SOURCE: Lejeune, Anthony. “No Regrets.” National Review 25, no. 51 (21 December 1973): 1418-19.

In the following review of Chronicles of Wasted Time, Volume I: The Green Stick, Lejeune praises Muggeridge for skillfully showing the failings of the persons and institutions he studied during his long career in journalism and for pointing to faith as the sole answer to life's disappointments.

Some years ago, seeking to prove the obvious, I listed all the participants in a season of television talk-shows, dividing them into left wingers, right wingers, and nonpolitical. The overwhelming majority, of course, were left wingers. But one name didn't fit into any category—Malcolm Muggeridge. He is that rarest of things, a man who speaks and writes with an absolutely individual voice. During the past few years he has mellowed and ripened (though without losing any of his sharpness), and become a sort of Christian guru, exasperating or admirable according...