Jan 25, 2023
Photo: Craig Whitehead on Unsplash
The backdrop of this case is American Communism — infatuation
with it and disillusionment with it. Communism predicted a
violent upheaval that would produce a better life. In actual
practice, it produced only drab, poverty-stricken dictatorships
that killed and starved millions. ...
Jan 18, 2023
Whittaker Chambers tries to have a peaceful life, working a
farm and becoming a high-paid and powerful editor at Time
Magazine. But his past in the Soviet underground won’t go
away. Stalin’s pact with Hitler impels him to inform the
government about the underground. Worse, from time to time
government...
Jan 11, 2023
Picture: Library of
Congress
Meet Whittaker Chambers: brilliant, melodramatic, painfully
sincere, perpetually discontented and idealistic, and physically
hard to forget; writer of controversial poems, plays, short
stories, and communist journalism; and, as spymaster for Soviet
Military Intelligence, traitor to the...
Jan 4, 2023
Meet Alger Hiss: Johns Hopkins, Harvard Law, Supreme Court clerk, left Wall Street to join a New Deal farming agency, counsel to a Senate Committee at age 30, aide to president Roosevelt at Yalta, Secretary General of the UN’s founding conference, President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace . . . and...