The Progressive Revolution

History of Liberal Fascism through the Ages, Vol. V: 2014-2015 Writings

Ellis Washington

His tenth book, The Progressive Revolution (Volume V)—continues his legal, historical and literary series based on Natural Law, Natural Rights and the original political philosophy of the constitutional Framers and original jurisprudence of the U.S. Supreme Court. Washington systematically chronicles both the historical significance and political deconstruction that the Progressive Revolution or the Progressive Age (circa 1860–present) has perpetrated against Western Civilization and American society… even to this day. These volumes are a collection of selected essays, articles and Socratic dialogues from Washington’s weekly columns published in RenewAmerica.com—an essential news and opinion website of primarily conservative writers and ideas. This opus—Volume V: 2014-15 Writings—which rather than being arranged chronologically by date, are organized topically according to their subject matter of 16 intellectual disciplines including—Law, Politics, Foreign Policy, Philosophy, Aesthetics, the Academy, Religion, Economics, Science & Medicine, Math & Engineering, Culture & Society, History and Legal Scholarship.

Hamilton Books

Pages: 518 • Trim: 7½ x 10½

978-0-7618-6849-1 • Hardback • December 2016 • $168.00 • (£131.00)

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Subjects: Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, History / Intellectual History, History / United States / General, Philosophy / Movements / General, Philosophy / Political

The Progressive Revolution

History of Liberal Fascism through the Ages, Vol. V: 2014-2015 Writings

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Summary

His tenth book, The Progressive Revolution (Volume V)—continues his legal, historical and literary series based on Natural Law, Natural Rights and the original political philosophy of the constitutional Framers and original jurisprudence of the U.S. Supreme Court. Washington systematically chronicles both the historical significance and political deconstruction that the Progressive Revolution or the Progressive Age (circa 1860–present) has perpetrated against Western Civilization and American society… even to this day. These volumes are a collection of selected essays, articles and Socratic dialogues from Washington’s weekly columns published in RenewAmerica.com—an essential news and opinion website of primarily conservative writers and ideas. This opus—Volume V: 2014-15 Writings—which rather than being arranged chronologically by date, are organized topically according to their subject matter of 16 intellectual disciplines including—Law, Politics, Foreign Policy, Philosophy, Aesthetics, the Academy, Religion, Economics, Science & Medicine, Math & Engineering, Culture & Society, History and Legal Scholarship.

Details

Hamilton Books

Pages: 518 • Trim: 7½ x 10½

978-0-7618-6849-1 • Hardback • December 2016 • $168.00 • (£131.00)

978-0-7618-6850-7 • eBook • December 2016 • $159.50 • (£123.00)

Subjects: Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, History / Intellectual History, History / United States / General, Philosophy / Movements / General, Philosophy / Political

Author

Ellis Washington is a former Staff Editor of the Michigan Law Review (1989) and law clerk at Sixty-Plus Elder Law Clinic (1991) and The Rutherford Institute (1992). He is an Adjunct Professor at the National Paralegal College and the National Juris University where he teaches law, politics, history and, the humanities. Since 2010 Washington has been a co-host on Joshua's Trial, a radio show of Christian conservative thought. He is a graduate of DePauw University (B.M. 1983), University of Michigan (M.M. 1986), John Marshall Law School (J.D. 1994) and post-graduate studies in history and law at Harvard and Michigan. For 35 years Professor Washington has written extensively on constitutional law, jurisprudence, legal history, literary criticism, politics, philosophy, political philosophy, critical race theory and on numerous other subjects. His books and law review articles appear on 4 continents and inside the Chamber’s Library of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Table of Contents

