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Ellis Washington is a former staff editor of the Michigan Law Review and law clerk at the Rutherford Institute. He is a professor of Constitutional Law, Legal Ethics, and Contracts at the National Paralegal College, a counselor at the American College of Education, and a founding board member of Salt and Light Global. Washington is a co-host of "Joshua's Trial," a radio show of Christian conservative thought. A graduate of John Marshall Law School and post-grad work at Harvard Law School, his latest law review article is titled, "Social Darwinism in Nazi Family and Inheritance Law." Washington’s latest book is a 2-volume collection of essays and Socratic dialogues – "The Progressive Revolution" (University Press of America, 2013). Visit his popular law/political blog, "EllisWashingtonReport.com, an essential repository dedicated to educating the next generation of young conservative intellectuals.
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I remember Allan Bloom

by Ellis Washington -- We can't avoid thinking. The thoughtless are always going to be the prisoners of other people's thoughts. American intellectual life has given us an easy way to believe more…

Nixon and today's progressive GOP

by Ellis Washington -- "Nixon" by Andy Warhol (1972) Despite the past two and a half years America has been run by a president who is in every respect a socialist with more…

Symposium: The SCOTUS suicide pact

by Ellis Washington -- Fabian Socialist Society motto etched in stained glass (1910): "REMOULD IT [the world] NEARER TO THE HEART'S DESIRE." Note: Their crest is a wolf in sheep's clothing. Socrates more…

America's iconic Marxist historian

by Ellis Washington -- Richard Hofstadter I join [the Communist Party USA] without enthusiasm, but with a sense of obligation. ... My fundamental reason for joining is that I don't like capitalism more…

We're all communists now, Part 3

by Ellis Washington -- Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State. ~ Mussolini Like the biblical prophets of antiquity – Moses, Elijah, Isaiah and John the Revelator, more…

We're all communists now, Part 2

by Ellis Washington -- Santayana's famous aphorism is inscribed on a plaque at the Auschwitz concentration camp translated into Polish In the early 1980s, one of the books I read in college more…

We're all communists now

by Ellis Washington -- Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. – Sir Winston Churchill more…

War socialism, Part 2

by Ellis Washington -- Propaganda posters for War Socialism Give George W. Bush key passages from Wilson's speeches to read, and few would recognize that almost a century had passed. Nor should more…

War socialism

by Ellis Washington -- Propaganda posters for War Socialism [Samantha] Power generalized from her Balkans experience to become an advocate of American and NATO military intervention in humanitarian crises, a position which more…

Symposium: Plato's Cave, 2011

by Ellis Washington -- Plato's Cave illustration Socrates (470-399 B.C.) – a renowned Greek philosopher from Athens who taught Plato – Plato taught Aristotle and Aristotle taught Alexander the Great. Socrates used more…