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 ...

The Alger Hiss/Whittaker Chambers affair, in which the disheveled former Communist Party member Chambers revealed the slick, erudite diplomat Hiss to be a Soviet agent (with a lot of help from an ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alger Hiss, a former US State Department official, was exposed as a Soviet spy by Whittaker Chambers, a self-confessed former communist. Hiss was convicted and imprisoned in 1950. Ethel and Julius ...

Ripped from the Headlines Mary Ann Nichols, 43, is found murdered August 31, 1888, in London's poor Whitechapel district, her ...