The New Inquiry

I wrote for @newinquiry.bsky.social about the psycho-political agons of 90s sitcom neighbors like Kimmy Gibbler, Steve Urkel, and co.—why they showed up, why they were thrown out, and why they kept coming back. Give it a read!

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For the @newinquiry.bsky.social, I interviewed the brilliant
@lalehkhalili.bsky.social about her new book, The Corporeal Life of Seafaring

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A Thorn in the Occupier's Eye 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…

Now in TNI: a dispatch from Dahye, Lebanon, published in collaboration with The New York War Crimes thenewinquiry.com/a-thorn-in-t...

Seoul to Squeeze 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, or moon villages, because they seem to …

"South Korea is often lauded as a safe society... But much of the country’s tranquil middle-class environments—apartment towers, malls, and privately-owned parks—were constructed through violence and intimidation.“ thenewinquiry.com/seoul-to-squ...

"Health equity capture…hijacks health equity concepts, aesthetics, and language…for the purpose of posing the problem—in our case, the institutions and processes (like the weight loss industry) that create, prop up, or exist due to inequality—as the solution."

Health Equity Capture 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 of spinach leaves with three ounces of grilled skinless,…

"The public, reaching for life, for longevity, for survival among the fittest (as dictated by eugenics) has turned its eyes to its physique. Ozempic, to shareholders glee, arrived right on time." thenewinquiry.com/health-equit...

Health Equity Capture 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 of spinach leaves with three ounces of grilled skinless,…

Weight loss medications have expanded their reach through co-opting the language of social justice. thenewinquiry.com/health-equit...

Read @elpgerson.bsky.social in @newinquiry.bsky.social, on six years of Morena party rule under AMLO.

AMLO All Along 1917, in the wake of the Russian Revolution, Lenin was preoccupied with appointing the people that would run the government. The problem was that Lenin did not know much about what running the gove…

First post on BlueSky and it's a plug.

Wrote for @newinquiry.bsky.social about AMLO. I try to explain what Obradorismo actually is while critiquing his programmatic agenda, the opposition, and understanding AMLO's political success.

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AMLO All Along 1917, in the wake of the Russian Revolution, Lenin was preoccupied with appointing the people that would run the government. The problem was that Lenin did not know much about what running the gove…

"Obradorismo has been variously characterized with terms like left-wing populism and progressive nationalisms. These definitions are reductive, conjuring associations with other leaders or regimes that ultimately do not apply." thenewinquiry.com/amlo-all-alo...

This is Not a Simulation The simulation hypothesis reveals how the American liberal elite questions everything except the insufficiency of liberalism itself

"The months since the election of Donald Trump have played host to a brilliant array of liberal delusions, a collective delirium that has led the American center-left to question everything—literally everything—except its own flawed ideology." thenewinquiry.com/this-is-not-...

Whose Garbage Becomes The Archive? - an interview with Eunsong Kim Kim is a poet, writer, and Associate Professor of English at Northeastern University. Her new book, The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property, traces the history of US m…

sharing again an interview I did with the incredible Danielle Wu 💌✨

@newinquiry.bsky.social
@dukepress.bsky.social

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Maya 🖤

Excellent state theory: "for those who have convinced themselves ... that any discrepancy between appearance and action is a glitch rather than a symptom, reckoning with such discrepancies ... requires a recalibration of national shame, first, and state efficiency, second"

Spell-Check Nation Presidential claims to legitimacy have always been bound up in violence–so why do people continue to insist that Trump act more presidential?

"State functionality—the ability to run systems smoothly, but also to convince the public that the agents of such systems carry benevolent intent—has always concealed regimes of harm, and always to disastrous ends." thenewinquiry.com/spell-check-...

"Folk Etymologies" by Eleanor Stern for @newinquiry.bsky.social
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A thoughtful look at efforts to influence politics through language substitutions, and how they connect to other efforts to influence thought via language.

