Jasper Craven is a freelance journalist who covers the military and veterans. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, the New Republic, and the Baffler.
General Douglas MacArthur was determined that West Point graduates would uphold the most romantic definitions of honor. Instead his credo fostered a culture of duplicity and institutional subterfuge, leading to real-world military fiascos.
Amazon is posing as a friend to veterans who need jobs when they return home from military service — while mistreating those veterans just as brutally as any other Amazon worker.