Housing Crisis in the “Garden City of the East”
Sri Lanka's history of social housing offers models and warnings to the rest of the world.
We've Doubled The Content, Help Us Double The Donations
Thousands of subscriptions, 30 magazines, and three supplements later, the New Inquiry is committed to remaining ad and paywall free. It’s a decision that maintains…
Ms. America
Lana Del Rey's 'Merica is one with just as many symbols, but it requires far less cognitive dissonance.
Ms. America
A free supplement on Lana Del Rey
Terrifying Robot Update: Friday, July 11, 2014
The state loves robots, it puts them in the ocean and sends them into space, they hang out with Obama and they get drivers licenses, robots are cool and great and everybody loves them.
Found Poetry
A Tough Response at the Fun Time Beach cafe Controversial but fabulous, Israel does a good job It will be hard, complicated, and costly, And…
Ladyfans: A Fairy Tale of the World Cup
A modeling contract that sprang from a shot of a World Cup fan highlights the commodification of female fandom.
The History of Debate: James Baldwin Vs. William Buckley
James Baldwin and William Buckley debate whether "The American Dream is at the Expense of the American Negro."
No Life Stories
Big Data hopes to liberate us from the work of self-construction and justify mass surveillance in the process
Salvage, Without the Punk
Neither more nor less political than smearing neon paint on a machete.
Editors' Note, Vol. 30: Volume 30
Read together, the essays in this volume address the cardinal problems the New Inquiry attempts to grapple with.
An Audio Letter
The past crammed beneath our feet sings, the debt will not return.
Un(der)known Writers: Clarice Lispector
"I don't humanize animals because it's an offense—you must respect their nature—I am the one who animalizes myself."
Plantation Neoliberalism
Is an intense fixation on the present simply the best way to make slavery disappear?
Depthless Psychology
Why flatness? And why now?
Sunday Reading
YOU ARE FILLED WITH BEES
Bail Bloc 2.0
Our work on immigration, ICE, borders, and detention
Liquid Border
An excerpt from The Law of the Sea by Annalisa Camilli
United States v. Scott Daniel Warren
The criminalization of humanitarian aid at the border enacts a fantasy of desolate individuation. Scott Warren’s felony trial reiterates the necessity to keep reaching out.
Abolish the ICE Prison Complex
A recent Supreme Court decision reminds us that the law has no interest in lifting the veil that covers immigration prisons
Border Theories
What would it look like to put a power structure on trial? Interweaving visual narratives of the Mexico–United States border show the uneasy relation between objects and people.
Soft Borders
The soft patriotic trust in Canada's softly administered border is fully compatible with the logic of restriction.
Fash at Sea
The end of Defend Europe’s fascistic campaign to block migrants’ boats in the Mediterranean doesn’t mean the threat is over
Operation Streamline
The border’s dream is for undocumented immigrants to be its most reliable missionaries. But the immigrant who crosses the border is the affirmation of a life that transcends it.
In the Water
An immigrant in the water is a story or a lesson, but an immigrant on land is our responsibility--they might become our neighbor
Cross-Border Operations
It is no longer plausible to describe the state’s borders as geographically fixed or the state as distinguishable from capital or “markets.”
Empire Records
Guantánamo Diary's missing passages connect it with the US empire's deeper history of far-flung capture and detention networks