Posts by Bruce Edward Walker
April 20, 2017
Go see The Promise, a movie opening nationwide tomorrow. Hollywood has mostly ignored the Armenian genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Turks during World War I, and subsequently pursued by the Turkish Republic. Continue Reading...
April 06, 2017
Intellectuals vs Freedom
February 21, 2017
When morality evaporates
When Tzvetan Todorov died on Feb. 7, the Bulgarian/French philosopher and literary critic was lamented only in certain intellectual ghettoes. To the men and women eulogizing Todorov in these circles, he was feted properly if not stingily, which is most unfortunate. Continue Reading...
December 14, 2016
Trump nominee Betsy DeVos makes Interfaith Alliance naughty list
December 13, 2016
A ‘Pinocchio’ Rating for Pope Francis
December 08, 2016
‘Lies and Lethargies’ in Koestler’s The Age of Longing
December 07, 2016
A poetic tonic for today’s psychic distress
November 01, 2016
Review: John Zmirak’s ‘Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism’
Michael Hamburger, a Jew born in Germany and exiled in England in 1933, borrowed the persona of the previous century’s German Romantic poet Friedrich Holderlin to express in verse the madness of the modern world. Continue Reading...
May 26, 2016
Religious activists a ‘dismal failure’ at ExxonMobil and Chevron meetings
May 23, 2016