There's not a ton for adults to do at the Intrepid Museum, the military museum housed on the U.S.S. Intrepid, the aircraft carrier permanently docked off Manhattan's West Side. You can only get so much mileage out of promenading on the carrier's deck, milling around the "space shuttle pavilion," or smiling politely for one of the museum's many mandatory photo ops, which are required, theme-park style, to enter certain spaces. (The aircraft elevator demonstration, which happens every two hours, was a particular low point during my visit.)
Surveying America's Broken Brotherhood Atop the USS Intrepid
A visit to the museum with Jasper Craven, whose new book "God Forgives, Brothers Don't" goes deep on the U.S. military's influence on American masculinity.
