Stone Washington column
Stone Washington is a PhD student in the Trachtenberg School at George Washington University. Stone is employed as a Research Fellow for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, focusing on economic policy as part of the Center for Advancing Capitalism. Previously, he completed a traineeship with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He was also a Research Assistant at the Manhattan Institute, serving as an extension from his time in the Collegiate Associate Program. During this time, he worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in Clemson's Department of Political Science and served as a WAC Practicum Fellow for the Pearce Center for Professional Communication. Stone is also a member of the Steamboat Institute's Emerging Leaders Council.
Stone possesses a Graduate Certificate in Public Administration from Clemson University, a Juris Master from Emory University School of Law, and a Bachelor of Arts in History from Clemson University. While studying at Emory Law, Stone was featured in an exclusive JM Student Spotlight, highlighting his most memorable law school experience. He has completed a journalism fellowship at The Daily Caller, is an alumnus of the Young Leader's Program at The Heritage Foundation, and served as a former student intern/Editor forDecipher Magazine. Some of Stone's articles can be found at EllisWashingtonReport.com, which often provide a critical analysis of prominent works of classical literature and its correlations to American history and politics. Stone is a member of the Project 21 Black Leadership Network, and has written a number of policy-related op-eds for the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, The College Fix, Real Clear Policy, and City Journal. In addition, Stone is listed in the Marquis Who's Who in America and is a member of the Golden Key International Honour Society. Friend him on his Facebook page, also his Twitter handle: @StoneZone47 and Instagram. Email him at stonebone20@att.net.
Stone possesses a Graduate Certificate in Public Administration from Clemson University, a Juris Master from Emory University School of Law, and a Bachelor of Arts in History from Clemson University. While studying at Emory Law, Stone was featured in an exclusive JM Student Spotlight, highlighting his most memorable law school experience. He has completed a journalism fellowship at The Daily Caller, is an alumnus of the Young Leader's Program at The Heritage Foundation, and served as a former student intern/Editor for
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October 11, 2024
Successful biotech entrepreneurs recount how a favorable corporate-pharma ecosystem facilitated pathbreaking research that introduced novel medicines
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Stone Washington
June 6, 2024
“A creative adult is a child who survived.” ~ The MB&F perspective on creativity.
“Respected by his peers for the quality of his work and his . . .
Stone Washington
March 30, 2024
“Our constitutional structure does not permit unaccountable private actors to wield governmental power. FINRA has only minimal oversight from an independent . . .
Stone Washington
February 29, 2024
“Woke or conscientious capitalism is a direct result of activist investors pressuring public companies to adopt politically charged policies that fail to . . .
Stone Washington
October 31, 2023
“In Sarbanes-Oxley, Congress employed a phrase: ‘discriminate because of’ that has long been recognized to require a plaintiff to show . . .
Stone Washington
July 13, 2023
“The speed and manner in which the FBI opened and investigated Crossfire Hurricane during the presidential election season based on raw, unanalyzed, . . .
Stone Washington
May 5, 2023
“Justice is supposed to be blind, regardless of race religion or Creed. However, here in Manhattan the scales of Justice are weighed down by politics. For the . . .
Stone Washington
April 1, 2023
“Ordinary Americans are not just being reported to Twitter for de-amplification or de-platforming, but to firms like PayPal, digital advertisers like Xander, . . .
Stone Washington
February 2, 2023
“The ‘Twitter Files’ tell an incredible story from inside one of the world’s largest and most influential social media platforms. It is a . . .
Stone Washington
January 5, 2023
“Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity . . .
Stone Washington
November 4, 2022
A Who’s Who of 2022: Breakdown of Critical Midterm Races and Candidates
With the 2022 Midterm elections right around the corner, the country has seen many . . .
Stone Washington
October 4, 2022
“The art challenges the technology and the technology inspires the art.” ~John Lassetter, film director
“The [Quadriptyque] watch represents Jaeger . . .
Stone Washington
August 30, 2022
"The changing economy was ignored, plans for the change ignored; and only means to destroy revolt were considered, while the causes of revolt went on." ~John . . .
Stone Washington
July 31, 2022
“It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives. ‘The permissibility of abortion, . . .
Stone Washington
June 29, 2022
"President Biden and the people he appointed to key positions in his administration have pursued the most radical open-borders policies in the history of any . . .
Stone Washington
May 25, 2022
“I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I believe free speech is a societal . . .
Stone Washington
March 4, 2022
“We were energy independent one year ago, now we are at the mercy of OPEC, gasoline is selling for $7 in parts of California, going up all over the country, . . .
Stone Washington
January 31, 2022
The United States Solicitor General (SG) operates as the focal point of facilitating smooth relations between a sitting President and the Supreme Court. As . . .
