Dearest Reader, I owe you my apol­ogies, for I am about to steal a small piece of your naivety. While you anx­iously wait for spring, glorying in vi­sions of lollipops, sunshine and flying bits...

I spent last semester in the tiny, fro­zen nation of Estonia–an experience which drastically shifted my under­standing of nationhood. During this time, I found that we as Americans have a misconstrued...