Contents
Epigraph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #
Prologue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #
Chapter One — On Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #
1. Do you know your Constitution? Part 2
2. DOD’s war against the Framers and conservative ideas
3. On Aquinas First Principles: Ethics, Natural Law and Truth
4. On Hobbes and the Leviathan who devours Men
5. Salt Light Global targeted for defending Woman expelled from Planet Fitness
6. Gov. Mike Pence vs. the Shadow Constitution
7. Magna Carta: 800 Years of Natural Law
8. SCOTUS: 6 Despots in Minister’s Robes
9. SCOTUS: 5 Freuds in Minister’s Robes
10. Nazism American Style: The Nuremberg Race Laws (1935)
11. Hitler’s Willing Executioners — then and now
12. Symposium—Puppetmaster
13. Hitler’s Judges: Roland Freisler and his U.S. progeny
14. The Negro Project and Margaret Sanger’s proto-fascism
15. Symposium—This is your time
16. Symposium—Your faith must stand trial
Chapter Two — On Politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #
1. 50 years since LBJ’s Great [Slave] Society
2. Reagan predicted Obama 50 years ago
3. On Tacitus and the Tyranny of Monarchy and Democracy
4. On Machiavelli and the ends justify the means to Liberal Fascism
5. Black Chicago activists destroy Liberal Fascism
6. Je suis Israel
7. On Montesquieu, Rousseau: Salvation or Noble Savage?
8. Welcome to the Progressive Revolution, Byron!
9. Symposium—Federalists, Anti-Federalists and Utilitarianism
10. Is Hillary too big to fail?
11. Baltimore burning: The collapse of Democrat Socialism slavery in America
12. Cowardly Conservatives: Either govern D.C. or resign
Chapter Three — On Foreign Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #
1. Opening the gates of hell
2. Muslim Brotherhood: Devout (not radical) Islam, Part 1
3. Solidarity with Jews
4. ISIS rising
5. Netanyahu vs. Neville Chamberlain
6. Obama signs Israel’s death warrant in Iran nuclear deal
7. Ghetto life: what Holocaust Democrats taught the Nazis
8. The king has no Kenyan blood
9. Holocaust Democrats, Part 1
10. Holocaust Democrats, Part 2
11. Holocaust Democrats in modern times
12. The Case Against Marine Le Pen: Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité and Fascisme
Chapter Four — On Philosophy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #
1. Symposium—The death of work
2. Hegel’s military deconstructionism
3. On Fate
4. On Socrates: Life and Legacy
5. On Plato’s Theory of Forms
6. On Aristotle and the idea of judgment
7. On Pascal’s God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
8. On Immanuel Kant and reasoning God out of existence
Chapter Five — On Aesthetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . .#
1. Pete ‘Potemkin’ Seeger: Stalin’s little minstrel
2. On Shakespeare: Richard III and Julius Caesar
3. On Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones
4. Picasso: Psychotic pervert or iconic genius?
5. On Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace or War and appeasement?
6. ‘Earn this, earn it!’ – A Memorial Day tribute
7. Requiem for Charleston, S.C.
8. Is Obama the obsolete man?
Chapter Six — On the Academy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .#
1. On Virgil and the necessity of good language
2. Professor Arthur LaBrew and the myth of the American Dream
3. Freshman Falstaff vs. Professor Darwin Dawkins
4. On Einstein’s Annus Mirabilis
5. Proto-Communists and the abolition of family
Chapter Seven — On Psychology and Human Nature
1. 33 years waiting to be interviewed by my Detroit
2. On William James: The Father of Psychology
3. On Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius and the nature of life and death
4. On Plotinus and immorality
5. On Augustine and the theocratic worldview
6. On Milton’s Paradise Lost
7. On Goethe’s Faust
8. On Melville’s Moby Dick and the obsession of self-will
9. On Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov
10. On Sigmund Freud: Pushing society into sexual psychopathy, Part 2
11. Smile for me, Camille Cosby
12. Nazi officer Albert Speer: ‘Good Nazi’ or mass murder?
13. Nazi propaganda… then and now
14. On Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and the complexities of human nature
Chapter Eight — On Economics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #
1. On Education and Economics
2. An Open Letter to the Detroit Economic Club
3. On Karl Marx and the First Principles of evil
4. Uber and the triumph of capitalism
5. Symposium—He brought me out on a crumb
6. Symposium—Lord, sit on me!
Chapter Nine — On Science and Medicine– Mathematics and Engineering
1. On Aristotle and the nature of animals and slaves
2. On Hippocrates, Galen and the nature of ancient medicine
3. On Euclid, Archimedes and First Principles
4. On Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler: When science wasn’t politics
5. On Montaigne: The Father of psychological essays
Chapter Ten — On Culture and Society. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #
1. Alinsky 101: IRS picks the Tea Party to target
2. On Tyranny
3. On Love
4. America the beautiful… America the racist… America the hypocrite!
5. On Dante’s Divine Comedy and the evil of neutrality
6. On Rabelais: A precursor to Oscar Wilde and the celebrity culture
7. Does France reward terrorists?
8. On Swift and Sterne and the rise of modernity
Chapter Eleven — On History
1. On Courage
2. On Plutarch and the idea of citizen
3. Muslim Brotherhood = Devout (not radical) Islam, Part 2
4. Ronald Reagan: 50th anniversary of speech that launched the Conservative Revolution
5. On Edward Gibbon: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Part 1
6. On Edward Gibbon: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Part 2
7. On Hegel: Using dialectic to pervert truth and history
8. Before the Holocaust: Armenian Genocide (1915-18)
9. Hitler’s Reichstag fire and the Progressive pretext for tyranny
10. Dinesh D’Souza’s America
11. Holocaust Democrats and the Night of the Congressional Long Knives
12. Heinrich Himmler: Hitler’s Willing Executioners through antiquity
13. Adolf Hitler: The Early Years (1889-1919)
14. Adolf Hitler: The Middle Years (1920-32)
15. Adolf Hitler: The March to War (1933-39)
16. Adolf Hitler: The Early War Years (1939-42)
17. Adolf Hitler: The Final War Years (1943-45)
Epilogue
Chapter Twelve — Law Review Article (manuscript)UnNatural Law of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
Contents
1. Part I: Prologue to the Progressive Revolution in American Jurisprudence
1. J.B. Thayer: Holmes’ intellectual mentor
2. Judge Richard A. Posner and ‘The American Nietzsche’
Chapter Thirteen
1. Professor Albert Alschuler’s dissent against Justice Holmes
1. Professor Allan Bloom inside the Pagan Arena
2. Contriving a Demigod: Holmes vs. Picasso
Chapter Fourteen
1. Analysis of Justice O.W. Holmes’ Natural Law
A.32 Harvard Law Review 40 (1918)
1. Strawman No. 1: Lovelorn Knight
1. Strawman No. 2: Hegelian Dialectic anyone?
2. Strawman No. 3: Holmes’ Classical UnNatural Law
1. Neo-sophism in Hamlet and Holmes
2. Epilogue: UnNatural Law Jurisprudence and the Foundations of the Progressive Revolution
Endnotes …………………………

