Ivy Grows in Baghdad

by Andrew Martin | July 10, 2008 at 3:49 am

The Ivy League has had a rather complicated relationship with the military in recent years (see Sanchez, Matt-- or better yet, don't). Despite the ideological gap that has alienated many liberal Ivyfolk from their country's adventures in Iraq, the Schools have produced a few good military men with a penchant for writing about their experiences. A couple years back, Columbia's magazine The Eye ran recurring dispatches from Lt. Josh Arthur, CC ’04 in Baghdad. Now Princeton alum Capt. Nate Rawlings is providing commentary and answering questions about his current deployment in Iraq for NPR.

Rawlings comes across as extremely hesitant to cross party lines and doesn't say anything even remotely controversial, but it's hard not to have some affection for a guy who's writing a bafflingly eclectic advice column from a war zone. In yesterday's installment, his three questions were: a heart-tugging letter from a soldier who will likely miss his son's birth, a scathing anti-war screed disguised as a question, and a jaunty inquiry about being an Ivy Leaguer in Iraq. I wonder which of these we're interested in? Read the rest of this entry »

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