Pretty much no one in the West thought the Berlin Wall was all that cool. (And a lot of folks in the East tended to agree.) But man, if ever there were a symbol for the division between the democra...

The ancient Greeks had a lot of cool words—agora, gaia, makros—and one of the best is "kairos." Kairos refers to the opportune moment: basically, the stars have aligned and if action is going t...

International travel pro-tip: try to learn at least a few phrases in Finnish/Japanese/Turkish before you take that vacation to Helsinki/Tokyo/Istanbul. It shows you care about the culture of the pl...

Just like speaking the native language, conveying a basic knowledge of your locale's points of interest is just good politics. But even more than that, Reagan specifically mentions these landmarks...