A new book on the political economy of shipping covers how the labor behind global supply chains has both transformed since post 9/11 securitization and remained brutally the same since shipping's earliest days.
“Sexuality is a murky realm of contradiction and ambivalence. It cannot always be understood by social models, which feminism, as an heir of nineteenth-century utilitarianism,…
Andy Warhol, Dennis Hopper, (1971) Anticipating the premier of Hopper's follow-up to Easy Rider, The Last Movie (1971), James Stevenson profiled the young director in…
Susan Sontag believed that intellectuals should, must, take political stands. She was active in the movement against the Vietnam War. She tried, with passion and…
Inspired by Saul Bellow's Humboldt's Gift, J. Bernstein asks as series of profound, some might say cosmic questions. To which R. Rosenfelt + M. Borkowski…
...courtesy of a 1972 NYRB article by Ellen Willis that I've just read, called "The Fantasy of the Perfect Lover" (subscribers only, unfortunately). Ultimately Willis…
Edmund Burke, “The Father of Modern Conservatism” On Saturday, (update: March 6th at 7pm), TNI will host a Conservative Thought Salon dedicated to exploring the conservative…
And his favorite word, his ultimate emotional eloquence, the great bell with which he summoned others to the loftiest feasts of the soul—it lured many…
Step inside the inboxes of two TNI editors as we debate the niceties of intellectual rhetoric… Once upon a time, Rachel wrote a post on TNI about George…
When Vietnamese refugees settled in Southern California they found its culture toxic to something they had always taken for granted, their family life. It’s a…
Bail Bloc 2.0
Our work on immigration, ICE, borders, and detention
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.
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.
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.
