Skip to content

The New Inquiry

modern scholarship

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Tumblr
  • Instagram
  • RSS
  • Subscribe
  • Essays & Reviews
  • Features
  • Blogs
  • Audio
  • Current Issue
  • Past Issues
  • Shop
  • About
  • Search
  • Login
  • Subscribe for $2
Essays & Reviews

Islamic Astropolitik

By Alicia IzharuddinJanuary 29, 2015
How Muslims make space for Islam in outer space
Essays & Reviews

Black Sun Rising

By A.M. GittlitzJanuary 28, 2015
Today’s New Right and techno-futurist circles are echoing the unorthodox beliefs of Nazi cosmologists.
Essays & Reviews

Cloudy Logic

By Robin JamesJanuary 27, 2015
Big data doesn’t forecast the future but remakes the present in the image of down-to-earth stereotypes.
Essays & Reviews

The Space NDN's Star Map

By Lou CornumJanuary 26, 2015
The creation story is a spaceship
Essays & Reviews

Why Do Stars Love the Stars?

By Adam ElenbaasJanuary 23, 2015
Celebrities and their astrologists practice an ancient psychological form of art.
Essays & Reviews

Beyond MLK

By Lorenzo RaymondJanuary 20, 2015
Selma depicts Martin Luther King as a hard-headed radical at odds with LBJ by 1964, but his radicalism only came later, after Ella Baker, the SNCC and the movement pulled him forward.
Essays & Reviews

Otherwise Movements

By Ashon CrawleyJanuary 19, 2015
Generalized unthought movement is about articulating a relation of difference.
Essays & Reviews

No Spin Zone

By Erik PetiguraJanuary 16, 2015
Telescopes are now discovering Earth-size planets throughout the galaxy, but an astronomer at Berkeley explains why that doesn’t mean they are habitable
Essays & Reviews

Past Perfecting

By Danielle EzzoJanuary 13, 2015
Retouching is not merely servant to photography but is an artistic medium in its own right
Essays & Reviews

The Data Sublime

By William DaviesJanuary 12, 2015
The sublime unknowability of Big Data lets us fall in love with our own domination.
Essays & Reviews

Sickness Unto Death

By Derek AyehJanuary 9, 2015
Atul Gawande’s newest book wagers that a new attitude toward mortality can help save American medicine
Essays & Reviews

Klein vs. Klein

By Out of the WoodsJanuary 7, 2015
This Changes Everything is a book capacious enough to allow Naomi Klein two positions at once.
Essays & Reviews

All The Wild Animals

By Sam KrissJanuary 6, 2015
In David Attenborough's latest BBC nature series Life Story, the animals play very human roles
Essays & Reviews

Taking Shit From Others

By Janani BalasubramanianJanuary 5, 2015
Recent FDA regulation of shit as a medical treatment brings to light the ambivalence of excrement
Essays & Reviews

The Failure of Bystander Intervention

By Lauren Chief Elk and Shaadi DevereauxDecember 23, 2014
Bystander intervention is less a weapon in the fight against sexual assault and more an evolved form of victim blaming.
Essays & Reviews

Circle Circle Dot Dot

By Yahdon IsraelDecember 22, 2014
Cooties, like racial identity, pass from body to body. But how can you protect yourself from a danger that looks like yourself?

Posts navigation

«Previous Posts 1 … 26 27 28 29 30 … 72 Next Posts»
  • Contact
  • Submit
  • Donate
  • About
  • Subscribe
  • Manage Subscription
  • Browse the Archive
  • Terms Of Use
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Tumblr
  • Instagram
  • RSS

Subscribe to Newsletter