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 ...
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? Alger Hiss may have been the defendant, but a whole generation was put on ...
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 ...
As Alger Hiss walked out of the Lewisburg (Pa.) federal penitentiary in December 1954—on parole after serving 44 months of a five-year sentence for perjury —he carried under his arm a package wrapped ...
In the September 2025 issue of Harper’s Magazine, a selection from Jeff Kisseloff’s book Rewriting Hisstory: A Fifty-Year Journey to Uncover the Truth About Alger Hiss, which was published in April by ...