The Stanford Freshmen Who Want to Rule the World

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apparent•about 5 hours ago

Interesting article, and then at the end you see that this Stanford student is also pursuing his own path to fame and riches — by publishing a forthcoming tell-all book about the apparently seedy underbelly of Stanford.

Perhaps he is not so different from his subjects, at least in terms of his end goals?

randycupertino•about 3 hours ago

He's a nepo baby; His dad is Peter Baker, chief White House Correspondent for the NYTimes and his mom is Susan Glasser, a staff writer at The New Yorker & former editor at The Washington Post.

IncreasePosts•about 1 hour ago

He might be a nepo baby, but he also might be a person who had two extremely successful professional writers tutoring and mentoring him for years on end.

pfannkuchen•24 minutes ago

Depends how involved they were. A lot of very successful people end up focusing on work and outsourcing the kid stuff.

david_shi•about 4 hours ago

Many such cases

FeteCommuniste•about 3 hours ago

Interesting that "recruitment" happens right after age of consent is reached. I guess eighteen year olds have some special intellectual quality that a twenty year old would lack?

IncreasePosts•about 1 hour ago

It doesn't need to be anything sexual. It could just be that 18-year-olds have less experience with the world overall, a less developed moral compass, and fewer attachments to the larger world. World. So, you can mold them however you like.

It's still absolutely gross, but not necessarily gross like that

randycupertino•about 3 hours ago

https://smry.ai/https:/www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/sta...

The Stanford Freshmen Who Want to Rule the World

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