Zach Schonfeld is a reporter for Newsweek.com and a contributor to Consequence of Sound. Previously, he wrote for The Atlantic Wire and graduated from Wesleyan University, birthplace of Das Racist, MGMT, and the nineteenth-century respiration calorimeter, where he served as editor of Wesleying, a popular student-life blog. In his spare time, he enjoys visiting presidential historic sites and scowling at split infinitives. In addition to Consequence of Sound, his writing has appeared online at Rolling Stone, TIME.com, The Nation, USA Today College, The Hartford Courant, Paste Magazine, The Rumpus, and PopMatters, where he is an associate editor.