…I would go further. More than muffling Whittaker Chambers’s intellectual thought, Reinsch strangles it. He narrows Chambers’s vistas to his own private passion: conversion passages in Witness (page 83). Fixation aside, nothing is new… Reinsch ditches insight for personal bias.
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(Reprint from “Letters: Muffled—or Strangled?,” published in the January 2011 issue of The New Criterion)
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Filed under: Whittaker Chambers - Subject, Michael Kimmage, Sam Tanenhaus, William F. Buckley Jr.
