[Christopher Hitchens 2010, by John Huba/Vanity Fair]
Yesterday’s death of Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) marks the beginning of the end of Cold War-born intellectuals. The timing of his birth ensured that a mind like Hitchens’ would confront the issues of his day head-on. Thus, Hitchens wrote about Whittaker Chambers perhaps [...]
[260 Rochester Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, circa December 1948]
Not everyone in the family escaped after Whittaker Chambers defected from the Soviet underground in April 1938.
On November 17, 1948, Whittaker Chambers returned for pre-trial examination with Alger Hiss. With him, he brought the “Baltimore Papers.” These papers formed the bulk [...]
[Marx-Engels-Forum, Berlinerdom (February 8, 2007)]
[This article also appeared in The American Mercury.]
Whittaker Chambers died 50 years ago today at the age of 60. Much in the world has changed since then. What might he think about world affairs today, were he still [...]
Ill Fares the Land: Tony Judt
By David Chambers On 2010.05.21 · Leave a Comment · In Current Affairs, History, Politics, Review - Book, Reviews
Ill Fares the Land
Tony Judt
(New York: Penguin, 2010)
Ill Fares the Land makes for a brisk if chilling read. “We have entered an age of insecurity: economic insecurity, physical insecurity, political insecurity,” it begins. “The last time a cohort of young [...]
With the Precision of a Bullet
By David Chambers On 2009.12.20 · Leave a Comment · In Biography, Espionage, History, Review - Book, Reviews
Koestler:
The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic
Michael Scammell
(New York: Random House, 2009)
It takes talent to write about someone else’s interesting life in a book that is interesting itself. The biographer would have to be, say, an author, scholar and translator. [...]
Alger Hiss and the Battle for History
Susan Jacoby
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009)
Susan Jacoby is a gifted writer. She is deft and light. As a grandchild of Whittaker Chambers (who was another gifted writer, if rarely so light), I looked forward to Alger Hiss and [...]
Comment on “Declassified Documents Reveal KGB Spies in U.S.” by Alex Kingsbury:
Mr. Kingsbury,
The Hiss Case was a bit more complicated than you say, and the results more conclusive.
During 1948, both Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers lied under oath, but the nature of [...]
[Cy Oggins in 1938 and 1947]
During Power Line’s interview on September 21, 2008, The Lost Spy author Andrew Meier stated:
“[Whittaker] Chambers always said that he had been sent to Europe, and it’s a big debate among sort of scholars of the Hiss Case. It’s [...]
Your article “Trial’s Lesson: Just Take the Fifth” (Politics & Economics, March 7) may have stretched matters comparing the perjury cases of Lewis “Scooter” Libby and Alger Hiss. Following its logic, the statute of limitations always protected Mr. Hiss, so his only legal risk in [...]
I met Ralph de Toledano only last year.
I had come back to Washington, after many years and was reading Notes from the Underground when I found this passage:
Oct. 18, 1960
Dear Ralph,
The Montero is marvelous. [I had sent him a recording of Germaine Montero [...]
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