Angelo Codevilla (1943–2021)
Autor/a de War: Ends and Means
Sobre l'autor
Angelo M. Codevilla is a professor emeritus of international relations at Boston University, a member of the Hoover Institution's working group on military history, and a fellow of the Claremont Institute. His essays and opeds, written in several languages, have appeared in major domestic and mostra'n més foreign magazines and newspapers. Formerly a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution, he is the author of thirteen books, including War: Ends and Means, Informing Statecraft, The Ruling Class, The Character of Nations, Advice to War Presidents, and A Student's Guide to International Relations. mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Photograph by Gage Skidmore (2013)
Obres de Angelo Codevilla
The Character of Nations: How Politics Makes and Breaks Prosperity, Family, and Civility (1997) 57 exemplars
Between the Alps and a Hard Place: Switzerland in World War II and the Rewriting of History (2000) 25 exemplars
To Make and Keep Peace Among Ourselves and with All Nations (Hoover Institution Press Publication) (2014) 10 exemplars
America's Rise and Fall among Nations: Lessons in Statecraft from John Quincy Adams (2022) 6 exemplars
Eidgenossenschaft in Bedrängnis die Schweiz im Zweiten Weltkrieg und moralischer Druck heute (2002) 2 exemplars
The Ruling Class 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Ten Years of the Claremont Review of Books (2012) — Col·laborador — 11 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Codevilla, Angelo Maria
- Data de naixement
- 1943-05-25
- Data de defunció
- 2021-09-21
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- Italy (birth)
USA (naturalized) - Lloc de naixement
- Voghera, Italy
- Lloc de defunció
- Tracy, California, USA
- Causa de la mort
- car crash
- Educació
- Rutgers University
University of Notre Dame
Claremont Graduate University (PhD) - Professions
- conservative political theorist
- Organitzacions
- Boston University
Membres
Ressenyes
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 16
- També de
- 2
- Membres
- 376
- Popularitat
- #64,175
- Valoració
- 3.7
- Ressenyes
- 7
- ISBN
- 37
- Llengües
- 1
The Ruling Class is Bill Maher and HIllary Clinton and Chuck Schumer and Meryl Streep and Al Sharpton and Lena Dunahm and Rolling Stone Magazine and the New York Times and the Washington Post and Hollywood and all of commercial television and radio and newspapers and magazines and the National Endowment for the Arts and the Public Broadcasting Corporation and Janet Yellen and Stanley Fischer and Robert Reich and the Anti-Defamation League and the SPLC and B'nai B'rith and others of their ilk. Their base belief is that they are the best and the brightest and that anyone who opposes them, or any of their ideas, is retrograde, racist, and dysfunctional unless appropriately constrained. Hussein Obama sneered that the people of Pennsylvania clung to "God and guns". (Oh, the horror.)
They unabashedly believe that they are socially and intellectually superior to the vulgar herd (you and me) and they no more believe that a Christian might be their intellectual and moral equal than white slave owners could think the same of Negroes. The Ruling Class thinks it exclusively owns modern science's secrets. Its answer to any problem is to increase government power.
The Ruling Class believes it can transcend the Constitution while pretending allegiance to it. Their primary enemy is the Family. Parents are not allowed to object to what their children are taught, but the government may object to how parents raise their children. The Ruling Classes' principal article of faith, its claim to the right to decide for others, is precisely that it knows things scientifically, and operates by standards beyond the comprehension of others. They assume moral authority as priests of what they claim are ultimate truths. Ordinary people pervert reason with ideology, religion, or interest, science is "science" only in the right hands.
The whole problem of the legal system is that our laws are primarily grants of discretion and all you need to know about them is who they empower. By making economic rules dependent upon discretion the Ruling Class teaches us that prosperity is to be bought with the coin of political support.
The power to decide when words mean what they say and when they do not is the power to do so whenever one wants and for whatever purpose. But, if a Constitution is to have any meaning at all it has to be some kind of restraint on the government. When asked what in the Constitution allowed her to force citizens to purchase health insurance Nancy Pelosi answered: "Are you kidding. Are you kidding?"
Discretion kills the importance of the law. They can tell us what the law is today, but they cannot tell us what the law will be tomorrow.
Their minions are the "gimme free stuff from da govment" people like the teacher's unions and all government employee unions and the entities that run professional organizations, like the AMA and the ABA, but not the individual members of those organizations. The Ruling Class believes that its opinions are science and that anyone who opposes their scientific positions is stupid, crude, religious, and a gun-toting racist. the Ruling Class worships itself and its pathological altruism. Enemies of the Ruling Class, to be harassed, bullied, and destroyed, are God, religion, fathers, nuclear families, parental authority,
In between the Ruling Class and their minions is the rest of us - the Country Class - the poor slobs who remit (this year) 3 trillion (and counting) in taxes - and who struggle forward working, feeding our families, and trying to be moral and decent while being harried and harassed by swarms of bureaucrats who infect every square millimeter of our lives - what we eat, what we screw into the lamp, what we put into the gas tank, how we discipline our kids, whether we can build a porch on our house, whether we can be licensed as a dentist, and so on and on and on. Obama Care was the Ruling Classes' ultimate boondoggle as it taxed citizens to pay for medical care and it forced citizens to purchase health insurance.
Angelo M. Codevilla is brilliant. Read this book . (Now, damnit.)… (més)