The Idealist

Aaron Swartz at a Boston Wiki Meetup on Aug. 19, 2009 Courtesy of Sage Ross/Flickr/Wikimedia Commons On Jan. 4, 2013, Aaron Swartz woke up in an excellent mood. “He turned to me,” recalls his girlfriend Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, “and said, apropos of nothing, ‘This is going to be a great year.’ ” Swartz had reason to feel optimistic. For a year and a half, he’d been under indictment for wire a