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Remembering Doris Lessing: Political Correctness
By David Chambers On 2013.11.17 · Leave a Comment · In Art, Biography, Current Affairs, History, Politics
British writer Doris Lessing died in London today, aged 94. She had become a communist in the 1940s about the time she married Gottfried Lessing but had abandoned such ideas by 1949.
In 1992, Lessing wrote and lectured about “Unexamined Mental Attitudes Left Behind By Communism.” A brief of that [...]
Whittaker Chambers died 52 years ago today: reprinted here is TIME magazine’s obituary for its former senior editor, “Historical Notes: Death of the Witness
TIME’s March 5, 1945, edition carried something unusual in its pages: a “political fairy story” called “The Ghosts on the Roof” — most recently cited as a top piece in Time: 85 Years of Great Writing (2008).
Seven ghosts settle on the roof of the Livadia Palace [...]
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 [...]
TLS: Harry Dexter White, Whittaker Chambers
By David Chambers On 2013.04.24 · Leave a Comment · In Espionage, Hiss Case, History, Review - Book, Reviews
The Times Literary Supplement issue of April 5, 2013, published a review called “How the Soviets Saved Capitalism,” written by UC Davis professor Eric Rauchway.
It reviews Benn Steil The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the making of a [...]
The Atlantic picks a very helpful quote from Ayn Rand‘s 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged that goes a long way to explain why Whittaker Chambers’s review makes sense:
Bill Buckley once said he thought Whittaker Chambers had gone too far when [...]
[Whittaker Chambers, circa 1920s]
The website of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has recounted the conviction of Alger Hiss 63 years ago this month in its blog “A Byte Out of History.”
It characterizes the 18-month ordeal by stating, “The central issue of the trial was espionage.”
The [...]
Nearly seven decades ago, Whittaker Chambers wrote TIME‘s cover story “Christmas 1945.”
Back then, it was “the first Christmas without war” for seven years: for Christmas 2012, Americans remain fighting in Afghanistan after more than a decade. Back then, Chambers was concerned about “the Bomb”: sadly, that fear remains [...]
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