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TLS Letters to the Editor: Harry Dexter White
By David Chambers On 2013.04.30 · 3 Comments · In Biography, Espionage, Hiss Case, History, Review - Book, Reviews
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Published: 26 April 2013
Sir, – Eric Rauchway‘s review of Benn Steil‘s book The Battle of Bretton Woods contains a common mistake about my grandfather, Whittaker Chambers. He did not defect in 1938 “after a [...]
Forty years ago today, Max Bedacht died on July 4, 1972. He was a socialist revolutionary, born in Germany, who helped establish the Communist Party of America. He headed the International Workers Order.
Bedacht is also the person who recruited Whittaker Chambers into the Communist underground, according to [...]
The Sanity of Saint Benedict
By David Chambers On 2012.07.01 · Leave a Comment · In Biography, Current Affairs, History, Politics
Writing for Commonweal magazine, Whittaker Chambers continued his musings on the meaning of history with this article in September 1952. After some childhood reminisces, he recalls the power words of an instructor in Contemporary Civilization: “the world is entering upon a new Dark Ages.” He ponders [...]
The Hissiad: A Correction
By David Chambers On 2012.06.02 · Leave a Comment · In Biography, Espionage, Hiss Case, History, Politics
One of Whittaker Chambers‘s last articles defended the rights of Alger Hiss: read “The Hissiad: A Correction.”
The Baffling Harry White
By David Chambers On 2012.05.22 · 3 Comments · In Biography, Espionage, Hiss Case, History, Politics
[This article first appeared in HNN]
I write in response to Benn Steil‘s New York Times op-ed “Banker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,” Joan White Pinkham‘s New York Times letter to the editor “A Case from the Cold War,” and
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.”
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
A Westminster Letter: Springhead to Springhead
By David Chambers On 2012.03.24 · Leave a Comment · In Biography, Current Affairs, History, Politics
A Westminster Letter: Springhead to Springhead
National Review – February 31, 1958
Living as we do in the wake of the 2007 recession and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, how were government subsidies affecting working folk back in the 1950s — especially American farmers?
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