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.
Bun of Contention
"The people will never listen to reason on the subject of dear bread."
Clamor and Roar
It is the most capable, among us, of disturbing the enemy’s mood and his comfort
Speak/Now
Two developments of the past few years call for the re-opening this discussion of the relationship between feminist politics and the referentiality of language: the feminist blogosphere and the lyrics of Taylor Swift.
"Venice drowning! Venice drowning! Venice drowning!"
In which Snake Plissken discovers something rather queer about both mermaids and what lies far, far beneath Venice.
Subscription Drive
During the five weeks from November 13 to December 20, we at The New Inquiry are doing something we almost never do: asking you, our beloved readers, for money. $2 to be exact. Here’s why...
The Young Mr. Lincoln
Since he wants so desperately to be nothing more than a humble man of the people, the movie functions as one long demonstration that no such thing as “the people” exists.
Domestically Minded
A place to hang your hat ... and feed your head
The Anti-Family
MTV’s Teen Mom presents teen motherhood not as a threat to the normal structures of everyday life, but as our new social reality. What it doesn’t get to is that this is a good thing
Show and Tell @ Ace Hotel 11/13
THE DANCE CARTEL have been performing their pomo-pomo pop carnival ONTHEFLOOR production for four months now to a packed house at the Ace Hotel. We love…
On Veterans Day
Aversion, deadening, patience, cynicms, hatred, weariness, reluctance: These photos of soldiers before, during, and after their tours of Afghanistan reflect something more complex than a mere loss of innocence.
Technicolor Tehran
Every news feed item and broadcast want you to forget about the life and activity teeming there.
Sunday Reading
Sunday In The Park With Great Reading
Theory Porn
A review of Tamara Faith Berger's complex erotic novel Maidenhead.
Beauty Blogosphere 11.9.12
Cake makeup, Janelle Monáe's "uniform," vigilante justice for street harassment, and makeup bars.
"I am exercising my state and federal constitutional rights including the 1st, 4th and 5th amendments."
P: Do you know a man named ____________ (name redacted)?
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