What is n+1 for?

n+1, the Vampire Weekend of political journals, has published a lengthy consideration of the current state of the media. It’s good, I think, worth reading. Appearing under the byline of “The Editors,” one of the dumbest enduring affectations of media, the piece is headlined “The New New Reading Environment.” No word on the writing environment, from this group of writers. This strangely passive perspective is shared by the piece; its gently rambling, gratingly-bemused consideration of the state of the newsmedia seems to have no place for n+1 itself or its progeny. And this, I think, has always been part of n+1’s bag. Jesus said that we should be in the world but not of it, while the editors at n+1 seem to yearn to be of the media but not in it.