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Aaron Swartz
December 29, 2015
Malcolm Harris
Reading Everything Aaron Swartz Wrote
A new posthumous collection of Swartz's work shows his range as a scholar and intellectual.
February 6, 2014
Simon van Zuylen-Wood
Larry Lessig, Off the Grid
The superstar law professor is marching across New Hampshire to save democracy. Are you with him?
February 25, 2013
Noam Scheiber
So Open It Hurts
What the Internet did to Aaron Swartz
February 14, 2013
Noam Scheiber
The Inside Story of Why Aaron Swartz Broke Into MIT and JSTOR
The Italian retreat that radicalized the Internet prodigy

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