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
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?
Speak No Evil
National Review printed an article on the 50th anniversary of Whittaker Chambers‘ death that the Whittaker Chambers Family found most disappointing. As its author has updated the piece, below we are republishing our comments to the magazine and to him (in addition to our own observations [...]
[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 [...]
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. [...]
[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 [...]
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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