In his third article for National Review in 1957, Whittaker Chambers looked at “The Left on the Left.”
Publisher Jack Fowler has kindly shared the complete articles written by Whittaker Chambers and published by founder William F. Buckley, Jr., in National Review from 1957 to 1959: http://whittakerchambers.org/articles/nr/
We will post announcements are articles go online.
Prince Charming of New South Wales, Australia, has dubbed 1948 testimony of Whittaker Chambers into the song “Videotape” by Radiohead from their 2007 album In Rainbows to create his own special music, “Videotape (Tragedy of History).
Also appearing are the voices of Winston Churchill,
[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
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
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 [...]
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