Pete Hegseth’s Magic Marker

The supersize black Sharpie is what gives it away. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s to stop awarding tenure to civilian professors at the military academies ends with a huge, jagged signature—an homage, perhaps, to that of the president—the size of two of the paragraphs above. With the same instrument, he also underlined, word by word, two key sentences that are as blunt as the message they are intended to deliver and the mind that conceived them. In appearance and tone, the