How to Make Friends with Strangers Travel is one long introduction to the broadest of humanity. We aren’t perfect, but most members of our species are worth knowing. To meet those neighbors, follow these simple rules. If I was crammed on a bus for 12 hours with Hitler, I could probably make friends with him. I’m [Continue Reading]
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The Day Fidel Died
Cuba in the Age of Raúl, Obama, and the Rolling Stones In The Day Fidel Died, intrepid travel writer Patrick Symmes interweaves reporting from years spent traveling to the Cuban Island, a narrative history of the rise of Fidelismo and the last sixty-plus years of life there under Fidel Castro. As the nearest Communist state [Continue Reading]
