From the Editor

Moscow News

First Alice, now Oscar. national review’s recent visit to the Soviet Union jogged my memory of Oscar Wilde’s short story The Happy Hypocrite, which recounts how a wicked and ugly man dons a mask of smiling virtue to woo a good and beautiful woman. Won over by her virtue, he confesses his deception and removes the mask—to reveal a countenance of shining goodness. The mask has become the man.