Unlikely survivalist straddles two worlds

“He is Columbia-educated, petite, soft-spoken, borderline giggly. He’s “a hipster” who “looked quite humorous in a class with a bunch of Blackwater types wearing combat boots and 511 tactical pants,” says Kevin Reeve, who taught Strauss how to hijack a car and escape from handcuffs, among other things, in a class called Urban Escape and Evasion.”