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.
(Martin Storey, Australia, 12/02/20 3:43 am) The WAIS community has been talking a lot about Diego Maradona's death, leaving in the shade another man, who passed almost at the same time: former Prime Minister of the Sudan, Sadiq al-Mahdi. H ...
Read more(David A. Westbrook, USA, 12/01/20 6:03 am) I hope this finds you and yours well. Mark Maguire and David A. Westbrook, Getting Through Security: Counterterrorism, Bureaucracy and a Sense of the Modern is finally available as of t ...
Read more(A. J. Cave, USA, 12/01/20 4:27 am) As of 10:00 pm Monday night (California time), we are ordered to "stay at home." Gone is the Trumpian term "shelter-in-place." When I was writing my (yet another) piece on t ...
Read more(Cameron Sawyer, Russia, 12/01/20 3:53 am) In response to George Aucoin (November 30th), are we to suppose that William F. Buckley's esteemed conservative beacon, the National Review, is also a Democratic mole? Trump's D ...
Read more(David Duggan, USA, 12/01/20 3:41 am) My profound apologies to my WAISdom admiring public for not having commented on the death of Diego Maradona, whose "hand of God" goal against England in the 1986 World Cup will go down as on ...
Read more(John Eipper, USA, 11/30/20 8:17 am) Edward Mears writes from Tokyo: Several weeks ago I was scrolling through one of my Japan-related Twitter lists that I rely upon for all things Japanese news and polit ...
Read more(Francisco Ramirez, USA, 11/30/20 6:23 am) [JE: Francisco Ramírez forwarded this cartoon-tribute to Diego Maradona. For those in the dark, "Dieguito" has now returned the Hand of God to its rightful owner. ...
Read more(Enrique Torner, USA, 11/30/20 4:29 am) I want to thank José Ignacio Soler for bringing Maradona's death's news to WAIS. I have been away from home for Thanksgiving vacation and have not been following the news. ...
Read more(George Aucoin, France, 11/30/20 4:14 am) In response to John Eipper's interesting question of November 27th: Why would Governor Kemp [Georgia] and Secretary of State Raffensperger, both Republicans, want to engineer a Biden victory? ...
Read more(Cameron Sawyer, Russia, 11/30/20 3:24 am) Why in the world is Trump engaging in this obviously futile effort to overturn the results of the November presidential election? Is he simply crazy? Or is he some kind of masochist, who enjoys humi ...
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