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Vol. 25 Editors’ Note: H8

By The New InquiryFebruary 5, 2014
“Those who hate you can’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself,” said not Martin Luther King Jr. or Gandhi but that gentle soul Richard Nixon...
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Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol. 25

By Michael SeidenbergJanuary 23, 2014
Some of the more skeptical out there might begin to wonder why they need advice for an end of time that doesn’t seem to be getting here.
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Vol. 24 Editors’ Note: War by Other Means

By The New InquiryJanuary 8, 2014
Sports lends itself to abstraction. A whole baseball game gracefully nestles into a box score; football and basketball playbooks look like charts for a free-jazz board game...
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Vol. 23 Editors’ Note: Shelter

By The New InquiryDecember 9, 2013
We are always a target, whether we feel the cross hairs on us or not. There are no shelters. There is no fortress...
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Vol. 22 Editors’ Note: Self-Help

By The New InquiryNovember 6, 2013
Happiness, fitness, long-life, wisdom, creativity: all these things have been just within reach since Marcus Aurelius. Yet, somehow, we don’t seem to be getting any better...
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Vol. 21 Editors’ Note: Witches

By The New InquiryOctober 7, 2013
“Witch” stands for all those unnamable shadow acts of disappearance and withdrawal, self-cultivation and self-medication that elude the social and sexual order...
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Vol. 20 Editors’ Note: Off-Brand

By The New InquirySeptember 4, 2013
We are told we must be clothed, and then that our clothes are not good enough...
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Vol. 19 Editors’ Note: “Art”

By The New InquiryAugust 7, 2013
Central to the project of contemporary art—the discourse about it and the market for it—is the question of what actually constitutes art this year, this week, in general.
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Vol. 18 Editors’ Note: Family Planning

By The New InquiryJuly 8, 2013
The family is less a haven in a heartless world than an arrangement that has focused efforts at social improvement on relationships supposedly spun of love and affection.
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Vol. 17 Editors’ Note: Rules of the Game

By The New InquiryJune 5, 2013
The ultimate game is revolution: new rules, no rules.
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Vol. 16 Editors’ Note: The World as We Know It

By The New InquiryMay 6, 2013
It's the rise of the world as we know it, and we feel terrified.
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Spring Break Forever

By The New InquiryApril 17, 2013
Presenting The New Inquiry's first free supplement, a pdf collection of eight critical essays on Harmony Korine's Disneyland dystopia Spring Breakers.
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Terrifying Robot Update!

By TNI AVMay 24, 2012
Hahaha, oh that tickles, stop climbing on me clothbot, hahaha, oh Clothbot, you’re the funniest, haha…wait, what is that, what is that you’ve got there…oh…
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Terrifying Robot Update!

By TNI AVMay 16, 2012
The good thing about the fact that I’ll never sleep again after watching this video is that I wont have nightmares where I’m trapped in…
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Terrifying Robot Update

By TNI AVMay 8, 2012
  “I love you deeply, as deeply as a synthetic intelligence can at this stage in technological evolution. And David, you are my father but…

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