There are all kinds of ignorance in the world. Education, learning to read and write, doesn’t necessarily give us knowledge. We have to learn to use our minds to see what is really happening.

The average Bhutanese knows much more about the world than the average American…(for Americans)It is more comfortable to watch fake news about celebrities than to know what’s happening in China or southern Sudan. But events...

Bhutan does seem a bit unreal at times. Hardly anybody in the U.S. knows where it is. I have friends who still think the entire country is a figment of my imagination. When I was...