Tag: Stone Washington
To live free or fail to see… that is the question for America
“Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; and thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought” ~ Hamlet Words without thought never to Heaven go. ~ Claudius: Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 3 Act 1 The timeless classic and remarkable tragedy William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, written between 1599-1601, begins […]
Beowulf and America 2015
Fate often saves an undoomed man when his courage is good. ~ Beowulf The Call to Battle My inaugural essay for the New Year of 2015 is on the heroic Danish epic known as Beowulf (c. 700–1000 A.D.). The saga begins with the honoring of the death of Scyld Scefing, the great founder of the […]
The Old Man, America, and the Sea of Iraq
“You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it […]
Is America still Brave… or have we become a New World?
Dystopia—human baby extraction and incubation “Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth”. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), an English writer, humanist, atheist, and a prominent member of the Huxley family, grandson to Thomas Huxley (1825-95), who was also called “Darwin’s bulldog” because of […]
Symposium: The Damnation of Ideas Part 2
In this sequel and review of Symposium: The Damnation of Ideas created by my father, Professor Ellis Washington, we continue to delve ever deeper into the second half of the 10 books written by 10 controversial thinkers whose collective works historically have had a very negative impact on society and Western civilization; whose damnable ideas […]
Symposium: the damnation of ideas
This article is essay review of my father’s March 2012 Socratic dialogue titled, Symposium: The Damnation of Ideas (Part I & II). Here we will address Part I (Books 6-10). In this epic two-part saga the writer begins by putting the renowned philosopher Socrates in historical context as the narrator and omniscient judge-figure of the […]
Now go, go and take America!
“Beware The Court of Owls that watches all the time, Ruling Gotham from a shadow perch, behind granite and lime. They watch you at your hearth, they watch you in your bed, Speak not a whispered word of them, or they’ll send the Talon for your head.” ~The Court of Owls proverb Prologue Since my […]
1915-2015–100th Anniversary of Booker T. Washington
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it. ~ Booker T. Washington (quote in my father’s office) Happy Resurrection day and Easter to all. This essay celebrates the 100th anniversary of the legendary Black American conservative intellectual, Booker T. Washington, who was born on April 5, 1856 and died […]
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