4/4 is a magazine based on a simple calculation: 4 contributors, 8 pages each. We arrived at this formula partly by instinct—because we cut the pie into 4 pieces (we didn’t think we could eat 8)—and partly because 2 is a company, 3 is a crowd, but 4 is a party. There’s also the vague memory of someone once saying that one of the last freedoms to defend is that 2+2=4.