Commentary
America lost a great patriot and one of its foremost public intellectuals last week with the untimely death of Angelo Codevilla at the age of 78. Professor Codevilla, whose career spanned the Navy, the foreign service, the intelligence community, academe, think tanks, the blogosphere, and the literary world, was one of the sharpest and shrewdest observers of the contemporary political scene—hardly surprising, since the Italian-born scholar produced a notable 1997 translation of Machiavelli’s “The Prince.”
