This was a magazine about academia which seems interesting and ran from 1990 to 2001.
I found out about it listening to the Longform episode with Masha Gessen who wrote for it at one point.
Interestingly, Aaron Swartz pulled it into a mirror archive when he was 19 in December 2005 which is availible here:
http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/
This was how I discovered https://theinfo.org.