We continue our series on the book Fighting Enemies Foreign and Domestic: The Legacy of Angelo M. Codevilla by discussing chapter 5: “Angelo Codevilla’s Failure, and Ours” by David P. Goldman. 

Matt Parks and David Corbin explore the ideas behind today's headlines.

Opening and closing music from “2020 Vision (Worse than Blind)” by Fred Lancia. Used with permission.

Opening (0:53) - We discuss Dave’s Thanksgiving trip to New England and the beginning of the Christmas season.

Review: “The Compleat Political Thinker” (2:43) - We review the lessons of the fourth chapter of Fighting Enemies Foreign and Domestic.

“Angelo Codevilla’s Failure, and Ours” (5:08) - We discuss Dr. Codevilla’s decision to pursue a calling as a professor and public intellectual rather than opportunities that he had in the intelligence and scientific communities and the broader challenges of bringing about a reform of ruling class politics with a populist movement led by political outsiders. 

Link: Fighting Enemies Foreign and Domestic: The Legacy of Angelo M. Codevilla at Encounter Books. 

Tocqueville’s Crystal Ball (37:57) - We discuss the good football and our bad picks for the Thanksgiving NFL games and make our predictions for the Power 4 college football conference championship games with a special interest in their implications for Dave’s adopted Notre Dame Fighting Irish.  

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Fighting Enemies Foreign and Domestic: The Legacy of Angelo M. Codevilla at Encounter Books.

Matt Parks and David Corbin both taught politics at The King’s College in New York City and have written together on reviving American republicanism, The Federalist, and Democracy in America. All views expressed in this podcast are those of the speaker and not necessarily those of their present or former employers.