In a rare interview, Mao Tse-Tung conversed on topics ranging over what he himself called shan nan hai pei, or “from south of the mountains to north of the seas.”

One thing is clear about Vice President Richard Nixon: both those who admire him and those who dislike him agree that he represents something “new” in American life.

Concerns about who among us is and is not “a Communist” tend to rest on the assumption that all Russians are our enemies. But in the realm of the spirit, there is a moral life being led under the noses of the Soviet regime—and despite anything the regime may do to stop it.