Editing Whittaker Chambers (section)

===''National Review''===
[[File:Bozell&Buckley,1954.jpg|thumb|right: [[William F. Buckley Jr.]], left: [[L. Brent Bozell Jr.]] Buckley in 1954 first asked Chambers to endorse their book on [[Joseph McCarthy]].]]

In 1955, [[William F. Buckley Jr.]] started the magazine ''[[National Review]]'', and Chambers worked there as senior editor, publishing articles there for a little over a year and a half (October 1957 – June 1959).<ref name=Britannica/><ref>{{cite web
| title = National Review
| publisher = WhittakerChambers.org
| url = http://whittakerchambers.org/articles/nr/
| access-date = June 21, 2013
| archive-date = June 30, 2013
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130630215155/http://whittakerchambers.org/articles/nr/
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}}</ref> The most widely cited article to date<ref>{{cite news
| first = Jennifer
| last = Burns
| title = Atlas Spurned
| newspaper = The New York Times
| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/15/opinion/ayn-rand-wouldnt-approve-of-paul-ryan.html
| date = August 14, 2012
| access-date = June 21, 2013
| archive-date = January 19, 2023
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}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
| first = Michael
| last = Berliner
| title = Whittaker Chambers's Review of Ayn Rand's Novel "Atlas Shrugged" in The National Review
| magazine = Capitalism Magazine
| url = http://capitalismmagazine.com/2007/11/whittaker-chamberss-review-of-ayn-rands-novel-atlas-shrugged-in-the-national-review/
| date = November 26, 2007
| access-date = June 21, 2013
| archive-date = June 24, 2013
| archive-url = https://archive.today/20130624210228/http://capitalismmagazine.com/2007/11/whittaker-chamberss-review-of-ayn-rands-novel-atlas-shrugged-in-the-national-review/
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| first = Hiawatha
| last = Bray
| title = BioShock lets users take on fanaticism through fantasy
| newspaper = [[The Boston Globe]]
| url = http://www.boston.com/ae/games/articles/2007/08/27/bioshock_lets_users_take_on_fanaticism_through_fantasy/
| date = August 27, 2007
| access-date = June 21, 2013
| archive-date = October 14, 2007
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071014004508/http://www.boston.com/ae/games/articles/2007/08/27/bioshock_lets_users_take_on_fanaticism_through_fantasy/
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| title = William F. Buckley Jr., living at full sail: Conservative writer, editor looks back on remarkable career
| newspaper = The Washington Post
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| date = August 8, 2004
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}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine
| first = Terry
| last = Teachout
| title = The Passion of Ayn Rand, by Barbara Branden [Review]
| magazine = [[Commentary (magazine)|Commentary]]
| url = http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/the-passion-of-ayn-rand-by-barbara-branden/
| date = July 1986
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}}</ref> is a scathing review, "Big Sister is Watching You", of [[Ayn Rand]]'s ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]''.<ref>{{cite web
| title = Big Sister is Watching You
| publisher = WhittakerChambers.org
| url = http://whittakerchambers.org/articles/nr/bigsister/
| access-date = June 21, 2013
| archive-date = June 30, 2013
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130630115356/http://whittakerchambers.org/articles/nr/bigsister/
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}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal
 | last =Chambers
 | first =Whittaker
 | title =Big Sister Is Watching You
 | journal =[[National Review]]
 | date =December 28, 1957
 | url =https://www.nationalreview.com/2007/10/big-sister-watching-you-whittaker-chambers-2/
 | access-date =August 24, 2022
 | archive-date =January 19, 2023
 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20230119185930/https://www.nationalreview.com/2007/10/big-sister-watching-you-whittaker-chambers-2/
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 }}</ref>

In 1959, Chambers resigned from ''National Review'', although he continued correspondence with Buckley despite having suffered a series of heart attacks. In one letter, he noted, "I am a man of the Right because I mean to uphold capitalism in its American version. But I claim that capitalism is not, and by its essential nature cannot conceivably be, conservative."<ref>{{cite web | url=https://isi.org/intercollegiate-review/a-witness-to-himselfbrwilliam-f-buckley-jr-odyssey-of-a-friend-whittaker-chambers-letters-to-william-f-buckley-jr-1954-1961-i/ | title=A Witness to Himself&#91;br&#93;William F. Buckley, Jr., Odyssey of a Friend: Whittaker Chambers' Letters to William F. Buckley, Jr. 1954-1961&#91;/I&#93; | date=October 8, 2014 }}</ref>

In that same year, Chambers and his wife embarked on a visit to Europe, the highlight of which was a meeting with [[Arthur Koestler]] and [[Margarete Buber-Neumann]] at Koestler's home in Austria.<ref name=odyssey /> That fall, he recommenced studies at Western Maryland College (now [[McDaniel College]]) in Westminster, Maryland.<ref>{{cite book
| first = Whittaker
| last = Chambers
| title = Cold Friday
| publisher = Random House
| place = New York
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=UCsaAAAAYAAJ
| year = 1964
| page = xii| isbn = 9780394419695
}}</ref>