With the Precision of a Bullet
Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic Michael Scammell (New York: Random House, 2009) It takes talent to write about someone else’s interesting life in a book that...
View ArticleIll Fares the Land: Tony Judt
Ill Fares the Land Tony Judt (New York: Penguin, 2010) Ill Fares the Land makes for a brisk if chilling read. “We have entered an age of insecurity: economic insecurity, physical insecurity, political...
View ArticleAtlantic Shrugs Atlas
The Atlantic picks a very helpful quote from Ayn Rand‘s 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged that goes a long way to explain why Whittaker Chambers’s review makes sense: Bill Buckley once said he thought...
View ArticleTLS: Harry Dexter White, Whittaker Chambers
The Times Literary Supplement issue of April 5, 2013, published a review called “How the Soviets Saved Capitalism,” written by UC Davis professor Eric Rauchway. It reviews Benn Steil The Battle of...
View ArticleTLS Letters to the Editor: Harry Dexter White
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Harry Dexter White Published: 26 April 2013 Sir, – Eric Rauchway‘s review of Benn Steil‘s book The Battle of Bretton Woods contains a common mistake about my grandfather,...
View ArticleHiss Case in Hollywood
The Hiss Case nosed its way into popular culture via Hollywood in shorts like “Dunked in the Deep” (1949) with the Three Stooges and in Alfred Hitchcock‘s spy-romance-thriller North By Northwest...
View ArticleTIME Remembers Grapes of Wrath
This week’s TIME magazine issue includes an article called “‘We’re the People’: John Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath at 75” by long-time movie critic and editor Richard Corliss. Corliss contextualizes the...
View ArticleAnother Hiss: Duncan Chaplin Lee
A reviewer argues with author Mark A. Bradley that American spy Duncan Chaplin Lee
View ArticleBambi 1928-2022
1928 Cover of Bambi: A Life in the Woods, illustrated by Kurt Wiese, translated by Whittaker Chambers The Wall Street Journal published a letter to the editor in reply to its recent review of one of...
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