Reviews

- Lord Morten Messerschmidt, LLM, Danish member of The European Parliament
  - “I met Ellis Washington first time at Capitol Hill, being invited to speak at a conference on the freedom of speech. There I got to know Ellis as a highly eloquent, analytically gifted and prudent speaker and I am confident that the same qualities will be widely recognized thru the release of these essays. He writes in a critical time on a controversial topic with a clear mind. His literature ought to create awareness on both sides of the Atlantic. I can only endorse the work of Ellis Washington and express my profound hope that it will change the mindset of my generation, too often muted by political correctness and blinded by misperceived ideas of tolerance. ~ Morten Messerschmidt, LLM, Danish member of The European Parliament
— Lord Morten Messerschmidt
- Professor Wlliam Wagner, Professor, Thomas Cooley Law School
  - “Ellis Washington presents a shining, yet alarming look at the dark side of American culture. A must read for anyone who cares about the future of the American nation.” ~ William Wagner, Fmr. Federal District Judge/Professor—Thomas Cooley Law School
— William Wagner, former U.S. Magistrate judge; professor, Thomas M. Cooley Law School
- Atty. Ann Fishman, Founder-Liberty Legal Foundation International
“Ellis Washington is a meticulous historian, keen political analyst and discerning lawyer who writes with the pen of a poet. These gifts are deployed to write a collection of informative essays about the political, legal and philosophical issues of our time. In these essays, Washington traverses the present to the past and back with swan-like elegance and effortlessness to trace the paths that have converged to bring us to the crossroad where we stand today. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to connect the dots between history, politics and morality. Ellis Washington is the Thomas Sowell of his
— Ann Fishman, legal analyst; founder of Liberty Legal Foundation International
- John Whitehead, President-The Rutherford Institute
  - "Ellis Washington is an erudite scholar. Agree or disagree, this book is worth reading."--John W. Whitehead, attorney and author. ~ John Whitehead, Founder/President of The Rutherford Institute, author, The Freedom Wars
— John Whitehead
- Sam Vankin, Editor-in-Chief, GlobalPolitician.com
  - “Whether you agree with his views or not, the author's unflinching political incorrectness and incisive erudition is what is needed to resuscitate academic and socio-political debate in the USA and the West. The epithet 'page-turner' is usually reserved to thrillers, but this cornucopial tome deserves it richly." ~ Sam Vaknin, PhD, Editor-in-Chief, Global Politician, author, Malignant Self-Love
— Sam Vankin
- Professor Walter Williams, George Mason University
  - The Progressive Revolution present us hard-hitting, fearless analysis of the deteriorating state of affairs in our country, plus its fun and enlightening reading. ~ Professor Walter E. Williams, George Mason University, Department of Economics
— Walter Williams, George Mason University
- Prof. Robert D’Agostino, John Marshall Law School
“There is an old saying which in its present iteration states ‘pioneers get slaughtered while settlers prosper.’ Ellis Washington is a pioneer. His insights, observations, and even future projections, despite their accuracy, are almost always ahead of the curve. What he writes today, others will write tomorrow. He just writes before others are ready to listen and the others get the gravy.” ~ Robert D’Agostino, Fmr. Dean & President, John Marshall Law Schoo
— Robert D'Agostino
- Joseph Farah, Founder/Editor, WorldNetDaily.com
  - “Ellis Washington is a gifted writer, analyst, legal scholar and historian. We’re privileged to publish his work in WND. Clarence Thomas should be proud of his protégé.” ~ Joseph Farah, Editor and Chief Executive Officer, WND.com and WND Books
— Joseph Farah, editor and chief executive officer, WND.com and WND Books
- Dr. Levon R. Yuille,
  - "Ellis Washington's treatment of The Progressive Revolution is a necessary inquiry into the effect and consequences of the Progressive Revolution. In examining the results of this concept Washington helps clarify and supply one with the ability to confront, expose and explain the primary product of the Progressive Revolution—Liberal fascism.”~ Dr. Levon R. Yuille, Radio Host, Joshua’s Trail
— Levon R. Yuille