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As Japan’s nuclear crisis continues to unfold, many are considering the lessons from Three Mile Island, America’s worst nuclear accident. The Washington Post recently interviewed J. Samuel Walker, a Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) historian and author of Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective, on the similarities between the two disasters. In Three Mile [more...]  In this video for WineRadio, Terry Theise tackles the question, Why we should be drinking Riesling?
Theise, a James Beard Award winner, legendary wine importer, and author of Reading Between the Wines, argues that Riesling is the greatest grape from which wine is made, period. He also debates the merits of Grower Champagnes vs. [more...] Author Kirk Savage was in Washington, D.C. on June 10, when, it is alleged, a gunman entered the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and fired shots, killing a security guard. Savage, who had planned to visit the museum with his family on that day, responded to the tragedy with an op-ed article in Sunday’s Washington [more...] On Sunday, June 29, 2008, The Washington Post posted an article by William J. Dobson called Lessons Learned. The subject of the article talks about how the leaders of China’s Communist Party can learn from the mistakes of the former Soviet Union. Dobson based his opinion on David Shambaugh’s ideas from his book entitled, China’s [more...] Occasionally, UC Press has the opportunity to bring you brief articles written by our authors. The following is by prolific author, Lawrence Kramer, whose newest book is Why Classical Music Still Matters: “Whenever classical music makes news these days the news is likely to be bad. So it was with a recent Washington Post article by [more...] |
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