We have no Lingua Franca

Lost in the Internet Archive

The fabulous writer Caleb Crain led me down a rabbit hole when he posted this:

Nostalgia for Lingua Franca, the best “magazine of ideas” of the last half century (I say, rounding down, being too lazy to consider if there might have been a better one over the past century) is common amongst my cohort. “Ah, Lingua Franca! It was the best! So sad it didn't…