revolution in education! A resuscitation of the university mission! To happen in, of all places, not the pompous old northeast or the debauched West Coast, not New York or California but the countr…

Affluent white havens are not models of accountability

The New Inquiry is pleased to announce the launch of White Collar Crime Risk Zones, a predictive policing application that targets white collar crime. View the project online here. White Collar Cri…

An excerpt from Health Communism (2022)

  Since 2020, over 400 bills have been proposed at the state level that eliminate or ban trans people from accessing public life, education, and gender-affirming care. Historian Jules Gill-Pet…

Stated disavowal of their own bias doesn’t account for how liberals rhetorically shelter political violence

The New Inquiry is pleased to announce the launch of Bail Bloc, a desktop application that gets people out of jail.

Though it is the subtext of savagery that animates narratives around witches, white women who take up the mantle of witch magic rarely understand themselves to be engaging in Indian or savage play

This piece has been adapted from Covid Year Three, an episode of Death Panel released earlier this month. It presents an incomplete timeline of the sociological production of the end of the pandemi…

The following piece presents an incomplete timeline of the sociological production of the end of the pandemic over the last year. In Part I, we look at the way elected officials and the press were …

Puerto Rico’s uprising and the instrumentalization of Lin-Manuel Miranda

Fady Joudah’s poems are exquisite yet ungovernable, rebelliously innovative yet attuned to a broad range of traditions. They spoke to me long before I had the pleasure of meeting their author or th…

Heterosexuality is nobody’s personal problem.

For most of America’s history, one of the most righteous anti-white supremacist tactics available was looting.

White American nostalgia is neurotically fixated on social constructions that are imagined dead even as they become stronger, as evidenced by the twin histories of the mall and the Midwest

don’t need any convincing to hate their jobs—their jobs do that for them. Like hating the police, hating your job is one of the most beautiful and natural things you can do, which is why popular cu…

This interview was edited for clarity and length and a shorter version originally appeared in the print edition of The New York War Crimes. The New York War Crimes: Tell us about the first day of t…

TED talks are the Urban Outfitters of the ideas world

Streaming Services is a new blog on the music Industry

How chart manipulation is becoming the default marketing strategy of reactionaries

The point of all things should be their dissolution

Triage and the consultant-ethicist in for-profit healthcare

Puerto Rico’s uprising and the instrumentalization of Lin-Manuel Miranda

I’ve been thinking about record clubs lately. Do you remember those? If not, they were these mail-order services that you could buy CDs from in the eighties and nineties. If you do remember t…

An excerpt from Zoé Samudzi and William C. Anderson's new book, As Black as Resistance, examines diasporic relationships to land.

Every Korean person I know who has died has died during the Korean War

Land acknowledgments as acts of institutional inclusion obscure the antagonism that follows from genocide

The end of the last remaining Covid protections deepens the categorical exclusion of the vulnerable.

In the absence of the tax dollars city governments rely on, American cities like Baltimore are now funding themselves by fining the poor instead of taxing the rich.

Power shows its ugliest tentacles most clearly in the figures of the predator and the jokester

There are, broadly, two kinds of structural lonelinesses. One is the benign loneliness of the socially alienated, the other the malignant melancholy of the erstwhile master.

This piece has been adapted from Covid Year Three, an episode of Death Panel released earlier this month. It presents an incomplete timeline of the sociological production of the end of the pandemi…

gives me great pleasure, as well as relief, that The New Inquiry has agreed to republish this landmark essay. For a while now, strangers have been sending me emails, on average, every month, asking…

An interview with Lauren Berlant

is the story of the Palestinian people. It is a story of displacement and refugeehood, of imprisonment at the hands of a foreign occupier. But, most importantly, it is a story of sumud (steadfastne…

Fan fiction is and always has been an act of care, which is to say, a genuine kind of criticism.

do we free millions of people currently caged in prisons and jails in the United States? As an abolitionist, who believes that we must create the conditions for dismantling prisons, police, and sur…

In a recent newsletter entry, Danny Lavery wrote, “The art of masculine withholding is designed to collapse; the collapse is the point.” Perhaps one way to define cis and trans masculinity against …

When, in 1963, Samuel Beckett endorsed “Playwrights Against Apartheid,” a statement instructing the signers’ literary agents to refuse performance rights in segregated theaters, he made public his …

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Parasitic governance, as a modality of the new racial capitalism, uses five primary techniques: financial states of exception, automated processing, extraction and looting, confinement, and gratuit...

A cryptocurrency scheme against bail—and ICE.

Black man died on my feed. I didn’t know who Philando Castile was until July 6, 2016. Castile was in his car with his girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, and her four-year-old daughter, when he was fatal…

In the early morning of April 30, 2024, we liberated Hamilton Hall at Columbia University. Nearly two weeks earlier, hundreds of people had constructed the Gaza Solidarity Encampment on Butler Lawn…

Comedians like Tina Fey pretend to be plain to avoid the trap of being dismissed as being too pretty to be funny. This can spill over into a slut-shaming tendency that belies their faux feminism

People are making the connection between the system that we have as a whole and the system of policing.

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

hooks considered personal confession as the beginning, not the end

  Since 2020, over 400 bills have been proposed at the state level that eliminate or ban trans people from accessing public life, education, and gender-affirming care. Historian Jules Gill-Pet…

The continued assault on public sexuality and LGBT life in the United States manifests not only as individualized physical violence against trans, gender-nonconforming, and visibly queer people, bu…

An interview with Nick Estes about his new book, Our History is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance

Silicon Valley’s techtopian libertarianism points to a disruptive left fascism for the 21st century

People are making the connection between the system that we have as a whole and the system of policing.

South African students: We see you. We hear you. We stand with you.

think about The Zone of Interest (2023) while I am making my kids’ lunches, running their baths, folding laundry. Similar domestic routines make up much of the film’s action, the center of its stud…

The 2.2 million people currently incarcerated in the United States exist in a state of perpetual vulnerability to unchecked administrative power.

think about The Zone of Interest (2023) while I am making my kids’ lunches, running their baths, folding laundry. Similar domestic routines make up much of the film’s action, the center of its stud…

The point of all things should be their dissolution

sex as elsewhere, consent is asked to do a lot. It is a kind of moral magic, legal theorist Heidi Hurd has suggested, that makes all kinds of unthinkable incursions permissible, from fondling and p…

Samuel R. Delany’s DARK REFLECTIONS and the Racial Politics of Literary Awards