Edmund Burke's reflections on the Age of Obama

by Ellis Washington -- History consists for the great part of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of more…

C.S. Lewis and 'abolitionist' Obama

by Ellis Washington -- Man's quest of Nature, if the dreams of some scientific planners are realized, means the rule of a few hundreds of men over billions upon billions of men. more…

Aristotle: Father of political conservatism

by Ellis Washington -- Man is by nature a political animal. ~ Aristotle Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that more…

Barack Obama: Today's chief Gnostic

by Ellis Washington -- Gnostic [liberal] politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare. ~ Eric Voegelin I am astounded by the more…

Man-child Obama and the politics of revenge

by Ellis Washington -- I found solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race. ~ Barack Obama In a Sept. 11, 2001, New York Times interview, more…

A symposium starring Aristotle and Ayn Rand

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

Kagan blows fundamental judicial question

by Ellis Washington -- A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate. ~ Thomas Jefferson The Senate Judiciary more…

Courage vs. cowardice, Part 2

by Ellis Washington -- Prologue America in the 1770s witnessed a revolutionary atmosphere of fear and loathing as the colonists dared to break away from the mighty British Empire. Benjamin Franklin famously more…

Courage vs. cowardice

by Ellis Washington -- The great British statesman Sir Edmund Burke remarked: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." During these perilous times more…