In the 90s, my father bumped into then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright at a retail store in Washington, DC. Unfortunately, he never worked up the courage to say hey and scurried away from her and...

Bright colors and neat designs, tied together with meaningful symbolism — flags are great. But what makes for a great flag? Recognizability. A flag is, above all else, a symbol, and that makes this...