Korea Under Ceasefire
The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea
The Oakland Raiders
While the housing markets of many post-industrial cities are still suffering, Oakland is absorbing the hopes, dreams, and dollars of a California tech boom that won’t be confined to San Francisco and Silicon Valley
Sunday Reading
We Are All the Polar Vortex Now.
Everything is a Target—Full Text of Interview with Peter Galison
There are no shelters. There is no fortress.
True Sailing Is Dead
When the still sea conspires an armor.
Women Cuddling Animals
Gentle women and wild animals are linked in myth and fable, fashion photography and pornography, pulp art and fine art; men hunt wild animals, and women cuddle them
Personal Ads
In an online milieu where everyone markets themselves, net artists have made selling out its own medium
The Collected Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times Vol. 2
The end is nigh, but at least we made it to 2014. Download the 2nd Annual Collected End Times for free!
The Year of Risk
“Inspiration needs the ground / of dissatisfaction,” you write / On the back of an airline magazine.
Envoi
"This has been a good year." Or, "This has been a bad year, right?"
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol. 24
When the lighter was invented, people did not abandon matches, and when the ever popular vibrator popped on the scene, no one made a case for getting rid of the penis. Well, some people did
America is Big
You know, a lot of people don't realize it, but America is actually very large when you compare it to all the other continents. …
The Postmodernity of Big Data
In addressing the insecurities of postmodern thought, Big Data falls prey to some of the same issues of interpretation
Five Questions with Harryette Mullen
I belong to myself.
Sunday Reading
2013 is Over (If You Want It)
Top 10 of 2013
We're proud to present the 10 most popular articles The New Inquiry published this year.
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