One Friday afternoon Dexter asked me if I’d like to go out to dinner tomorrow with the greatest spy in American history: Alger Hiss. Public Enemy Number One. “Alger Hiss!” I cried. “The Alger Hiss?” ...
Some Further Thoughts on the End of the Virginia Gerrymander Reform’s Big Day Intel Is the Beneficiary of More Trump Capitalism The Virginia Supreme Court Rescues Republicans from Outer Darkness ...
Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? Alger Hiss may have been the defendant, but a whole generation was put on ...
In the new issue of Harper’s magazine, a small article appears that claims Alger Hiss was innocent. Hiss, who died in 1996, was a high-ranking State Department official in the 1930s and ’40s. Hiss was ...
As Alger Hiss walked out of the Lewisburg (Pa.) federal penitentiary in December 1954—on parole after serving 44 months of a five-year sentence for perjury —he carried under his arm a package wrapped ...
In a cramped front bedroom on the second floor of a narrow rowhouse in Georgetown, 80-year-old Timothy Hobson declares, “This is where I was laid up with a broken leg.” It was so long ago, the winter ...
“The other curious thing about the Hiss case is the psychology of believing that Hiss was a spy, which requires abandoning much of what we know about rational thought.” I knew that my Alger Hiss ...
Alger Hiss was a prominent New Dealer who accompanied Franklin Roosevelt to Yalta and was later revealed to be a Soviet agent. He advised FDR to trust Stalin’s assurances that he would be a ...
Another sign of the left is losing its mind and overplaying its hand in the Trump-Russia saga is the sudden obsession and fulmination over a Russian woman named Mariia Butina. “Republicans Have an ...
ALGER HISS: WHY HE CHOSE TREASON By Christina Shelton Threshold Editions, $26, 352 pages “Alger Hiss: Why He Chose Treason” rehashes the historical episode we aficionados call “The Case.” In 1948, ...
In the closing days of the campaign, the long-simmering “softness to Communists” issue finally came to full boil. Two weeks before, the Republicans had opened an all-out attack with a nationwide TV ...
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