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In what turned out to be his final article for National Review, Whittaker Chambers predicted Google (he mentioned “googols) and the Internet as he described the modern marvels of education by television. He was a bit fearful of its portent, but in fact he himself was already [...]
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.”
In one of the last pieces Whittaker Chambers wrote for National Review, he turns again to the space race, whose missiles threatened human survival — a threat whose “basic reality” is “so novel that many cannot credit it. They simply cannot take it seriously.”
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
In early 1959, Whittaker Chambers remained fascinated by the advent of jets, rockets, and Sputnik. He ponders earlier arms races over the past two centuries in “Some Westminster Notes.”
During the 1958 elections, Whittaker Chambers recalls “a peculiarly braced sobriety” for a Democratic sweep the 1952 elections, writing:
The Republicans had lost touch with reality in all directions, and in all groupings, until domestic policy resembled irresolution tempered by expediency, and foreign policy more and more resembled something like eccentricity.
[...]
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 reminisces about the (then) late Mrs. Leon Freedom AKA Virginia Freedom of Baltimore, who bumped in him in a Baltimore department store, starting “Mr. C? I must talk to you.”
Enjoy “RIP: Virginia Freedom.”
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