This is an opinion piece, and the opinion is structural: the most radical feature a publication can offer in 2026 is a last page.
The feed has no ending by design; an ending is a place where you might stop, and stopping is the one behavior the machine is engineered to prevent. A newspaper has a last page for the same reason a meal has a last course — because a thing that cannot end cannot be finished, and a thing that cannot be finished cannot be owned by the person experiencing it.[1]
A thing that cannot end cannot be finished.THIS EDITORIAL BOARD
We are told the infinite feed is abundance. It is not abundance. It is the absence of editing presented as generosity. Abundance is a full newspaper. Infinity is a landfill with a search function.
So: read this issue to the bottom. There is a bottom. When you reach it, you will have finished something, which is more than the rest of the internet intends to let you do today. Then close the tab. The paper will still be here tomorrow. That is what paper does.
NOTES & ERRATA — FILED BY THE DESK
- Infinite scroll was described by its own inventor as a design he came to regret. The feed keeps the feature and loses the regret, which is the most honest summary of platform governance available. ↩