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.
(Carmen Negrin, -France, 03/04/21 3:27 am) My thanks to Brian Blodgett (March 3rd). It is nice and rare today to be able to exchange views with a Republican. Normally politics should be about political content, not about their leader. That is ...
Read more(Leo Goldberger, USA, 03/03/21 1:51 pm) Thank God we have freedom of speech in our still wonderful democratic country--yet one cannot help but wonder about its rational limits! As we have suffered these past four years with the dramatic d ...
Read more(Brian Blodgett, USA, 03/03/21 11:00 am) I am constantly seeing claims that Trump has 74 million fanatic cult followers and, as a Republican, I can say that I am not in a cult, as far as I am concerned, but rather just opposed to some of the ...
Read more(George Aucoin, -France, 03/03/21 6:53 am) Of course Trump is not gone. Despite the regressive Democrat[ic] Party's attempt to exterminate him through a four-year Russian collusion campaign, a collaborative Fourth Estate invested enti ...
Read more(Edward Jajko, USA, 03/03/21 4:37 am) Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, in the staging by Francesca Zambello, will be presented FREE beginning the first weekend of March. Saturday-Sunday, March 6-7, will bring Das R ...
Read more(Tor Guimaraes, USA, 03/03/21 3:55 am) John Eipper commented on my post of March 1st: "Tor, what a terrifying choice! Civil war on the one hand, dictatorship on the other? How about a gradual return to the pre-2017 status quo? Tru ...
Read more(Henry Levin, USA, 03/03/21 3:40 am) I always like Tor Guimaraes's insights, but I was put off by one word in "America the Beautiful" and his affirmation that "all words in the song are still truthful." I must d ...
Read more(Angel Vinas, Belgium, 03/02/21 9:38 am) In response to Eugenio Battaglia's post of today I have two points to make: Firstly, when I comment on other countries' history I try to be sure of my command of the relevant historiogra ...
Read more(Eugenio Battaglia, Italy, 03/02/21 4:20 am) Maybe the planning for Spain's military uprising of July 1936 did not begin on 14 April 1931 but started when the people of that nation realized what was going to face with the Republic and the fo ...
Read more(John Eipper, USA, 03/02/21 3:23 am) Gary Moore writes: To Timothy Ashby's interesting travelogue on the "Austrian" sanctuary of Bariloche, Argentina, John E appended a rich aside that opens ...
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