THE NAKED CITADEL
A REPORTER AT LARGE about The Citadel, a military college in Charleston, South Carolina, and Shannon Faulkner, a woman who was recently the first female …
On The Citadel's cadets: "These were college men... So why did I expect their voices to crack?" Faludi witnesses young men with "doughy faces and twitching limbs" clinging to ritual masculinity—a portrait of how institutions preserve fragility by demanding toughness.