Bruce Edward Walker, a Michigan-based writer, writes frequently on the arts and other topics for the Acton Institute.
Recent Articles by Bruce Edward Walker
Forsaking great story for politics: HUAC, blacklists and 'High Noon'
Another sign of the politicization of all aspects of our culture is the latest Criterion Channel tagline for the 1951 film High Noon: “One of the most politically resonant of all Hollywood
When morality evaporates
When Tzvetan Todorov died on February 7, the Bulgarian/French philosopher and literary critic was lamented only in certain intellectual ghettoes. To the men and women eulogizing Todorov in
Clobbering free speech with the Constitution
Former Wyoming Republican Sen. Alan Simpson announced his support this week for a 28 th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would overturn Citizens United. According to Simpson, the
God or man? Whittaker Chambers’ 'Witness' at 65
The 1989 collapse of the Berlin Wall and subsequent disintegration of the USSR in the 1990s was cause for celebration throughout the world. Finally, the Cold War was ended – or so most of us
Utopias Denied: Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon at 75
Back in the 1970s and early 1980s, Public Broadcasting aired a television series titled “Meeting of the Minds