Press about the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research:

“I think I’d rather stick to the text for now,” Kluchin said. - The New Yorker, “Night School”, August 6, 2012

“What transpired that night just may represent the future of higher education…”  - New York Magazine, “Bar Room U.“, April 1, 2012

“Unlike other alternative learning groups in New York, it has a quasi-university feel to it, with rigorous, graduate-seminar style study emphasized…” – New York Times, “The Stone” Blog, May 2, 2012

“But whereas these events lean toward entertainment and social lubrication… classes at the Brooklyn Institute feel more like rigorous graduate seminars. Difficult homework is assigned, class participation is strongly encouraged…” - Capital New York, “The Backroom Walter Benjamin: The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and its Serious Moonlight Scholars“, April 27, 2012

“The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research doesn’t hand out diplomas. Its instructors don’t give grades. It doesn’t have a building to call its own. No one there cares about your SAT score… What the Brooklyn Institute provides, it hopes, is a place for academics to supplement their pay while conducting research and teaching reasonably priced, high-level classes to adult students of all backgrounds. - Inside Higher Ed., “Old School Becomes New School“, April 17, 2012

“The new Brooklyn Institute for Social Research is bringing higher education to the local watering hole…” – Andrew Sullivan: The Dish, “Shots with Sartre“, April 7, 2012

 It’s hard to take a class on Freud if you’re not already matriculated at a four-year liberal arts college. But with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research—whose classes usually meet at Boerum Hill’s bar-restaurant Building on Bond—adults looking to study the humanities can join with like-minded neighbors and local scholars to do just that… - Brooklyn Magazine, ”Unorthodox Higher Ed in Boerum Hill“, June 1, 2012