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Whittaker Chambers , an American writer and editor, was once a Communist party member and Soviet spy. After he renounced communism, he became an outspoken opponent and became most famous or infamous for his testimony against Alger Hiss ten years later, a U.S. State Department employee whom he accused of being a Soviet spy. In [...]
Rod Dreher points to the documentary “Anna’ where Russian filmmaker Nikita Mikhalkov asked his daughter the same questions each year from the time she was six until she was 17 and so documenting her growing moral awareness and maturity. For young parents, this is a great way to capture the lives of your children over [...]
The Past is Alive in Time Capsules Most of us want to be remembered, appreciated, and looked up to. We want a part of our past to be left behind for others to find and to ponder. The existence of time capsules has allowed us to do this. – there are those that are unintentional [...]
Joseph Bottom of First Things on The Judgment of Memory Every memoir of childhood is necessarily overshadowed by parents, and I could find, were I to turn my mind that way, stories of my father’s drinking, his pretension, his bounce. But my father, being dead, is not here either to be triumphed over by my [...]
‘You send your daughter away to study and she doesn’t come back. We will never, ever get over it.’ A quite spectacular murder trial is underway in Italy. British student Meredith Kercher was found murdered in her apartment in the Umbrian town of Perugia, her throat cut. She shared the apartment with an American girl [...]
Ancient Manuscripts in a Digital Age The slideshow In an increasingly digital era, researchers are racing to track down and digitize rare, ancient manuscripts. Father Columba Stewart, a Benedictine monk from Minnesota, is at the forefront of the fight. He’s traveled to Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey and Georgia to search for endangered Christian manuscripts to [...]
Two days after Rodrigo Roseburg made this video in Guatemala City, while riding his bike, he was shot and died on the street. Guatemala in uproar after lawyer predicts his own murder. “If you are hearing this message,” Rosenberg begins, “unfortunately, it is because I have been murdered by the president’s private secretary, Gustavo Alejos, [...]
Maureen Callahan says The final frontier in reality television has been crossed with the broadcast Friday of “Farrah’s Story” But amid this week’s non-stop media coverage of the special, replete with a red-carpet premiere and interviews with her on-again paramour Ryan O’Neal – who, ever the gentleman, referred to Fawcett in the past tense – [...]
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Nathaniel Grimsby, born in 1811 in Kansas, though old when it broke out, fought in the Civil War becoming a second lieutenant and a “picturesque figure”. From When Kansas Was Young by Thomas Allen McNeal He was a Republican without variableness or shadow of turning. To his mind, politically speaking, the Republican party was summum [...]
