Absolutely sickening news today: one of civilization’s great defenders, Angelo Codevilla, has died at the age of 78: struck and killed by a drunk driver as he walked home from church.
Here is his author page at the Claremont Review of Books, and here is one of his most recent items, published at The American Mind. Please take some time to read some of these essays, and to appreciate what a terrible loss this is.
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Thanks for sharing his very thoughtful and clarifying essay, To Rescue a Nation. To lose such a mind to a drunk driver is indeed detestable and senseless.
Yes, I am sickened by this news. I first read his work after 9/11, but became more aware of the importance of his voice in the days just prior to the 2016 election.
Really, a drunk driver? While walking home from church? It beggars belief… an accident? Sorry, in these days the tin foil hat is getting well-worn.
He had some serious insider knowledge of the intel community. I hope he left some ‘dead man’s switch’ papers (sorry again – no pun intended).
Condolences to his family and friends. He lived in my neck of the woods, I think, up in the No.California foothills. I’m over west of there.
I will miss his contributions and insights.
mharko,
Crikey — my recent post notwithstanding, it hadn’t even occurred to me that this might have been anything but a random misfortune. But yeah, Codevilla “knew things”, and was a big-league dissenter, and we all know that anything’s possible.
My take whenever the question of behind-the-scenes skulduggery comes up is:
1) If they could do it and get away with it, would they?
2) If they did do it, does it look like they’re going to get away with it?
If the answer to both of those is “yes”, well…
Maybe the team that took care of Michael Hastings is still around southern California.
I was just checking in, reading your response, and thinking about how i still want to read all the stuff at Claremont. I then clicked on over to Arnold Kling’s askblog because I regularly look in there to get various economists’ perspectives, though Kling soft peddles a lot…and his post today is about Angelo Codevilla; a roundtable discussion in Tablet posted 9/6/21 in which Angelo Codevilla participated. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/authority-blob-roundtable