Berkley Center

Japanese society consists of a wide and diverse range of values and spiritual beliefs. Yet in a nation that so often presents a homogenous culture and history to the outer world, the phenomenal clash of beliefs between Zen Buddhism and Japanese…

I nervously check my phone for the thousandth time, sigh, and try not to lose my temper: I’m stuck behind that classic Spanish couple. They come in all ages and all shapes and sizes, but they all share one thing: an inability to share the sidewalk…

It was not my first time in St. Petersburg’s Ploschad Vosstanya metro station. I had stood under its garnished ceiling and stood on its huge escalators at least 50 times before. Russian metro stations are to D.C. metro stations as a Picasso…