Korea Under Ceasefire
The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea
Editors' Note: Vol. 43: The Daddy Issue
The knowledge of paternity is said to be the origin of human society as we know it: that is, born of women's labor but held in men's name.
Announcing Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Francisco Salas Pérez, and Miranda Trimmier
We are thrilled to welcome the newest contributing editors to join the New Inquiry team: Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Francisco Salas Pérez, and Miranda Trimmier. Kameelah…
Sex Appeal, Beauty, and Normalcy: Rachel Hills' "The Sex Myth"
Desirability is not the same as desire itself.
Sunday Reading
How do we know that Cecil Rhodes was reincarnated in that lion, though
The Untrustworthy Reader
Renata Adler the novelist trusts her readers to sift detail, make inferences, read against the grain of the narrative voice.
Dry Bones Breathe
Recovering writers like Henry Dumas from oblivion is a way to alter black destiny.
Know Your Product
Social media caters to the pleasure of being both product and consumer
News Flash: Beauty Customers Aren't Suckers
Cosmetics ads' science claims don't hold up, and they don't need to. They just need to nudge us over the border of where hope and possibility meet.
Beach Generation
Cheap air travel and freedom of movement within the EU are bound up with the violent policing of its borders
Under the Rainbow
Modern queer politics forged itself against Blackness. Where will it go next?
Improving on Silence
Silence is simply not an option. This is everybody's business.
Fitted
Activity trackers train users to love lives that are all work
Sunday Reading
Hello, I hope these are amusing/instructive.
The Mirror Stage
A classic graphic novel expresses a contradiction at the heart of sexuality
We Are All Gawker Now
Who the hell knows what is really happening at Gawker, and who the hell cares? Answer: Gawker and Gawker. Which is the interesting thing to…
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