The Social Pathologist

Let me first begin by saying that this is a very good book, not for its writing style but for the scientific data it presents with regard to...

From the book Before the Deluge: A portrait of Berlin in the 1920's. The survivors smile now at the madness of 1923[ Ed: Wiemar Hyperi...

Whittaker Chambers died in 1961, never completing his epilogue to Witness. After his death, his wife and his friend Duncan Norton-Taylor, ...

(Some explanatory notes. Chambers considered Socialism, Leftism of any kind and Communism to be essentially the same ideologies, differing...

( Germany's children are starving, 1924. Kathe Kollwitz) In the years when Communism was advancing successfully against the West there...

September 1954 Dear Willi: History tells me that the rock-core of the Conservative Position, or any fragment of it, can be held realist...

For some must at last have eyes to see the plain fact that the revolutionary proletariat in the West (including Russia) is not, and never ha...

August 5, 1954 Dear Bill: I no longer believe that political solutions are possible for us. I am baffled by the way people still speak ...

March 2, 1954 Dear Dunc: Let's talk about the article on the Conservative Position. I do not see how you could be anything but dist...

In the previous post commentator JMSmith made the following comment. He was, as I recall from Witness, and as these passages seem to confi...

Whittaker Chambers was both religious and conservative in his youth. In Cold Friday he describes his experience of Columbia University in t...

Whittaker Chambers suffered from Heart disease and this following passage was written whilst in hospital recovering from a heart attack. As ...