Elizabeth Lambert is Emerita Professor of English, Gettysburg College. She has published reviews and articles on various aspects of Burke’s life and thought, his religion, his friendship with Samuel Johnson, and the ways James Boswell’s portrayal of Burke in the Life of Johnson was influenced by their personal relationship. Her book, Edmund Burke of Beaconsfield, was published by the University of Delaware Press in 2003.
The book’s defense of McCarthyism also fares even better over half a century after its publication, as the opening of the Soviet archives gave Americans far more information than the authors had in 1954 and made abundantly clear not only the reality of Soviet infiltration of the…
Today, we know so much more about the communist infiltration of our government and society in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s than William F. Buckley, Jr. did in his early career. Yet, it turns out that Buckley and his allies were closer to the truth about domestic communism than their…