Hillbilly Ethnography
A well-meaning, best-selling memoir promotes dangerous myths about racial determinism and racial innocence that form the bedrock of
Dans le Rouge
In French, the phrase is 'Carrément dans le rouge,' meaning 'squarely in debt.' That’s why hundreds of thousands of students and union members involved in Quebec’s education strike have taken to pinning little red squares of cloth to their clothes.
Five Questions with Pierre Joris
Courage is whatever.
Have you read Stendhal?
Our misfortunes, Doctor, they come from wrong ideas we have about what happens to us.
Beauty Blogosphere 6.15.12
NBA stripper heels, Obama's moisturizing plan, Occupy Fashion, and Gisele's search in the slums for Brazil's next top model.
Spies Mixtape
In conjunction with TNI Magazine #5, Spies, The New Inquiry A/V presents the Spies! Playlist, featuring Friends, Japandroids, The Fall, Zebra Katz and more.
The Ways We Don’t Talk About Wealth
Dollar sign by Maximus Chatsky By the end of 2012, I will most likely have made just shy of a million dollars in three years.…
Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse...
"For it is only in company that eating is done justice..."
Strangers in a Strange Land
Religious intolerance can take subtle forms in both the personal and political worlds.
Spook'd
The New Inquiry's Malcolm Harris and The Los Angeles Review of Books' Evan Kindley talked with Spook Magazine's one-man editorial team Jason Parham about the new publication's founding, goals, and forthcoming first issue.
Field Notes on Fashion and Occupy (Part One)
Fashion is endowed with the potential to inform a political reality because fashion comes from people. The way people self-organize is always impacted by the external expression of social and political relationships, between police/denizen, publication/reader, store owner/consumer, designer/industry.
Not by Bread-and-Marg Alone
Unhealthy eating habits don't develop as a result of instinct; they have to be learned -- and a processed-food industry stands ready to teach them.
Wes Anderson's Arrested Development
He has his critics, but it's lonely not to fall in love with Wes Anderson.
Sunday Reading
It's Sunday in Bangelore.
Our Man in Great Neck
An American grandparent recalls infiltrating the Soviet Union disguised as an ordinary tourist from Long Island.
Beauty Blogosphere 6.8.12
Male body image, NASA beauty products, and devastating accusations that the Miss USA pageant is based on something other than "high moral character."
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