Another Four Miles

“Rather than everyone looking up to the pulpit of The New York Times, what we have much more of is individuals, people with millions of followers —like PewDiePie, who has more reach on YouTube than any brand or corporation…Nobody really knows where to look. There’s nobody at the front, and it seems like we have this cacophony of noise, and as a res... See more

The internet has moved seamlessly into the interstices of this situation, redistributing our minimum of free time into unsatisfying micro-installments, spread throughout the day. In the absence of time to physically and politically engage with our community the way many of us want to, the internet provides a cheap substitute: it gives us brief mome

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The internet is also in large part inextricable from life’s pleasures: our friends, our families, our communities, our pursuits of happiness, and—sometimes, if we’re lucky—our work. In part out of a desire to preserve what’s worthwhile from the decay that surrounds it, I’ve been thinking about five intersecting problems: first, how the internet is

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