Is human life so awful that we should stop making more of it? Rhys Southan, writing in The New Inquiry, interrogates the antinatalist philosophy of David Benatar, who believes that humanity should stop reproducing once and for all. 

The New Inquiry is a cultural and literary criticism magazine, challenging the bourgeois press and its failure to reckon with reality.

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Life: Why Bother?

What do the words “radical” and “revolutionary” really mean today? Bobby London, writing in The New Inquiry, wonders if true socio-political change is possible, or if we simply reinforce what we already know, destroying each other along the way. 

Hurt People: the state cannot destroy us the way we destroy each other

At Tesla, everything feels like the future except for them. The factory workers often suffer injuries and work in unsafe conditions in order to meet demanding production quotas. Aaron Neiman, writing in The New Inquiry, studies the relationship between work and pain on Elon Musk’s technological frontier.

A pain in the back: the factory workers building Tesla's future

Carmen Petaccio, writing in The New Inquiry, wonders: what if the idea of a universal basic income was just a way for billionaires to appease the revolutionary potential of the poor? 

Universal basic bullshit

The Internet has delivered on its promise of a community for the blind. Jonathan Mosen, writing in The New Inquiry, reveals the digital world’s unseen power.

Out of sight: the online blind community

Theft might be wrong, but so is corporate greed. Charles Davis argues that it's okay to steal from the very rich.

Steal this article: why theft is just

The digital universe has created an obsession with things that are supremely analog, like sepia tints, token typewriters and camping trips. Nathan Jurgenson, writing in The New Inquiry, argues that this fetishization of real-life is mistaken, the digital world is real-life now. 