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How We Failed Aaron Swartzby Tim Wu

The great innovators almost always operate at the edge. Today, our laws are pushing deviant geniuses like Swartz off of it…
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Experienceby Tessa Hadley

I’d never have picked Julian out as a sensuous type if I hadn’t read Hana’s diary. And yet, because of the secret things I knew about him, I was fixated…
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