No Man Righteous
...emptiness that derives from a culture that sends perennial mixed messages about “doing your own thing” and “being cool.” These slangy phrases vulgarize the ideal of self-realization, which consumerism reduces...
Sunday Reading!
...Shut Up, Jonathan Franzen The Tuareg Uprising in Northern Mali 1789, 1979, and all that… How to Date a Wall Street Man (Continued) Why Foreign Bestsellers Often Fail in Japan....
After the Screening: This is Not a Film (Podcast)
...director Patrick Harrison discuss the film as they walk through the streets of New York immediately upon leaving the screening. [audio:http://thenewinquiry.com/app/uploads/2012/06/ThisIsNotAMoviePodcast.mp3|titles=After the Screening: This is Not a Film] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpHGu8HLK6s...
Freedom Industry
...American Water Company has advised residents of nine state counties not to drink or bathe in their running water. "I can’t tell you that the water is unsafe, but I...
A Message from the Trayvon Martin Organizing Committee
...and legal fund. Our comrades have had our backs. It's time to have theirs. Donate here. Sincerely, Members of the Trayvon Martin Organizing Committee - NYC https://www.facebook.com/tmocnyc @TMOCNYC [email protected]...
Chinua Achebe, No Longer At Ease
...being killed by what Nigeria had become. He would spend the rest of his life in the United States, where he would teach at Bard College, and then Brown; he...
African Poetry: Hope Wabuke
...in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound; I grant I never...
Seoul to Squeeze
Speculative capital will soon destroy one of the South Korean capital’s most vibrant and diverse working-class neighborhoods.
Whirlpool of the Masses
The biopolitical response to COVID extends the reactionary orientalism that characterized the 1865 cholera outbreak in Mecca
Sunday Reading
...art from India “Practice resurrection.” ReclaimUC: The family that primitive accumulates together, stays together. Will UC Berkeley occupiers get justice? The impact of budget cuts on California's community colleges A...
Lonely Highways in the Land of Jail
...show inspired Crystal Gayle to record “Midnight in the Desert,” which ended up in heavy rotation on the show as bumper music: Midnight in the desert and we’re listenin’ to...
We Were Promised Hot Tubs
...and that being grown up is one compromise, one sellout, one dreary responsibility after another. In fact, it's hard to think of anything in contemporary culture that celebrates adulthood today...
Sunday Reading
...Innocent Man? Delusions of the Democrats The Limits of Alternative Africas Why I Left United Airlines Chinese characters and eyesight ReclaimUC: "Predictable" The University of California's failed funding model "The...
Sunday Reading
...Being-in-the-world Miguel James, Against the Police ReclaimUC: The college trap that keeps people poor Why is my curriculum white? Color-blind racism in the push to repeal affirmative action in higher...
We Mock What We Don't Understand
...pick up what you can along the way through life without anyone specifically trying to teach you anything useful. The action of Spies Like Us hinges on this theme. Fitz-Hume...
All The Hungry Children
...to quibble over such details? If these songs were an invitation to compassion, the surprise was that this invitation was made in the most abstract of idioms. If we were...