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

Our Writers

Kate AronoffClimate & EnergyApocalypse Soon
Matt FordLaw & The CourtsThe Soapbox
Melissa Gira GrantLGBTQ RightsThe Soapbox
Jason LinkinsPower & PlutocracyThe Soapbox
Timothy NoahPolitics & EconomyThe Soapbox
Tori OttenBreaking NewsThe Ticker
Grace SegersCongress & ElectionsThe Soapbox
Walter ShapiroPolitics & CampaignsThe Soapbox
Alex ShephardPolitics & MediaThe Soapbox
Heather Souvaine HornClimate ChangeApocalypse Soon
Daniel StraussPolitics & CampaignsThe Soapbox
Prem ThakkerBreaking NewsThe Ticker
Michael TomaskyPolitics & IdeasThe Soapbox
About The New Republic’s history