In January 1950, Alger Hiss, a former State Department employee and Director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, was convicted of perjury after being charged with spying for the ...

As the congressional investigations of Communism went into their third week, one fact stood out in everyone’s mind: someone was lying in his teeth. The someone was either handsome, 43-year-old Alger ...

Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? Victor Navasky delivered these remarks at the “Alger Hiss and History ...

This is the eighteenth in a series about a journey, by train and bicycle, across Russia to Crimea shortly before the war began. Before and after my bicycle ride to Livadia Palace on the Crimean shore ...

Alger Hiss' most personal comments appear in four short paragraphs at the end of his book. Summing up, Hiss writes: The ordeal of fighting false charges has disrupted my life and has brought pain to ...

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