“A man is not primarily a witness against something,” Whittaker Chambers wrote. “That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.”

Christmas is the time to recall these words, especially for a columnist who flatters himself an occasional muckraker, and who dwells on corruption and hypocrisy.

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