If only he had. He, to his credit, befriended Whittaker Chambers, whose autobiography Witness became a canonical text of conservatism. Unfortunately, it injected conservatism with a sour ...

When journalist Whittaker Chambers accuses former State Department official Alger Hiss of being a Communist, in August 1948, Hiss denies it before the House Un-American Activities Committee.

The suit that began it all—the $75,000 libel and slander suit filed against Whittaker Chambers in 1948 by Alger Hiss—was quietly dropped in Baltimore’s federal district court. To answer the ...

While not questioning the “sincerity” of those like Whittaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley (who had her “Come to Jesus” moment appropriately enough in a New England church), she did ...

In his autobiography Witness, Whittaker Chambers recounted that staring at his infant daughter’s ear while feeding her one morning provoked a crisis, ending his atheism. The ear, Chambers ...

Order at the NRO Store, here. And then we have 16 copies of the 1987 paperback edition of Odyssey of a Friend: Whittaker Chambers’ Letters to William F. Buckley, Jr., 1954–1961. Like Overdrive ...