Stone Washington
December 31, 2021
“For Omega, precision is the truest mark of watchmaking excellence. The margins of precision can be measured by mere seconds—seconds that are a testament to . . .
Stone Washington
December 4, 2021
“Right is still right, even if you stand by yourself”
“So long as there are people of character who have the will to lead and have faith in our . . .
Stone Washington
October 19, 2021
“I believe it was God's will that we should come back, so that men might know the things that are in the world, since, as we have said in the first . . .
Stone Washington
September 14, 2021
“It looks like the Biden demonstration has just failed in its execution of its own plan.
It looks like they are now trying to get folks out. This remind me . . .
Stone Washington
August 18, 2021
“There was never man yet, Christian or Saracen, Tartar or Pagan, who explored so much of the world as Messer Marco.”
~ Rustichello of Pisa
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Stone Washington
August 5, 2021
“If anything would make the Court look partisan, it would be that—one side saying, ‘when we’re in power, we’re going to enlarge the number of judges . . .
Stone Washington
June 30, 2021
“Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people—a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, . . .
Stone Washington
June 11, 2021
“Eventually, the public will recognize [Marxists'] ‘critical race fragility’ for what it is: a prickly refusal to submit one’s ideas to vigorous . . .
Stone Washington
May 14, 2021
“This virus has a cure. It is called hydroxychloroquine, zinc, and Zithromax. I know you people want to talk about a mask. Hello? You don’t need a . . .
Stone Washington
April 4, 2021
“Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the . . .
Stone Washington
February 11, 2021
“Black Americans have made the greatest gains over some of the highest hurdles, in the shortest period of time, than any racial group in the history of . . .
Stone Washington
January 2, 2021
In the face of great challenges this year, Americans showed incredible grit, strength tenacity, and resolve, and together we achieved truly historic victories . . .
Stone Washington
December 16, 2020
“This is about restoring faith and confidence in American elections. This is about our democracy and the sacred rights that generations of Americans have . . .
Stone Washington
November 3, 2020
“Success is going to bring us together. We are on the road to success. But I’m cutting taxes, and he [Biden] wants to raise everybody’s taxes and he wants . . .
Stone Washington
October 12, 2020
“Throughout my decade on the bench, I have watched my colleagues strive day in and day out to do just as Socrates said we should – to hear courteously, . . .
Stone Washington
August 29, 2020
“The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremest folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all the . . .
Stone Washington
August 1, 2020
“Flynn’s only crime was going to work for President Trump. He became an unwitting pawn in the FBI’s quest to find evidence of a nonexistent “collusion . . .
Stone Washington
June 30, 2020
“You might as well know now that I intend to fight this outrageous attempt to silence me forever! If I wanted an easy way out, I could just have agreed to the . . .
Stone Washington
May 25, 2020
“Seventy-five years ago today, the last remnants of the Nazi regime unconditionally surrendered to the Allied Powers, marking the end of World War II in . . .
Stone Washington
April 29, 2020
“I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”
~Frederick Douglass
Introducing my 1st book: “Steal . . .
Stone Washington
March 26, 2020
"It is melancholy to record that only a very short time after this victory, which had temporarily united so many of the city-states of Greece, dissension . . .
Stone Washington
March 20, 2020
"Against superior weaponry even the bravest [Persian Immortals] must fail, and when those better weapons were wielded by men [Spartans] whose whole life had . . .
Stone Washington
February 22, 2020
"We are following in the footsteps of our fathers. We are marching to war at the ideal season of the year. We shall conquer all Europe and, without either . . .
Stone Washington
January 31, 2020
"We always say that champions are made when the stands are empty. Championships are won when no one's watching. And we always say that you have to earn it. You . . .
Stone Washington
December 31, 2019
"Looking around and all over this large, magnificent planet, the truth is plain to see: If you want freedom, take pride in your country. If you want democracy, . . .
Stone Washington
December 8, 2019
"He's guilty before the trial even started."
~Tucker Carlson (on the Trial of Roger Stone)
"As someone whose political activism was born from the anti . . .
Stone Washington
October 31, 2019
"I looked at them and said, 'I'm leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you're not getting the money.' Well, son of a b – . He got . . .
Stone Washington
October 1, 2019
"Raymond Shaw is the kindest, warmest, bravest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life, and even now I feel that way – this minute. And yet . . .
Stone Washington
September 3, 2019
"There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues."
~Albert Camus, The Plague
. . .
Stone Washington
July 27, 2019
"What matters is not your outward appearance...but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle gracious kind that God delights in."
. . .
Stone Washington
July 1, 2019
"There are people who wish I wouldn't refer to China as our enemy. But that's exactly what they are. They have destroyed entire industries by utilizing low . . .
Stone Washington
May 15, 2019
"So that is the bottom line. After nearly two years of investigation, thousands of subpoenas, and hundreds of warrants and witness interviews, the Special . . .
