From the monthly archives: April 2012

A Reminder

By On 2012.04.29 · Leave a Comment · In Biography

A reader catches out a repeated phrase in Whittaker Chambers‘ writings. His reply takes readers from Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius to Antonov-Avseenko, who led the attack by the Red Guard on the Winter Palace in 1917.

Read “A Reminder.”

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RIP: Virginia Freedom

By On 2012.04.07 · Leave a Comment · In Current Affairs, Politics

Whittaker Chambers reminisces about the (then) late Mrs. Leon Freedom AKA Virginia Freedom of Baltimore, who bumped in him in a Baltimore department store, starting “Mr. C? I must talk to you.”

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Eleventy-One

By On 2012.04.01 · Leave a Comment · In Biography

Whittaker Chambers was born this day in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: today would be his eleventy-first birthday.

Of his own birth, he wrote:
I was born in Philadelphia, on April 1, 1901. When my father, Jay Chambers, who was then a young staff artist on the

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