Posts on 12/04/22
A Welcome Back to Alice Whealey; Has Russia Fueled Divisiveness in the US?
(Istvan Simon, USA, 12/04/22 3:37 pm) I welcome Alice Whealey back to WAIS! She has not written for a while. It is a great personal joy for me to read a post of hers again. Starting with the personal, let me say that Alice and I a ...
Read moreHas the War Make Ukraine More--or Less--United?
(Cameron Sawyer, USA, 12/04/22 7:30 am) JE wrote, in response to a post by Alice Whealey about the Ukraine conflict: "Ukraine was far from a united country prior to Putin's invasion--although I would add that nothing unites a coun ...
Read moreLanguage and Nation, Revisited
(José Ignacio Soler, Venezuela, 12/04/22 4:53 am) A brief response to Cameron Sawyer's latest post, where he asks me if I support the extermination of the Catalan and Basque languages in Spain. That Cameron would ask such a question suggests ...
Read moreSpain May Still be Catholic, but the Church is No Longer Spanish
(Consoly Leon Arias, Spain / Canary, 12/04/22 4:05 am) The President of the Second Spanish Republic, Manuel Azaña, declared that Spain had ceased to be Catholic. Those assertions are recorded in the Diario de Sesiones de las Cortes o ...
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