Stone Washington
April 3, 2019
"[T]he investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference . . .
Stone Washington
March 1, 2019
"The lawless state of our southern border is a threat to the safety, security, and financial well-being of all Americans. We have a moral duty to create an . . .
Stone Washington
January 31, 2019
"For the man, the watch is the single greatest self-expressive object he wears; it is his jewel and to be without a watch, for many men, is to be totally . . .
Stone Washington
December 26, 2018
"In less than two years, my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country."
"In other words, the United . . .
Stone Washington
November 14, 2018
"We just have today. Over and over and over again, the eternal return. The hero's journey. And... Trump is on his hero's journey right now. And he might not . . .
Stone Washington
October 30, 2018
"If he [Donald Trump] don't look good, we don't look good. This is our President! He has to be the freshest, the flyest, the flyest planes, the best factories. . . .
Stone Washington
October 1, 2018
"Well, I was taken down not because we lie, but because we tell the truth. And because we were popular. And because we dared go to that committee hearing . . .
Stone Washington
August 29, 2018
"Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions."
~Niccolo Machiavelli, The . . .
Stone Washington
July 22, 2018
"As long as there is breath in me, and the breath of God in my nostrils, my lips will not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit. Far be it from me . . .
Stone Washington
June 28, 2018
"Anyone can make war, but only the most courageous can make peace."
~President Donald J. Trump
Introduction to the U.S-North Korean Summit
On Tuesday, . . .
Stone Washington
May 31, 2018
"Remember this moment. This is history. President [Donald] Trump, by recognizing history, you have made history. All of us are deeply moved. All of us are . . .
Stone Washington
April 19, 2018
"Every city in our country has this kind of dualism, this schizophrenia, split at so many parts, and so every city ends up being two cities rather than one. . . .
Stone Washington
March 20, 2018
"For more than four decades, this event has served as a forum for our nation's top leaders, activists, writers, and thinkers. Year after year, leaders have . . .
Stone Washington
February 26, 2018
"The FBI mislead and personally deceived a Federal court while using an unverified, completely phony opposition research, bought and paid for by Hillary . . .
Stone Washington
January 28, 2018
"This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not . . .
Stone Washington
December 30, 2017
"We stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the Earth from the miseries of disease, and to harness the . . .
Stone Washington
December 1, 2017
Batman...returns??
"Folk hero [Batman]. I'm the folk hero. I'm the only one strong enough to see the city [Gotham] for what it is: a fallacy. A construct . . .
Stone Washington
November 20, 2017
"Say it. 'Damn all of them. There's only me.' Say it. Say it! Because the city was built on divisions. Dead flower dolls. Gotham isn't some tame garden! It's a . . .
Stone Washington
October 25, 2017
"No cause ever in the history of all mankind, has produced more cold-blooded tyrants, more slaughtered innocents, and more orphans than socialism with power . . .
Stone Washington
October 5, 2017
"As judges you can't ask us to play God, to do what we think is right, because if we do that, we bastardize the most important principle we live by which is . . .
Stone Washington
September 16, 2017
"Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them . . .
Stone Washington
August 21, 2017
"O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason. Bear with me; my heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, and I must pause . . .
Stone Washington
August 2, 2017
Open your mind before your mouth.
~ Aristophanes
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
~ . . .
Stone Washington
July 15, 2017
"Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a Revolution; one makes the Revolution in order to . . .
Stone Washington
June 20, 2017
Commissioner Gordon, in mechanized suit, patrolling Gotham as the New Batman
"There is a secret corner of nature we're only now just discovering. A dark . . .
Stone Washington
May 29, 2017
Commissioner Gordon and robotic suit posing as the new Batman
"And here you are, an extension of the very system that's failed them so many times, but a . . .
Stone Washington
April 22, 2017
"Judges should be in the business of declaring what the law is using the traditional tools of interpretation, rather than pronouncing the law as they might . . .
Stone Washington
March 20, 2017
Super villain, Don Quixote Doflamingo lounging while talking on his phone
Former President, Barack Obama talking on the phone with his foot on the . . .
Stone Washington
February 6, 2017
"We stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the earth from the miseries of disease, and to harness the . . .
Stone Washington
January 17, 2017
"I'm just telling you, only God can do this. 8 years ago, Terry Don Phillips gave me a chance to lead this program. We set out to put Clemson on top. We . . .
Stone Washington
December 22, 2016
Judge Bork before the Senate Judiciary Committee on his failed Supreme Court nomination July 1,
1987
"If revisionists can ignore the most solemnly and . . .
Stone Washington
November 28, 2016
"Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting."
~Sun Tzu, The Art of War
"Sometimes by . . .
Stone Washington
November 2, 2016
The Joker/Obama atop his Throne of Casualties – aka We the People. Yet... We will rise again!
