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.
(Ronald Hilton, USA, 03/19/98 4:18 am) The image, fair or unfair, one people has of another plays an important role in national and international affairs. The vision of the Jews in Nazi Germany had terrible consequences. The Holoc ...
Read more(Ronald Hilton, USA, 03/18/98 9:58 am) The dedication of the new Whittier Law School in Orange County, World was a joyous occasion, with abundant self-congratulatory speeches. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy was the guest of honor ...
Read more(Ronald Hilton, USA, 03/18/98 7:50 am) Regarding the disgraceful plight of the Stanford Statuary Group, Bob Drewes suggests group action. Sounds like an excellent idea, and the Stanford Historical Society would be the logical group ...
Read more(Ronald Hilton, USA, 03/16/98 6:51 pm) Nobel Prizes are a mixed blessing. Scientists often get credit for work done by their teams. One such laureate in a conversation with me dismissed scornfully the Nobel Prizes in literature, sayi ...
Read more(Ronald Hilton, USA, 03/16/98 6:51 pm) The use of language issues for political purposes is a global problem. In a memo on France, we discussed the use by politicians of women's demand for gender-recognition in tit ...
Read more(Ronald Hilton, USA, 03/16/98 3:37 pm) In ...
Read more(Ronald Hilton, USA, 03/16/98 3:36 pm) Our TV programs of hour-long interviews with specialists in international affairs is going well, and the archive of tapes, an important doumentary source, is growing. Gary Becker and his wife ...
Read more(Ronald Hilton, USA, 03/16/98 3:03 am) WAIS Fellow General Robert Gard chose landmines as his topic; he is the adviser to the foundation which supports the movement which won the Nobel Peace Prize. Our memo on this bought this im ...
Read more(Ronald Hilton, USA, 03/16/98 2:26 am) The millennium fever takes several forms. One is the belief that computers, unable to compete with the number 2000, will break down, and with them our civilization. Paul Cordes, nephew of Keith Cor ...
Read more(Ronald Hilton, USA, 03/16/98 2:25 am) Thank God the Saturnalia are over. The Christmas tree IA a pagan symbol, but in this country it is wrongly viewed as a Christian one. Hence the fight over symbols. Big menorahs placed nearby have be ...
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