Thursday, April 18, 2024

An obituary on Steven Attewell

 My friend Marcus Roberts wrote this obituary, and I wholeheartedly agree with everything he says here. 

My friend Stefan Sasse sent me the news that Steven had died and I just started crying and couldn’t stop.

It’s been 24 hours now and I’m able to think a little about why that is.

For me, his loss to the community of Ice & Fire is obvious - ours is a world founded and defined by GRRM but explored and understood politically, historically and strategically with genius by Steven. And his coup chapters in ‘Race for the Iron Throne’ inspired an insane multi-day, real time, 24 player simulation of Ned vs Cersei that was wild fun!*

Less obvious to the world is the loss his death represents politically. Steven was that most rare of people: a man with fully worked out politics. He knew what he believed and why he believed it and could tell you where the ideas came from and where they could take us.

This manifested in his epic work, ‘People Must Live By Work: Direct Job Creation in America from FDR to Reagan’. I had told him how much I was looking forward to its sequel covering our current era of more activist government involvement in the economy.

That’s a serious point. Because the Left is still too weak on political economy right now and the Right is still too strong. Steven was one of the best minds we had at thinking through a coherent next chapter in the Left’s political economic thinking. I think his intellectual and policy legacy will be greater than even he perhaps realised.

The last reason why his death hit me so hard is a personal one: I can’t think of being in New York without seeing Steven. We’d meet in a West Side dive bar, have a beer than get a cab to ‘Nick’s Pizza’ on 94th and 2nd. All the time I’d be asking him questions, all the time he’d be talking, all the time I’d be learning - and then marvelling at this brain that represented for me the very best of geekery and nerdery alike.

I miss you Steven. I’m so sorry you’re gone. Thank you for your brilliance and friendship.

5 comments:

  1. Hi Stefan, I just learned the news. I'am also shocked, I didn't know he was sick. My memories of him are the podcasts he did in some of which you participated. To honour him I am reading his articles and listening those podcasts. The feeling it gives is me is that we all have a limited time on earth and how quickly time flies by. I feel very mortal right know. Take care and stay strong.

    Greetings, Roel from the Netherlands. A reader and listener of boy Steven and you.

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  3. RIP, great Steven !!!

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  4. This is really sad news. I looked forward to his commentary on Race for the Iron Throne, and he will be missed. Condolences to his family and friends.

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