"Because I'm the one who laughs, you get it?! I've . . .
Stone Washington
October 20, 2016
The Joker, a classic psychopath and narcissist who doesn't work . . .
Stone Washington
September 25, 2016
"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams – this may be madness. Too . . .
Stone Washington
August 27, 2016
"I will view as president the world through the clear lens of American interests. I will be America's greatest defender and most loyal champion. We will not . . .
Stone Washington
July 31, 2016
"A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time"
"There is no greater fame for a man than that which . . .
Stone Washington
July 6, 2016
"Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter"
~ Hector, Iliad
. . .
Stone Washington
April 4, 2016
"My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you had responsibilities, . . .
Stone Washington
March 9, 2016
GOP Candidates at the Fox Theatre, Detroit, Michigan
The 11th Republican National Debate occurred at the historic Fox Theatre in Detroit, Michigan last . . .
Stone Washington
February 29, 2016
The Death of Socrates (1787) by Jacques-Louis David. The final moments before Socrates drinks the poison hemlock, surrounded by his grief-stricken . . .
Stone Washington
January 28, 2016
"I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, . . .
Stone Washington
December 30, 2015
"Without the Jedi, there can be no balance in the Force."
~ Lor San Tekka
"There has been an Awakening... have you felt it? The Dark-side and the . . .
Stone Washington
November 15, 2015
"Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood."
~ . . .
Stone Washington
October 15, 2015
"Just a war of the mind. What is war, if not a battle between two strategies?"
~ The Riddler
"Maybe that's what Batman is about. Not winning. But . . .
Stone Washington
September 12, 2015
You're making us all watch. The whole city. You shut us out and punish us night after night, as you go out there and protect those we can't.
But if you do . . .
Stone Washington
August 15, 2015
"Because at the end of the day, what people are afraid of is the nothing of it. The randomness. The empty center. Stare into it and try to find meaning. You'll . . .
Stone Washington
August 3, 2015
"For seeing they saw not, and hearing they understood not, but like shapes in a dream they wrought all the days of their lives in confusion."
"It is an easy . . .
Stone Washington
July 10, 2015
Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.
And my lawyer, rolling up one of his sleeves, said with finality, "Here we . . .
Stone Washington
June 23, 2015
"But as to honour, justice, wisdom, and learning, they should not be taxed at all; because they are qualifications of so singular a kind, that no man will . . .
Stone Washington
June 5, 2015
"He shall be found at once brother and father of the children with whom he consorts; son and husband of the woman who bore him; heir to his father's bed, . . .
Stone Washington
May 15, 2015
"We are shaped by what we love."
"For if a priest be foul, on whom we trust, No wonder is a common man should rust."
~Geoffrey . . .
Stone Washington
April 19, 2015
"The hunters' thoughts were crowded with memories of the knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like . . .
Stone Washington
April 8, 2015
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
~ Booker T. Washington (quote in my father's office)
Happy . . .
Stone Washington
March 16, 2015
"And there you are Bats... chasing us, forever chasing! And why? Because it's what you want to happen. It's what you need. Because you see, with us you're more! . . .
Stone Washington
March 4, 2015
"Eyes that let in no light, that see through the darkness, stare into you, each pupil a tiny black pearl fixed in space. A bullet coming at you. Eyes that say . . .
Stone Washington
February 11, 2015
"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 . . .
Stone Washington
January 4, 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 . . .
Stone Washington
September 20, 2014
"It's a story as old as Man, Bruce. Two brothers. Sons of a fabled line. Like Romulus and Remus! Eteocles and Polynices! Bruce and Thomas, sons of Gotham. Meant . . .
Stone Washington
August 18, 2014
"Yes...I remember now. The bats had simply hidden deeper in the caves. In the darkest parts the owls couldn't tolerate. And when the bats came back... it was . . .
Stone Washington
July 27, 2014
So, when this loose behaviour I throw off,
And pay the debt I never promised,
By how much better than my word I am,
By so much shall I falsify men's . . .
Stone Washington
June 26, 2014
"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 . . .
Stone Washington
April 21, 2014
Dystopia – human baby extraction and incubation
"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want . . .
Stone Washington
February 16, 2014
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 . . .
Stone Washington
December 27, 2013
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 . . .
Stone Washington
October 25, 2013
'We have facts,' they say. Facts are not everything – at least half the business lies in how you interpret them.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and . . .
Stone Washington
August 24, 2013
All animals are eqval, bvt some animals are more eqval than others.
~ George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945)
Prologue to 'We the Animals'
Although the novel . . .
Stone Washington
July 12, 2013
"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 . . .
Stone Washington
July 2, 2013
Ahab is a strange man who lost his leg to a monstrous whale on his last voyage. Confined to his cabin due to a strange sickness, the captain has been in a . . .
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