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At their last meeting, as Chambers was preparing to flee the party, he begged Hiss to join him, but the supercool Hiss seemed to admire just what horrified Chambers in Soviet behavior--Stalin "played for keeps," as he put it--and his wife, Priscilla, termed Chambers' agonized apostasy "mental masturbation."
The cover story applauds John McCain's ideological apostasy.
The Weekly Standard 's John Podhoretz compares Horowitz's conversion to conservatism to Whittaker Chambers' magisterial tale of apostasy, Witness . Leftists dismiss the book as score-settling and name-calling.
(To read Slate's take on Pat's apostasy, click here.)
When I was deputy editor of the New Republic during a seven-month period of apostasy in 1994, there were no fact checkers; it was before the whole Ruth Shalit business, so the fact checking "department" that Jack describes did not exist.