The postwar Red Scare and McCarthyism solidified Anderson’s left-of-center politics. He solidified his position at Bell Labs by using the concept of superexchange to explain neutron scattering data from transition metal oxides. He disengaged from Shockley and studied magnetism under the tutelage of Charles Kittel, Conyers Herring, and Gregory Wannier. The Heisenberg model is used to explain ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism and Anderson’s discovery of spontaneous symmetry breaking in quantum antiferromagnets is described. He spends six months in Japan at the invitation of Ryogo Kubo, teaches magnetism, attends and, at an international conference, learns that he is a bone fide solid-state theoretician.