Lucky Number Seven
56 Up, the latest in a decades-long longitudinal study of a set of British kids as they age,
reveals the benefits of inhereited privilege and the limits of argument by anecdote.
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Essays & Reviews
Lombroso’s Ghost
The legal claim of entrapment sounds like a way to spare the innocent from overzealous lawmen, but the history of the defense reveals it’s more about the criminal than the crime
Just the Facts
Conspiracy theorists seem like the polar opposite of sober technocratic pundits favored in mainstream press. But they are not so different
Kenya’s Three Tribes
There are only three tribes in Kenya. The haves. The wanna-haves. The have-them-removed.
Features
TNI Vol. 14 Editorial Note: It’s Time
In this issue of the New Inquiry we look at Chinese time zones, The Clock, roofies, and more.
Police Mortality
Police Mortality is a Keystone Cops-flick for an era where police murders seem a near daily occurrence.
Manhood, Womanhood, And Their Mutual Interrelations
A selection of illustrations from the extremely bizarre Creative and Sexual Science, or, Manhood, Womanhood, and their Mutual Interrelations by O.S. Fowler
TNI A\V
Video Subscription Drive
Video Police Mortality
Video Protect and Serve
Video Unclear Holocaust
Audio After the Screening: This is Not a Film (Podcast)
&, Meanwhile
“a (dead) body that appears to look exactly like (a) woman is supposed to”
“a large black banner reading ‘Intimidate Rapists’”
“Put in enough coins and sex falls out”
“with the skin of a store stretched over it, so we don’t lose our minds”
“revulsion and guilt must have shivered across him when we called out to him in that stolen name”
“If only a description of people laughing could persuade us”
“the homosexual peyote”
“no legal issues whatsoever”
“people like me, namely White Nationalists who feel what I call ‘the burden of Hitler’”
“usually juggling up to four warlocks or mermen”
“Oscar is a job creator”
“feeling powerless and actually being powerless are not at all the same”
“domestic blackness rarely results in something like empathy”
“the unemployed mother-to-be and her husband, who is also out of work after a brief stint in the army”
“in-house artist at the Ecuadorian Embassy”
“talk in somber tones of the need to do something to stop the violence”
“the conditions under which literary modernism appeared now lie behind us”
“The best proof of ‘true love’ you can give”
“jilted lovers are dangerous and unpredictable”
“self-propulsion and flocking parameters were dominated by noise”
News
GIFest 2013 @ Downtown Community Television Center 2/23
Film as A Subversive Art @ Spectacle Theater 2/20
“What Was The Date” @ The Kitchen 2/25
Film as A Subversive Art @ Spectacle Theatre 1/31
Representing Dissent: Political Movements and Graphic Narrative @ CUNY Grad Center 2/15
Blogs
Sunday Reading
I link, therefore I am.
Triple-Decker Weekly, 51
Terms like “improbable” and “unlikely” are so ambiguous it may not be worth using them at all.
Beauty Blogosphere 3.8.13
“Mad Men” models, Manic Pixie Dream Persona, raw cosmetics, Anne Hateaway, and more.
The Day After Yesterday, Part 1: The Bad Omen
In which an omen, like a dead bird or one that’s totally faking it, is witnessed by Ben Affleck.