Hello ladies and gentlemen, this is the Victor Davis Hansen show, the class

assist. We are recording on Thursday September 23rd, 2021. It's the first day of

Fall I'm Jack Fowler, the host. Victor Davis Hansen is the star and he is the Martin and

Eli Anderson senior fellow at the Hoover institution, the Wayne and Marsha busky distinguished

fellow in history at Hillsdale College, everything Victor writes every appearance he makes.

You're going to find it or links to it at his website, victorhansen.com. The blade of Perseus

is a lot of material on there that you need to subscribe to in order to read. We'll talk more about

that later. We have here on the class assist, we tend to talk about Victor's pieces at American

greatness and some of the pieces he has written for his website and that's what we will do. First,

we will get Victor's thoughts on the death of a friend and colleague Angela Codavia and we'll do

that right after this message. We're back with the Victor Davis Hansen show, the class assist.

We are one of the three shows under the umbrella of the Victor Davis Hansen show, the other one

other is the traditionalist. I do that with Victor and the great Sammy Wink does the cultural list.

We thank everyone for listening. Victor, I know you were a friend of Angela Codavia. I know he wrote

frequently for strategic, the important online journal that Hoover institution publishes and

that you oversee. Do you have any thoughts you'd like to share about Angela? I do.

Angela Codavia died on Sunday and it was 78, 1943 to 2021. There were a lot of misinformation at first.

How he died that he was hit by a drunk driver, he was walking in sites white, but it seems to me

that if you look at that, I've been trying to find the police reports and he drifted off the

side of the road and there was a semi-park there that shouldn't have been parked there, but

there's no culpability and he hit it and died. That was a great tragedy. If you look at his life,

he came as an immigrant from northern Italy when he was 12 and he was variously, he had a PhD

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