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RIP Angelo Codevilla — 18 Comments

  1. Very sad indeed! He was a fine and learned writer, as well as an important voice of reason. It is certainly true that support for Trump was regarded, in some quarters, as infra dig, but the descent into sheer foolishness and utter irrelevancy of such formerly sensible writers as Charlie Sykes, George Will, Jonah Goldberg, Mona Charen and others (too many to name, but all with brains severely addled by acute TDS) proves that what such persons most valued was always their proximity to power and privilege (not principle); therefore they could not abide an outsider with the temerity to challenge the establishment, whether it be “The Swamp” or “The Deep State” or the DNC or the MSM or GOPe, i.e. our thoroughly corrupt ruling elite.

  2. I only became aware of Codevilla recently (last five years or so), but since then I have read everything he wrote. He will be missed.

  3. I eagerly devoured every column and interview I ran across over the last five years or so, Codevilla was brilliant, learned, a fearlessly independent thinker and a national treasure. How terrible to lose him prematurely. Rest in Peace…

    Mike Plaiss sees some parallels with David Goldman, I think there were some significant differences as well in their thinking.

  4. Codevilla is a huge loss just when we need intellectual firepower. I am proud to have met him at a Clairemont Institute event. He will be sorely missed.

  5. Codevilla will be remembered as a chronicler of decline and as a harbinger long after we’re all gone.

    Second the Goldman recommendation. Washed down with some Vintage Evola, naturally.

  6. @ Scott > “A Bridge Too Far.”

    That’s now the one in Del Rio, for Biden’s Operation El Mercado.

  7. Just a correction, I don’t think that drunk driver connection has been confirmed. Some say that there was another incident nearby involving a drunk driver and someone jumped to conclusions.

    Regardless, RIP.

  8. Codevilla’s death hit me like the proverbial ton of bricks. It was unexpected, certainly, but I originally thought is was from natural causes. After all, he was 78 years of age. Then I learned he was killed by a “drunk driver.” That outraged me at first, thinking of the cosmic injustice of such a demise. Then I considered that his active and intelligent revelation of the state of affairs in which we find ourselves probably caused our ruling class no small degree of discomfort and I recalled the mysterious death of Seth Rich. And the “suicide” of Vince Foster. Even further back in our history was the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby, who shortly thereafter died of “cancer.” Am I being too suspicious? Can one ever be too suspicious in our present age?

  9. the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby, who shortly thereafter died of “cancer.”

    He died three years later. He’d had a full-dress trial in Texas courts in the interim. He was 54 years old at the time and had lung cancer. The ratio of annual deaths to annual diagnoses for lung cancer was at that time about 0.91. I have no clue what sort of voodoo you fancy the CIA employed to grace him with an illness which is generated by decades-long exposure to chemical compounds and radiation.

    And the “suicide” of Vince Foster.

    Four separate investigation of Foster’s death concluded it was a suicide. He was living apart from his wife and children at the time; he’d been in contact with his home town doctor in the weeks prior to his death and been prescribed anti-depressants.

    The mystery about Foster is not that he committed suicide, but that he was willing to put aside a satisfactory situation as a partner in a mid-law firm in order to work in the White House counsel’s office, a job that made him miserable. The other mystery is why he was willing to associate with the Clintons at all above and beyond the minimum necessary as Hellary was also a partner in the Rose firm; Gary Aldrich and others paint a portrait of a very conscientious man, not promising material for a Clinton minion.

  10. Apropos of Codevilla’s passing: Michael Walsh has posted an excerpt from an essay Codevilla contributed to a forthcoming collection titled Against the Great Reset, which includes essays by Spengler, Victor Davis Hanson, Richard Fernandez, Conrad Black, and others.

    Codevilla’s essay, “Resetting the Educational Reset,” tackles the decline in contemporary Western educational standards. A sample: “Loosening our bounds to reality is attractive also because calling things by whatever names serves our immediate purpose; liberates us from the hard work of understanding things not of our making; and gives us the illusion of mastery over our environment. It is especially attractive to those who have power over others, because it frees them from having to persuade the rest of humanity. For society’s mob of lazy under-performers, pleasing the leaders is an easier way of securing one’s place than competing for merit. Anyhow: intellectual/moral deterioration has ever been an easier sell than the hard acquisition of skills and virtues.”

    The rest of the excerpt is here: https://the-pipeline.org/the-prince-angelo-codevilla-1943-2021/

  11. The marvelous Codevilla was a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, which publishes the quarterly Claremont Review of Books, to which he was a very frequent contributor. I devoured each issue, for some ten or so years now.

    The Review quickly became pro-Trump, just as I did, and reviled the anti-Trumpers like Sen. Sasse (R-NE).

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