From “The Second Week” by the Palestinian Youth Movement thenewinquiry.com/the-second-w...

Palestinians in the West Bank are defending themselves from the apartheid regime’s nightly attack

Staff of Al-Shifa Hospital are struggling to bury the remains of at least 100 Palestinians murdered by the IOF

Kamal Adwan Hospital stops operations as fuel runs out

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🚨 A field source for Al-Mayadeen:
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Missile strikes target the American base at the "Conoco" oil field in northeastern Deir Ezzor, eastern Syria.

The popular resistance shelled the American base with 15 missiles that hit their targets, leading to violent explosions at the base in eastern Syria.

The Militia at the Center of the Darfur Genocide Kills Hundreds in Sudan Group that grew from infamous Janjaweed militia blamed for killing of about 800 people in refugee camp. ‘I couldn’t count the number of dead bodies.’

RSF and affiliated Sudanese-Arab militias have reportedly killed 800 in an ethnic cleansing campaign in Ardamata camp in West Darfur, home to tens of thousands who had already been displaced by the civil war.

Trump Leads in 5 Critical States as Voters Blast Biden, Times/Siena Poll Finds Voters in battleground states said they trusted Donald J. Trump over President Biden on the economy, foreign policy and immigration, as Mr. Biden’s multiracial base shows signs of fraying.

"Many voters said they trusted Donald Trump over President Biden on the economy, foreign policy and immigration, as Mr. Biden’s multiracial base frays."

www.nytimes.com/2023/11/05/u...

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 30: Nearly 10,000 people killed in Gaza as U.S. rejects ceasefire ... Hundreds of thousands protested in the Washington D.C. and around the world, calling for a ceasefire. Israel continues to target civilian infrastructure, using the “equivalent of two nuclear bombs,�...

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 30: Hundreds of thousands protested in the Washington D.C. and around the world, calling for a ceasefire. Israel continues to target civilian infrastructure, using the "equivalent of two nuclear bombs," says rights group.

Before October 7th, over 60% of Palestinians were moderately or severely food insecure.

It has ALWAYS been a deliberate tactic by the apartheid regime to keep Palestinians on the brink of starvation.

"The number of children reported killed in Gaza in just three weeks has surpassed the annual number of children killed across the world's conflict zones since 2019" Save the Children

BREAKING: @mekomit expose shows that the directive to deport 2.4 million #Palestinians out of occupied #Gaza and onto #Egypt and beyond has been officially endorsed by #Israel's Ministry of Intelligence on 13 October. A war crime in the making!

Israel's Ministry of Intelligence deportation directive outlines the four stages: 1.A call on Palestinian civilians to vacate north Gaza; 2.Sequential land operations from north to south; 3.Leaving routes open across Rafah; 4.Establishing "tent cities" in Sinai to resettle Palestinians in Egypt.

The last time American media said anything about Palestinian communities being ethnically cleansed from the West Bank, “only” two villages were displaced.

Now we are at at least 13.

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Tweet from Hurt CoPain: I need everyone to read this headline New Report: 91% of Gaza children suffer from PTSD after the Israeli attack Geneva - Nine out of ten children in the Gaza Strip suffer some form of conflict-related trauma after the Israeli military attack ended over a month ago,

It’s been said before but there is no “post-” for traumatized Palestinian children in Gaza. They are always in danger and so they can never establish the real foundation of safety recognized as the prerequisite for trauma recovery. “Israel” has trapped them in a kind of hell.

Israeli bombing turns Gaza into ‘ball of fire’ as blackout adds to distress Israeli ground troops battle Hamas fighters in Gaza as Israel carries out heaviest air raids and cuts communications.

Communications are still spotty at best, but from Al Jazeera:

Almost 400 Palestinians were murdered in the “safe zone” yesterday as Gaza was turned in a “ball of fire”

It took journalist Fares Akram 12 hours to find out 18 of his extended family was murdered.

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