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Witness
MEET THE AUTHOR Whittaker Chambers Jay Vivian Chambers (1901 –1961), known as Whittaker Chambers, was an American editor who denounced his Communist spying and became respected by the American Conservative movement during the 1950s. After early years as a Communist Party member and Soviet spy, he defected from communism (underground and open party) and worked at Time magazine.
Big Sister Is Watching You
Big Sister Is Watching You National Review – December 28, 1957 By Whittaker Chambers Several years ago, Miss Ayn Rand wrote The Fountainhead. Despite a generally poor press, it is said to have sold some four hundred thousand copies. Thus, it became a wonder of the book trade of a kind that publishers dream about after taxes. So Atlas Shrugged had a first printing of one hundred thousand copies. It appears to be slowly climbing the best-seller lists.
The Left Understands the Left
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in the November 16, 1957, issue of National Review, one of hundreds of pieces from the magazine archives that confirm a relentless attention to and battle with the ideology — now politically resurgent under the guise of Democratic Party leaders, in particular Senator Bernie Sanders — that is a true menace to the American project and to unalienable rights.
The Left Understands the Left | National Review
Whittaker Chambers in 1948 (World Telegram & Sun/Library of Congress) ‘Despite all brotherly invective and despite all brotherly arm-twisting, socialism still has more in common with Communism than either of these two has with conservatism.’ Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in the November 16, 1957, issue of National Review, one of hundreds of pieces from the magazine archives that confirm a relentless attention to and battle with the ideology — now politically resurgent...
The Left Understands the Left | National Review
Whittaker Chambers in 1948 (World Telegram & Sun/Library of Congress) ‘Despite all brotherly invective and despite all brotherly arm-twisting, socialism still has more in common with Communism than either of these two has with conservatism.’ Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in the November 16, 1957, issue of National Review, one of hundreds of pieces from the magazine archives that confirm a relentless attention to and battle with the ideology — now politically resurgent...
Witness
Publisher Description #1 New York Times bestseller for 13 consecutive weeks! "As long as humanity speaks of virtue and dreams of freedom, the life and writings of Whittaker Chambers will ennoble and inspire." - PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN "One of the dozen or so indispensable books of the century..." - GEORGE F. WILL "Witness changed my worldview, my philosophical perceptions, and, without exaggeration, my life." - ROBERT D.
Whittaker Chambers
Lothrop, Montana By Whittaker Chambers June 30, 1926 The cottonwoods, the boy-trees, Imberbe 1 — the clean, green, central bodies Standing apart, freely, freely, but trammeled; With the branches inter-resting — for support, Never for caressing, except the wind blow.
The Sanity of St. Benedict
Queen Victoria left this world almost at the moment that I chanced to enter it. Her memory, when I was old enough to identify it, fell thinly across my earliest childhood. People still spoke of “the Queen”, as if in all history there had been only one and everybody must know at once that Queen Victoria was meant.
The University Bookman
It is now 46 years since the death of Whittaker Chambers. His name is still iconic for many conservatives and a catalyst for boiling resentment among left-liberals. In those who know the full story of the Hiss case, and especially in the dwindling number of persons who watched the case unfold in all its Sophoclean finality, the figure of Whittaker Chambers cannot fail to evoke intense emotions.
Ten Books That Shaped America's Conservative Renaissance ~ The Imaginative Conservative
If we are to know and rebuild a conservative civil social order in this country, then we need to “rake from the ashes” of recent American history the books that influenced a generation of conservative scholars and public figures, books whose message resonated with much of the American populace and resulted in astonishing political triumphs. Today’s offering in our Timeless Essay series affords readers the opportunity to join Jeffrey O.
by Whittaker Chambers
Whittaker Chambers has written one of the really significant American autobiographies...penetrating and terrible insights into America in the early twentieth century. --Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Read More Whittaker Chambers has written one of the really significant American autobiographies...penetrating and terrible insights into America in the early twentieth century.
| National Review
EDITOR’S NOTE: 2005 marks the 50th anniversary of National Review. In celebration, NRO will be digging into the NR archives throughout the year. This piece by Whittaker Chambers appeared in the December 28, 1957, issue of NR. Several years ago, Miss Ayn Rand wrote The Fountainhead. Despite a generally poor press, it is said to have sold some four hundred thousand copies. Thus, it became a wonder of the book trade of a kind that publishers dream about after taxes.
EXCLUSIVE: Leaked List of Osama Bin Ladin’s Top-Secret Conservative Book Collection
The list includes an archive of radical right wing books, history books, humor texts, and conservative philosophy belonging to the former al-Qaeda chief, some of which are still being withheld by the U.S. government, but leaked online this afternoon.
Without freedom the soul dies
Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after a condition of freedom. God alone is the inciter and guarantor of freedom. He is the only guarantor. External freedom is only an aspect of interior freedom. Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible. Religion and freedom are indivisible. Without freedom the soul dies. Without the soul there is no justification for freedom.
The best books on Tea Party Conservatism
I read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress when I was a kid and I loved it but I thought it was science fiction. I did not realise there were political implications. What are those, why is it here? Heinlein does two kinds of books. One is political and the other is weird sex. I thought he was a political activist because I was introduced to him through The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. It compares the flawed statist world to the freedom of the anarchist, utopian moon.
Big Sister Is Watching You
EDITOR’S NOTE: 2005 marks the 50th anniversary of National Review. In celebration, NRO will be digging into the NR archives throughout the year. This piece by Whittaker Chambers appeared in the December 28, 1957, issue of NR. Several years ago, Miss Ayn Rand wrote The Fountainhead. Despite a generally poor press, it is said to have sold some four hundred thousand copies. Thus, it became a wonder of the book trade of a kind that publishers dream about after taxes.
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