… and Our time. Mark Groubert. “Whittaker Chambers is best known today as the veteran Soviet spy who became, in William F. Buckley Jr.’s words, “the most important American defector from Communism” when he testified against members of his underground Communist cell in the 1930s. Yet Chambers did more than reject Communism: He revealed a key problem with modern liberalism. In his now-classic autobiography Witness, he argued that Communism ought to be rejected in the name of something other than 20th-century modern liberalism by showing how the two grew out of a common ideology that places unbounded confidence in state power. As he remarked, New Deal acolytes had no principled reason for opposing unlimited state intrusion into the social, economic, and political realms. Herein lies the source of Chambers’ ongoing relevance: While Communism stands discredited, many still accept its fundamental conceit that man makes his own reality and that the government is the solution to all our ills.”  Chambers was a Senior Editor for TIME magazine.—- Richard Reinsch

Listen to Witness by Whittaker Chambers on Audible. Or, better, get the book.

“This legendary raconteur (Mark Groubert) has known virtually everyone and been everywhere in his epic lifetime and eclectic careers in media, writing and editing, in magazines, tabloids, newspapers, television and radio, books, feature film and documentary screenwriter and producer. He is one of the great freelance journalislts and survivors in the disparate competitive literary and artistic cultures of the late 20th century and early 21st centuries.”— Charles Burris, Lew Rockwell

+ Greg Forster. Who was Whittaker Chambers? Listen.

⚠️ strong language warning

See also Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case  by Allen Weinstein

“When the Hiss-Chambers case first burst on the scene in 1948, its main characters and events seemed more appropriate to spy fiction than to American reality. The major historical authority on the case, Perjury was first published in 1978. Now, in its latest edition, Perjury links together the old and new evidence, much of it previously undiscovered or unavailable, bringing the Hiss-Chambers’s amazing story up to the present.”

Richard Nixon on Whittaker Chambers, Alger Hiss

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Dr. Ben Carson, famous neurosurgeon, former Presidential candidate, and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Donald Trump, said to Tucker Carlson regarding Kamala Harris:

“She is a politician, and she’s interested in the accumulation of power and control. I think she believes in government, like most Marxists. I think she is a Marxist.”

+ C-Span: The Venona revelations regarding global Soviet espionage abroad and here