The New Inquiry

A Mask and A Target Cart: Minneapolis Riots

By Aren AizuraMay 30, 2020

The liberal attachment to previous movements as peaceful, nonviolent, and respectable obscures the historical efficacy of riots, blockades, and looting as legitimate forms of revolt.

The Austerity Kitchen

Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of April 12, 2020)

By Christine BaumgarthuberApril 14, 2020

The perils of being a farmworker, bacon shortages, and why your chocolate bunny is hollow.

Shines Like Gold

Was his help inshored in the Stork and Pelican against bungelars, flu and third risk parties?

By imp kerrApril 13, 2020

The virus seems to have binary properties: not very contageous under most circumstances, but highly contagious in others.

Essays & Reviews, Features

Just Play

By Josh MyersApril 13, 2020

Ruminations on the themes of McCoy Tyner’s life on the occasion of his passing

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Vol. 74 | April 2020

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Features

Trespassing Horizons

By Sandra GöbelApril 11, 2020

Reflections on cybernetics as an ideology of organized oblivion

Shines Like Gold

Zarathustra descended alone from the mountains, encountering no one

By imp kerrApril 9, 2020

The Best Hopes for a Coronavirus Drug Researchers modelling the spread of the coronavirus emphasise the importance of avoiding busy indoor spaces Why Does the…

The Austerity Kitchen

Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of April 7, 2020)

By Christine BaumgarthuberApril 7, 2020

Another looming zoonotic pandemic, food maldistribution woes, and tons upon tons of rotting produce.

Shines Like Gold

‘there is light somewhere. it may not be much light but it beats the darkness.’ –Charles Bukowski

By imp kerrApril 7, 2020

How will we know when to reopen the country?

Shines Like Gold

The World vs. SARS-CoV-2, 4/6

By imp kerrApril 5, 2020

This virus cannot go from person to person that easily. It needs us to be close. It needs us to be within 6 feet. If we just distance ourselves, this virus can't sustain itself and it will go out.

Shines Like Gold

The World vs. SARS-CoV-2, 4/3

By imp kerrApril 3, 2020

Most experts agree that wearing a face mask can stop some virus-laden watery droplets that are thought to be a main coronavirus vector and are…

Shines Like Gold

The World vs. SARS-CoV-2, 4/1

By imp kerrApril 1, 2020

Data show that COVID-19 is now the No. 3 leading cause of daily deaths in the U.S. China Concealed Extent of Virus Outbreak, U.S. Intelligence…

Features

Life on Autopilot

By Sara Black McCullochApril 1, 2020

An interview with Anna Wiener, author of Uncanny Valley, a memoir about the tech-bro universe’s notions of progress

The Austerity Kitchen

Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of March 29, 2020)

By Christine BaumgarthuberMarch 30, 2020

A looming kibble crisis, food stores for tight budgets, and the wisdom of victory gardens.

Shines Like Gold

The World vs. SARS-CoV-2

By imp kerrMarch 29, 2020

I said, ‘You know, we don’t have a valid process for replacing House members if we’re all killed by a terrorist attack.’ He said, ‘What do I care? I’ll be dead.’

Essays & Reviews

Class Consciousness for American Doctors

By Karim SariahmedMarch 27, 2020

Professionalism is the ideological terrain on which medicine’s culture interacts with its class politics

Features

RENT STRIKE 2020

By Nana YaaMarch 26, 2020

A RESOURCE LIST

Bail Bloc 2.0

Our work on immigration, ICE, borders, and detention

Features

Liquid Border

By Annalisa Camilli and Eleanor PaynterAugust 20, 2019

An excerpt from The Law of the Sea by Annalisa Camilli

Features

United States v. Scott Daniel Warren

By Liz KinnamonJune 27, 2019

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.

Essays & Reviews

Abolish the ICE Prison Complex

By Cesar Cuauhtemoc Garcia HernandezMay 16, 2018

A recent Supreme Court decision reminds us that the law has no interest in lifting the veil that covers immigration prisons

Essays & Reviews, Features

Border Theories

By Marcos Santiago GonsalezNovember 13, 2017

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.

Essays & Reviews

Soft Borders

By Jack GrossSeptember 15, 2017

The soft patriotic trust in Canada's softly administered border is fully compatible with the logic of restriction.

Essays & Reviews

Fash at Sea

By Mohammed Harun ArsalaiSeptember 15, 2017

The end of Defend Europe’s fascistic campaign to block migrants’ boats in the Mediterranean doesn’t mean the threat is over

Essays & Reviews

Operation Streamline

By Brandon ShimodaMay 3, 2017

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.