Venezuela`s crisis could be a case study for a social science graduate course in any respectable university. Nevertheless, for years on WAIS I have been trying to explain Venezuela`s hows and whys, as much as the whats. To explain what is happening is easier, mostly because it is based on measurable facts, observations and anecdotes. It is obviously harder to dig into the causes and development of things.
I hope, as a grateful and loving pupil, to be the first to deliver this great news to WAIS: Professor Paul Preston has been knighted in the 2018 Queen`s Birthday Honours:
I have been fascinated by the recent postings by various WAIS colleagues about genealogy. For me, research into one´s family background is a means of feeling a personal connection with history--enabling me to relate to historical events that my own flesh and blood participated in. Imaginatively stepping into an ancestor´s shoes (or armour, as you will read below).
The Dean of WAISers, David W. Pike, has published five new books on WAISworld. Not only are the e-books free and universally available, but they are also the first titles since the Prof. Hilton days to carry the WAIS imprimatur.
(Tor Guimaraes, USA, 10/18/19 3:08 am) Obviously the US government disagrees with José Ignacio Soler's claim that the US sanctions have had relatively little effect on the Venezuelan crisis (October 10). Otherwise, why would th ...
Read more(Eugenio Battaglia, Italy, 10/17/19 8:12 am) Speaking of the anti-Vietnam war protests at Stanford and elsewhere, I assume that probably some US WAISers participated in these protests in the late 1960s and early '70s. By now I wonder i ...
Read more(Jose Manuel de Prada, Spain, 10/17/19 6:01 am) According to Jordi Molins and his statistics, Catalan pro-independence nationalists are 100% jolly good, refugee-welcoming, well-educated and ideologically pure fellows, while non pro-independenc ...
Read more(Jordi Molins, Spain, 10/17/19 5:49 am) John Eipper asked me: "Do you know, or know of, any Republicans (Independentists) who are monolingual in Castilian only?" Yes, there are many of them. The following description would ...
Read more(Bàrbara Molas, Canada, 10/17/19 4:50 am) To address John Eipper's question on Spanish-speaking separatists in Catalonia: I believe it is worth highlighting the existence since 2013 of a political platform of Spanish-speaking Catala ...
Read more(Timothy Brown, USA, 10/17/19 4:15 am) I'm curious. It's my understanding that Spain did not become a full-fledged union until the 15th century, when it became a union of different principalities. Several of them had then, and stil ...
Read more(Harry Papasotiriou, Greece, 10/17/19 3:49 am) John E asked whether I would still describe Greece as the most anti-American nation in Europe, as I had claimed in a 2004 New Yorker piece by George Packer. In fact, Germany replaced ...
Read more(Jose Manuel de Prada, Spain, 10/16/19 10:07 am) This past night has been one of violence, anxiety and fear in Barcelona and other major Catalan towns, courtesy of hooligans encouraged by the puppet president of the Generalitat Joaquim Torra, who th ...
Read more(Jordi Molins, Spain, 10/16/19 9:47 am) As a reply to José Manuel de Prada's comments on ethnic purity in Catalonia, I wrote on WAIS two years ago: "In relation to ethnic purity: the two Republican political parties ha ...
Read more(Henry Levin, USA, 10/16/19 3:38 am) I knew Herb Packer, the father of George. Packer was a distinguished law professor who died at only 47 years of age after three severe strokes. He had a history of depression, and the death was an ap ...
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