Upon reflection that its unilateral $67 million donation of prime Downtown Miami property simply wasn’t sufficient to honor America’s Dear Leader, Miami Dade College’s Board of Trustees recently voted to hand over its entire Wolfson Campus to build Donald Trump’s...
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...
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...
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....
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...