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Entry: Whittaker Chambers Versus Ayn Rand Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/whittaker_chambers_versus_ayn_rand#7814 Post contents: A few years ago, on the recomendation of Ann Coultier in one of her stupid tirades, I decided to procure a use copy of Witness, just for laughs. I was totally blown away! The book contains some of the best writing in the English language, ever, period. It is also a nightmarish vision written at the one point in history when the Soviet block might have actually judoed the West into submission. Chambers writes as if it is his last will and testiment, expecting the knock on the door at any moment. Well, that was 1949, but the National Review is culpable in a way that Chambers is not with the yearly increasing benefit of historical perspective. Eventually the Soviet Union became a joke...and now the neocons are down to bearded fanatics hiding in caves as the dragon which is threatening the valiant military industrial complex. Chambers was an authentic voice of moral conversion, but for his self proclaimed heirs from Ann Coulteir to the National Review, it will always be 1949. The difference is that Chambers expected the knock at the door, while they want to go a knock'in! Sent at: 2008 07 24