Korea Under Ceasefire
The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea
Memories of a Penitent Heart @ Rox Gallery
We are sponsoring an event to celebrate contributor Cecilia Aldarondo's film, Memories of a Penitent Heart. In Conjunction with Rox's Current Exhibition POLISH Featuring Over…
Two Tears for Suboxone
Why is the addiction-recovery world so adamantly against a pill that helps users kick heroin?
Fat and Happy—and Loved
"It was never guys' fault for not liking me. It was fat's fault." Part II of a series on bodies and relationships.
No Man’s Land
Lying outside either state’s claims to sovereignty, the border zone both challenges and defines the legal conception of the state.
Vinyl re-enchantment
I can't separate buying records from enjoying them
Radish Malorum
Tolstoy's take on the "guns versus butter" problem
Queens Live @ The Kitchen
The New Inquiry presents a live version of issue no. 29, Queens. The evening includes presentations and performances by Alexis Blair Penney, Sarah Nicole Prickett, Derica Shields, and Hannah Black. Jarvis…
The Will to Wall
What is the work that walls do in a world of staggering inequality?
"Surveillant anxiety" and exceptional conformity
Potential problems with a political strategy of desubjectivation
Ayesha Siddiqi is Editor in Chief
An announcement from our new Editor in Chief: The New Inquiry's staff has distinguished itself through their exploration of ideas removed from the pretensions of…
Un(der)seen Cinema: Grin Without a Cat
Chris Marker's film essay A Grin Without a Cat traces the victories and defeats of the communist struggle, from 1965-1977
Comfortably Worn: Review of "The Worn Archive"
"The Worn Archive" proves that thinking highly of your readers makes for a better fashion magazine.
Vapor Eyes
E-cigarettes are social consumption, not private vice. They keep us addicted not so much to nicotine as to each other
Sunday Reading
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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