There are four trillion bits coming at you, 99 percent of them are shit, and it’s too much work to do triage to decide.| The New Inquiry
A Story About American Music Festivals| The New Inquiry
Friday nights in the 1990s, the American family came under attack. Intruders penetrated the home: they stole food, lured children into moral decay, and made a mess of the place. But they weren’t th…| The New Inquiry
February 6, 2025 the leader of the Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) Lee Jae-myung spoke to the Economist and confirmed South Korea’s geopolitical dilemma. Lee had been cozying up to the US since ex-…| The New Inquiry
South Lebanon is a lesson in steadfastness — an obstinate and determined testament to the willingness of an indigenous people to confront their occupier and achieve absolute victory. Israel’s…| The New Inquiry
“The Nisha Chicken Salad” on Weight Watchers’s website bears little resemblance to the salad Nisha Godfrey went viral for in 2022. It is two cups…| The New Inquiry
Victor Sebastyen, Lenin, Pantheon 2017, 363. In 1917, in the wake of the Russian Revolution, Lenin was preoccupied with appointing the people that would run…| The New Inquiry
The Seoul neighborhood of Bogwang-dong sits on a steep hill rising over the Han River. In Korean, neighborhoods built on hazardous slopes are called dal-dongnae,…| The New Inquiry
Eunsong Kim, The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property. Duke University Press Books, 2024. 328 pages. Eunsong Kim is a poet, writer, and…| The New Inquiry
It feels impossible to sit and write amidst the constant grief and urgency demanded in this ongoing genocide. Yet we feel compelled to write—compelled to…| The New Inquiry
October 7, 2024—Today, we can expect a parade of treacly sycophantism, brazen sociopathy, and humanist admonishment. They write for their mark, the reader they assume…| The New Inquiry
It is difficult to overstate the centrality of shipping to contemporary capitalism. Indeed, without shipping, it is difficult to imagine the birth of capitalism at…| The New Inquiry
Donald Trump foments hope in the exercise of his emotional freedom.| The New Inquiry
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…| The New Inquiry
There’s nothing there already| The New Inquiry
The right to a free and united Palestine from the river to the sea, the right of return, and the right to live in dignity under a just and lasting peace.| The New Inquiry