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====''The Nation'' on consensus====

====''The Nation'' on consensus====

Such quibbling aside, even at the ''Nation,'' it is now acknowledged that the consensus is that Hiss was guilty. [http://www.thenation.com/authors/athan-g-theoharis ''Nation'' contributor] Athan Theoharis writes that the "[http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8723(200006)87%3A1%3C292%3ATVFAWA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-5 conventional assessment]" is that Hiss was "an unreconstructed Soviet spy." Even Bird and Chervonnaya admit, "[http://www.theamericanscholar.org/the-mystery-of-ales-2/ Most historians] have conceded the argument to Weinstein."<ref>Chervonnaya has since suggested that this consensus amounts to an orthodoxy, writing of her "hope of dethroning the autocracy of cold war historical scholarship on the matter of Alger Hiss," describing her motive as "to [http://www.tnr.com/article/correspondence-11 overthrow the regime]."</ref> Speaking of the thesis that Hiss was guilty, Navasky himself conceded in 2007 that “for the last 10 years, that has been [http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/hiss_victor_navasky.pdf the consensus].”<ref>Victor Navasky, "[https://web.archive.org/web/20100604145017/http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/hiss_victor_navasky.pdf Alger Hiss and History]" (Center for the United States and the Cold War, New York University), April 5, 2007, p. 6 (Archive)</ref>

Such quibbling aside, even at the ''Nation,'' it is now acknowledged that the consensus is that Hiss was guilty. [http://www.thenation.com/authors/athan-g-theoharis ''Nation'' contributor] Athan Theoharis writes that the "[http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8723(200006)87%3A1%3C292%3ATVFAWA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-5 conventional assessment]" is that Hiss was "an unreconstructed Soviet spy." Even Bird and Chervonnaya admit, "[http://www.theamericanscholar.org/the-mystery-of-ales-2/ Most historians] have conceded the argument to Weinstein."<ref>Chervonnaya has since suggested that this consensus amounts to an orthodoxy, writing of her "hope of dethroning the autocracy of cold war historical scholarship on the matter of Alger Hiss," describing her motive as "to [http://www.tnr.com/article/correspondence-11 overthrow the regime]."</ref> Speaking of the thesis that Hiss was guilty, Navasky himself conceded in 2007 that “for the last 10 years, that has been [http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/hiss_victor_navasky.pdf the consensus].”<ref>Victor Navasky, "[https://web.archive.org/web/20080706152919/http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/hiss_victor_navasky.pdf Alger Hiss and History]" (Center for the United States and the Cold War, New York University), April 5, 2007, p. 6 (Archive)</ref>

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