Greetings and welcome to this 36th episode of the Carnival of Fools! This may be the last one we stage in this dusty old theater, as mysterious foreign donors have just offered to upgrade the Carnival ...

The winner, WFB announced with unfeigned delight, was Sam Tanenhaus and he had won the sweepstakes for two reasons: First, he had written a book about Whittaker Chambers that WFB had admired. And ...