Jaclyn Olsen

Managing Editor @collegiatenet | † CoC

[Jaclyn Olsen @jac1yno1sen]

Glad to finally share the inaugural issue of the Columbia Undergraduate Journal of Classics. I was honored to design it last year.

https://t.co/lA9AMS1TnF

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But I guess there’ll always be a use for pretty, familiar, intangible faces to distill things like degrees of responsibility for us

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Videos like these remind me the chokehold of 2010s Hollywood celebrity worship is still strong. Apparently the minor Al advocacy resume he's acquired entitles him to a platform before the Anglophone world.

[👤 @ezradulis]

Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt echoes @SecScottBessent, says AI businesses are responsible for large-scale hacking incidents committed by their agents:

"It's not the models committing crimes. It's a company committing crimes. They should be investigated, with full transparency."

[Nikos Mohammadi @NikosMohammadi]

Thanks @collegiatenet & @jac1yno1sen for reposting my Jacobin essay on Olivia Reingold, and @Sundial_CU staff editor @shoshanaaufzien's investigation of Mahmoud Mamdani — two *very* different pieces. A testament to the newsletter, you should subscribe: https://t.co/33T8ccZ3CW

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@StanfordReview In another, a former Hoover Institution fellow, who had ironically been dubbed a “patriot,” set up a surrogacy scheme enabling Chinese elites to have US-citizen babies. The piece contains original reporting about a CCP official and PLA soldier.

https://t.co/UC6A61lBjg

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We have a slew of interesting stories this week.

Absurdly, a week after FIRE ranked UChicago #1 for free speech, the school’s Ancient Cultures department flagged @TPUSA’s upcoming event with @Timcast as “controversial.”

https://t.co/NrbGd1TcEq

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This week’s newsletter is out.

Our featured story comes from @ThinkerChicago, followed by work from @StanfordReview, @claremontind, @newguardpress, @cornellreview, @AmReformer, @DartmouthReview, and The Rostra, our John Adams College paper.

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In one @StanfordReview story, the school used AI to race-swap and yassify its students.

https://t.co/SPYJC2nCVx

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let each esteem other better than themselves

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A serious abuse of birthright citizenship

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“Last week, a surrogate identified as ‘Judy’ came forward when she discovered she was carrying the child of reclusive Chinese billionaire Xu Bo, who has allegedly sired as many as 300 children, all of whom gained U.S. citizenship via U.S. based surrogacy.”

Read more about the former Hoover Institute fellow’s surrogacy scheme →

[No Context KJV @KJVnocontext]

Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

[Dan McLaughlin @baseballcrank]

Me @NRO: The Scourge of Obsessive Positioning in the Right's Media and Politics https://t.co/4P2nwmT1ix

[Nikos Mohammadi @NikosMohammadi]

It’s a testament to @collegiatenet that they promote a wide array of students’ work, from across intellectual and ideological fault lines. It’s increasingly rare today.

See my Jacobin mag essay, “Bari Weiss’s Most Loyal Soldier,” now up on their site:

https://t.co/Boc41642fD

[Kane 謝凱堯 @kane]

This is it, the most zeitgeist story. It’s got performative diversity fetish. It’s got social media body dysmorphia. It’s got AI moral panic. It’s got decay of academic institutions.

[Intercollegiate Studies Institute @ISI]

This past weekend, a small cohort of @collegiatenet student journalists gathered in Washington, DC for the CN Journalism Workshop: News and Feature Writing.

Students worked closely with @juderusso94 (The American Conservative) and @brandonmcg (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) to sharpen their reporting instincts and strengthen their prose. Together they studied landmark works of American journalism, from the golden age of sports writing to the masters of narrative nonfiction, and asked what makes those pieces unforgettable: structure, voice, reporting depth, and narrative precision.

Students also joined journalist and author Christopher Caldwell for a candid discussion about what working in journalism looks like today, and what it takes to write with clarity and conviction in a crowded media landscape.

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https://t.co/SSjIc0oa7V

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It’s impressive UChicago rose from no. 43 to no. 1 on FIRE’s free speech ranking. Irish’s interview explains how.

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This week’s newsletter is out.

Our featured story was written by @ThinkerChicago’s Derek Irish, followed by work from @Sundial_CU, @IrishRoverND, @newguardpress, and @DartmouthReview.

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A brief overview of the variously-named New Right economics 

“The New Right’s central departure may be rejecting the idea that the sum of all individual choices tends to automatically add up to optimal outcomes.”

[WikiVictorian @wikivictorian]

Portrait of an unidentified young woman with a cigarette. Photographed in Sweden, 1912.