Ken­neth R. Rosen has writ­ten for The New York­er, The New York Times Mag­a­zine, VQR, and The Atlantic. He is a con­tribut­ing writer at WIRED and the author of Bul­let­proof Vest. He spent six years at The New York Times, his home­town news­pa­per, and now divides his time between north­ern Italy and Massachusetts.