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as a barometer of the zeitgeist of the era. Its often deliberately provocative editorial reflected
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and defended the invasion of Iraq in its pages. He pursued disparate individual projects through his and
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magazine was solidly profitable. Its three-year-old online business, now renamed Wired
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posited a counterfactual history: instead of resigning during the
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in Italy were among the first to pinpoint the war's turning point, when the mujahideen first put the
Russians on the defensive that was ultimately to push them out of Afghanistan.
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as co-author with Stan Lehr of "Libertarianism, The New Right Credo," one of the first articles about the emerging Libertarian movement. In 1974, he wrote a novel called
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560:"Columbia: Louis Rossetto '71 Goes from Wired to Chocolate"
508:"A conversation with Wired Magazine founder Louis Rossetto"
459:"Digerati: The Buccaneer: Louis Rossetto" by John Brockman
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