The Forward1mon
75 years after the birth of McCarthyism, scoundrel time returns to America
(While Trumbo spoke, the committee chair kept pounding his gavel until it broke.) Whittaker Chambers, witness at the perjury trial of Alger Hiss, 1948. Photo by Getty Images Others include labor ...
National Review7y
Overdrive Now Available. Odyssey Too (Not Homer’s).
Order at the NRO Store, here. And then we have 16 copies of the 1987 paperback edition of Odyssey of a Friend: Whittaker Chambers’ Letters to William F. Buckley, Jr., 1954–1961. Like Overdrive ...
Time18d
THE ADMINISTRATION: Question of Security
A veteran diplomat who became chief of the State Department’s Office of Chinese Affairs, Clubb got into trouble after Whittaker Chambers testified that he had once (1932) seen him in the offices ...
National Review1y
The Case for a Theocentric Right
In his autobiography Witness, Whittaker Chambers recounted that staring at his infant daughter’s ear while feeding her one morning provoked a crisis, ending his atheism. The ear, Chambers ...