Whittaker Chambers and Solzhenitsyn
/In a probing new piece over at American Mind, our own Daniel J. Mahoney pays tribute to Whittaker Chambers on the 70th anniversary of the publication of his extraordinary memoir, Witness. Chambers, who “did not return from Hell with empty hands,” in André Malraux’s memorable formulation, shared with Solzhenitsyn a dim view of man’s ability to orient himself morally if “blind to the things of the spirit.”