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[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 [...]
Ill Fares the Land: Tony Judt
By David Chambers On 2010.05.21 · Leave a Comment · In Current Affairs, History, Politics, Review - Book, Reviews
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 [...]
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 [...]
Your article “Trial’s Lesson: Just Take the Fifth” (Politics & Economics, March 7) may have stretched matters comparing the perjury cases of Lewis “Scooter” Libby and Alger Hiss. Following its logic, the statute of limitations always protected Mr. Hiss, so his only legal risk in [...]
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