Whatever you think of the West Coast Straussians at the Claremont Institute, Angelo Codevilla is a serious scholar– and one worth reading. Both Lew and Tom Woods have interviewed him. Now he’s out with a remarkable article in the Claremont Review of Books titled The Cold Civil War. Codevilla calls for all-out radical decentralization of US governance, and suggests (inter alia) that states could engage in nullification of federal abortion rulings. This is a new and welcome development, coming as it does from a movement conservative organ. And while Codevilla falls back into conservative buzzspeak (“statecraft,” “federalism”), what he prescribes in the … Continue reading Angelo Codevilla Gets Radical