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Miami Spends $840 Million on Thing No One Wants

Miami Spends $840 Million on Thing No One Wants

Miami’s politicians swelled with pride at announcing they were rapidly spending $840 million to build a thing literally no one in their city even remotely wanted. When their constituents forthrightly declared that they didn’t want the thing and would really rather...
How I Didn’t Starve to Death at West Point, Part 5: Reorgy Week

How I Didn’t Starve to Death at West Point, Part 5: Reorgy Week

This is the fourth essay in a five-part series. To read the previous piece, see here.Reorgy Week At the tail end of Beast, my squad sat on the ground beside Lake Fredrick, the field camp where we’d spent the last several weeks, backs against our rucksacks. The...
How I Didn’t Starve to Death at West Point, Part 4: The Field

How I Didn’t Starve to Death at West Point, Part 4: The Field

This is the fourth essay in a five-part series. To read the previous piece, see here.Rucking The Army takes everything you loved as a child and makes it awful. Campgrounds turn into forward operating bases (FOBs). Reading for pleasure becomes memorizing to avoid pain....
How I Didn’t Starve to Death at West Point, Part 3: Food & Sleep

How I Didn’t Starve to Death at West Point, Part 3: Food & Sleep

This is the third essay in a five-part series. To read the previous piece, see here.Food And we’ve come to starvation. Healthy, athletic male college freshmen in industrialized countries tend not to weigh 113 pounds. They also tend not to drop 27 pounds from their...