THE NEW INQUIRY

MAY 16. 2024

“Set the terms of your struggle: ” The Cal Poly Humboldt Commune Speaks

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…

MAY 10. 2024

From harlem to palestine: globalize the intifada

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…

MARCH 27. 2024

The Job of Consent

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…

MARCH 11. 2024

When It Takes Root in the Heart: A Conversation with Fady Joudah

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…