Whittaker Chambers
Whittaker Chambers
Whittaker Chambers, born Jay Vivian Chambers and also known as David Whittaker Chambers, was an American writer and editor. After his early years as a Communist Party USA member and Soviet spy, he renounced communism, became an outspoken opponent, and testified at Alger Hiss's perjury and espionage trial. He described both events in his book Witness, published in 1952...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth1 April 1901
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
The crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God.
The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure with a consequent general softening of the fibers of will, intelligence, spirit.
In 1937, I began, like Lazarus, the impossible return.
Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.