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===''The Nation''===

===''The Nation''===

The lone holdout has been ''[http://www.thenation.com/ The Nation]'', a magazine that "identified itself as solidly pro-Hiss in the 1950s."<ref>G. Edward White, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=FvR4HBTiYzAC Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars: The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy]'' (Oxford University Press, 2005) ISBN 0195182553, p. 133.</ref> The late [http://www.ericbreindel.org/about_eric.html Eric Breindel] tagged it "America's leading forum for Alger Hiss apologia";<ref>Eric Breindel, "Goodies from the Venona files: Hiss’ Guilt," ''The New Republic'', April 15, 1996, reprinted in the [http://fdsys.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-1996-04-18/html/CREC-1996-04-18-pt1-PgH3640.htm Congressional Record, Vol. 142, No. 50 (Thursday, April 18, 1996)], p. H3645</ref> [[William F. Buckley]] commented in 1978 that the magazine "has been clinging to the notion of Hiss's innocence over the years with the forlorn adamance of the last survivors of [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19780518&id=s88VAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9xEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2592,3623339 the Flat Earth Society]." ''The Nation'' "embraced a [http://gladlylernegladlyteche.blogspot.com/2009/06/of-columns-communists-and-comoes.html prejudiced view] of the Hiss-Chambers affair in 1948," writes [http://english.princeton.edu/component/option,com_faculty/Itemid,99999999/facultyid,11/func,fullview/lang,en/ Princeton Emeritus Professor] John V. Fleming, "and has been unable to wriggle free even yet."<ref>The magazine's defense of Hiss has tended to ignore the facts and focus on questions of "taste" ("If one has any interest in [http://spectator.org/archives/2008/04/22/the-alger-hiss-democrats our national taste] it is impossible to refrain from asking how American jurors could be persuaded to give credence to such a man as Chambers in preference to such a man as Hiss").</ref> Today, according to Slate.com, it is "pretty much the last general-interest magazine in America that [http://www.slate.com/id/1007346/pagenum/all/ remains committed] to the idea of Hiss's innocence." Nowadays, outside "the ranks of [http://hnn.us/articles/816.html ''Nation'' readers] and a dwindling coterie of academic leftists, there are few people still willing to claim that Alger Hiss and Harry Dexter White were not Soviet agents," writes Klehr. Radosh agrees, "Except for a dwindling group—mostly [http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-4052302/To-the-bitter-end-Alger.html ''Nation'' magazine readers] and editors …. the consensus has solidified: Hiss was undoubtedly a Soviet spy."

The lone holdout has been ''[http://www.thenation.com/ The Nation]'', a magazine that "identified itself as solidly pro-Hiss in the 1950s."<ref>G. Edward White, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=FvR4HBTiYzAC Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars: The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy]'' (Oxford University Press, 2005) ISBN 0195182553, p. 133.</ref> The late [http://www.ericbreindel.org/about_eric.html Eric Breindel] tagged it "America's leading forum for Alger Hiss apologia";<ref>Eric Breindel, "Goodies from the Venona files: Hiss’ Guilt," ''The New Republic'', April 15, 1996, reprinted in the [http://fdsys.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-1996-04-18/html/CREC-1996-04-18-pt1-PgH3640.htm Congressional Record, Vol. 142, No. 50 (Thursday, April 18, 1996)], p. H3645</ref> [[William F. Buckley]] commented in 1978 that the magazine "has been clinging to the notion of Hiss's innocence over the years with the forlorn adamance of the last survivors of [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19780518&id=s88VAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9xEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2592,3623339 the Flat Earth Society]." ''The Nation'' "embraced a [http://gladlylernegladlyteche.blogspot.com/2009/06/of-columns-communists-and-comoes.html prejudiced view] of the Hiss-Chambers affair in 1948," writes [http://english.princeton.edu/component/option,com_faculty/Itemid,99999999/facultyid,11/func,fullview/lang,en/ Princeton Emeritus Professor] John V. Fleming, "and has been unable to wriggle free even yet."<ref>The magazine's defense of Hiss has tended to ignore the facts and focus on questions of "taste" ("If one has any interest in [http://spectator.org/archives/2008/04/22/the-alger-hiss-democrats our national taste] it is impossible to refrain from asking how American jurors could be persuaded to give credence to such a man as Chambers in preference to such a man as Hiss").</ref> Today, according to Slate.com, it is "pretty much the last general-interest magazine in America that [http://web.archive.org/web/20110220084832/http://www.slate.com/id/1007346/pagenum/all/ remains committed] to the idea of Hiss's innocence." Nowadays, outside "the ranks of [http://hnn.us/articles/816.html ''Nation'' readers] and a dwindling coterie of academic leftists, there are few people still willing to claim that Alger Hiss and Harry Dexter White were not Soviet agents," writes Klehr. Radosh agrees, "Except for a dwindling group—mostly [http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-4052302/To-the-bitter-end-Alger.html ''Nation'' magazine readers] and editors …. the consensus has solidified: Hiss was undoubtedly a Soviet spy."

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====George Soros/The Nation Institute====