Jasper Craven

Type Media Center Fellow

Jasper Craven is an investigative reporter covering veterans, the military, and American men for outlets including The New York Times Magazine, POLITICO Magazine, Harper’s, Mother Jones, The New Republic, The Nation, The Baffler, and New York magazine. He’s the author of the forthcoming book God Forgives, Brothers Don’t: The Long March of Military Education and the Making of American Manhood.

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Books

God Forgives, Brothers Don't: The Long March of Military Education and the Making of American Manhood

Jasper Craven

In the tradition of Sebastian Junger’s Tribe and Chris Hedges’s classic War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, a powerful investigation into the fraught history and ominous future of military education in the United States, and how it formed and fuels increasingly volatile strains of American masculinity.

Highlights

The Complications of Graham Platner’s Veteran Identity

How much of the former Senate candidate’s behavior should be read through the lens of what combat did to him, and how much of it is simply who he is, independent of war?

Jasper Craven The New Yorker

The 15-Year-Old Keeping War Memories Alive

On the edge of a goat farm in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom sits Luke’s Military Museum, an aluminum trailer that serves as a loving testament to the nation’s veterans.

The museum’s 15-year-old founder, Luke Morrison, has amassed an impressive collection of military artifacts and collected war stories through hundreds of conversations with veterans. He is always on the lookout for new subjects to interview. The most obvious tell is a service cap, though Luke will often venture a guess. “If I’m in the grocery store and I see an old guy, I’ll be like, ‘Were you in the military?’ And usually it’ll be, ‘Yes,’” he said.

Jasper Craven The New York Times

On Tilt

America’s New Gambling Epidemic

Jasper Craven Harper's