The New Inquiry

@newinquiry · joined 23 Dec 2009

modern scholarship

45 968Followers

1 550Following

20 180Posts total

16.1KViews on collected posts

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The New Inquiry@newinquiry4 Mar

On the anniversary of the first viral social media campaign for military intervention, Andrew Lee reflects on Kony 2012 https://t.co/5oDJtciNBC 1.4K views · 8 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

The New Inquiry@newinquiry21 Jan

At the outset of AMC’s show Hoarders, hoarding was classified as a symptom of obsessive-compulsive disorder. By the end of its run, the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual had graduated it to a condition all of its own. https://t.co/4ExP6YVvbL 1.5K views · 9 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

The New Inquiry@newinquiry20 Jan

To be poor in the United States is in some ways like being poor anywhere else, but it is exceptional in that, thanks to the efforts of the good people of Dhaka and Juarez and Shenzhen, you can also accumulate an immense volume of stuf https://t.co/4ExP6YVvbL 7.6K views · 93 likes · 14 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

The New Inquiry@newinquiry20 Jan

The award-winning and record-breaking A&E reality show Hoarders shows how the arc of American empire bends towards the garbage bin https://t.co/4ExP6YVvbL 1.8K views · 13 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

The New Inquiry@newinquiry25 Nov 2025

"The Grimaldi boarding house stands in for the repressive, quasi-carceral structures of both the Italian Fascist state and the Catholic Church" 643 views · 2 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

The New Inquiry@newinquiry24 Nov 2025

"De Céspedes’ writing has lots of plot, which makes you want to keep turning the page; but unlike Ferrante, and more like Natalia Ginzburg, the narrative is lean, the imagery evocative but minimal. Appropriately, perhaps, for an author who went on to pen an advice column" 1.2K views · 3 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

The New Inquiry@newinquiry24 Nov 2025

Once banned by Mussolini, Alba De Céspedes' debut novel, There’s No Turning Back (Nessuna Torno Indietro, 1938), is out now under a new translation by Ann Goldstein, best known for her translations of Elena Ferrante's novels https://t.co/RugfL7eM0W 2.1K views · 6 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

2.1K24 Nov

1.2K

64325 Nov

1.8K20 Jan

7.6K

1.5K21 Jan

1.4K4 Mar

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.39%24 Nov

0.43%

0.47%25 Nov

0.91%20 Jan

1.41%

0.68%21 Jan

0.79%4 Mar

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views.

What the audience does

Likes54.7%134 in total

Reposts9.8%24 in total

Replies0.8%2 in total

Bookmarks34.7%85 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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