AboutAngelo Codevilla, Author at Affluent Christian Investor
How Intelligence Bureaucracy is a Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone
Conscientious officers (there are some) often thus describe the eighty billion dollar per annum US intelligence community in which they work. The secrecy that is essential to intelligence always made it too easy for the executives of the 16 agencies … Read More
Our Ruling Class Cannot Hold the Eurozone Together Indefinitely
We live in a house of cards balanced by the shoddy magic of sorcerers’ apprentices. Contemporary Euro-America elites know not what they do. “Stabilization” seems to be their paramount objective. But all of us — investors like everyone else … Read More
Ruling Class Cosa Nostra
Mafia dons typically shut off questions about their dirty dealings by calling them ‘cosa nostra,’ Italian for ‘our thing’. None of your business. That in sum is the Obama Administration’s answer to Americans who probe the various ways in … Read More
Votes, Vetoes, and the Constitution
President Obama vowed to veto any agriculture bill that does not include food stamps. The House of Representatives voted on an agriculture bill, and will vote separately on a bill to fund food stamps. The New York Times characterized the … Read More
Russian Troops for “Security at Mass Events” in US! What Are They Thinking?
When people in power have more time and money than wisdom, the best we can expect from them is foolishness and waste. Usually we get worse. Thus comes an announcement of a meeting on June 25th between the Federal Emergency … Read More
Zimmerman Verdict and National Dissolution
Events confirm moral truths. Thus does the ruling class’ contempt for the jury’s verdict in the George Zimmerman case illustrate the Judeo-Christian hierarchy of sins: In the Old Testament as well as the New, pride is worse than greed. Self-serving … Read More
IRS Abuse Just a Customer Service Problem?
The New York Times’ news report that “a closer look at the I.R.S. operation [against conservatives] suggests that the problem was less about ideology than about how instructions to analyze applications were applied” reminds us of Groucho Marx’s story about … Read More
Uncivil Wars: Gay Marriage, Immigration, and the Ruling Class Gloating
The 150th anniversary of the bloody Battle of Gettysburg invites us to keep in mind that civil wars are worse catastrophes than market crashes, and that avoiding them should be any nation’s priority. Today, American society is split socially and … Read More
All in the Family: Ruling Class Moves Napolitano from One Giant Bureaucracy to Another
The University of California trustees’ appointment of Janet Napolitano to preside over the nation’s largest academic institution — a half million students, two hundred thousand employees, and $2.5 billion per year – is consistent with who she is and with … Read More
Angelo Codevilla answering questions on Stossel Show, October 21st, 2010
Angelo Codevilla
Angelo M. Codevilla is a professor of international relations at Boston University, a fellow of the Claremont Institute, and was the principal author of the 1980 presidential transition report on intelligence. He served as a U.S. Naval Officer, … Read More
Angelo Codevilla on Stossel Show, October 21st, 2010
Angelo Codevilla
Angelo M. Codevilla is a professor of international relations at Boston University, a fellow of the Claremont Institute, and was the principal author of the 1980 presidential transition report on intelligence. He served as a U.S. Naval Officer, … Read More