Wes Enzinna
News
Matthew Power, 1974–2014
On Monday, Men's Journal reporter Matthew Power died in Uganda. When I heard the terrible news, I thought of an obituary Matt had written for a mutual friend of ours years earlier: "Even to write in the past tense seems strange," he wrote. "It...
Wes Enzinna
3.12.14
The Hot Box Issue
Wave of Immolation
It's not every day that you meet someone who has set himself on fire. One reason for this is because it's pretty much the most awful and insane thing imaginable. On a recent trip to Bulgaria, I met not one but two people who had survived suicide...
Wes Enzinna
12.24.13
The What Da Fug You Lookin’ At Issue
Unaccompanied Miners - Bolivia's Cerro Rico Mine
Jackson and I were on a mission to find child miners. Jackson was nervous, with good reason—sixty kids died from cave-ins and other accidents in the Cerro Rico in 2008 alone. In a country as poor as Bolivia, just because tourists—or children—are...
Wes Enzinna
11.18.13
The World Hates You Issue
Here Comes the White-Power Safety Patrol
Matthew has formed a group called the White Student Union that advocates for “persons of European heritage”—what most of us call “white people.” It comes as a surprise to the African American students who feel targeted by the night patrols Matthew...
Wes Enzinna
5.21.13
Photo
The Polaroid Kidd Has a Photo Show in NYC Today
Train-hopping photographer Mike Brodie is an authentic, unschooled genius, and his new book is a record of his years on the road. He estimates that he's covered 50,000 miles, and his photos are documents of what Woody Guthrie used to call "hard...
Wes Enzinna
3.7.13
News
The Destruction of Breezy Point
Two nights ago during Hurricane Sandy, while many New Yorkers were crying about having no internet, the people in Breezy Point, Queens, watched their neighborhood become a water-logged, flame-engulfed vision of hell.
Wes Enzinna
10.31.12