Another BP Podcast is up. You can listen on Libsyn, iTunes, Spotify, and Stitcher. Probably the easiest way to keep up the podcast since we don’t have a regular schedule is to subscribe at one of the links above.
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Today I talk to Christoph, the erstwhile “Eurasian Sensation.” Long-time readers of this weblog will know that Christoph was an early contributor to this weblog. Over the past few years, he has gained prominence on Twitter as a verbal pugilist of sorts, punching Right and punching Left from the de facto center.
We talk about his own mixed-race identity, and cosmopolitan lifestyle choices and orientation. Both of us also talk about the interesting fact that we are regularly lectured about Islam by non-Muslim progressives.
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Razib Khan
Razib Khan is a Bangladeshi-American geneticist and writer. He is co-founder of Brown Pundits and runs Unsupervised Learning, a Substack on population genetics, evolution, history, and politics with more than 55,000 subscribers, alongside the accompanying podcast. He has blogged at Gene Expression since the early 2000s.
His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Review, Slate, India Today, Quillette, and UnHerd. He is Director of Operations at FUTO in Austin, Texas, and co-founder of GenRAIT, a life-sciences platform company. Earlier in his career he developed ancestry algorithms for Gene by Gene, the Genographic Project, and Insitome, and was among the first employees at Embark Veterinary.
Born in Dhaka and raised in upstate New York and eastern Oregon, he holds degrees in biochemistry (2000) and biology (2006) from the University of Oregon, and undertook doctoral work in genomics and genetics at UC Davis. He lives in Austin.
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Was a decent podcast, but I felt it was rather banal. Probably because I generally share Christoph’s ideological inclination (center-left in the Anglo-American context, which makes me “right by default” in a world where the Left is growing increasingly doctrinaire.)
we probably agree too much. should have surya yalamanchili on in the next few weeks. will have more clash since he’s a democrat and a partisan one at that.
A podcast with Aatish taseer would be interesting. His father was the assassinated Governor in Pakistan, and his mother a Modi supporting journalist. A review of his latest book
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/09/books/review/aatish-taseer-twice-born.html
THE TWICE-BORN
Life and Death on the Ganges
I second that. I’ve been following his writing for years, he’s an incisive thinker with a knack for highly lucid prose. He’s based in New York city these days, would be a welcome addition to the podcast
I knew him from Pakistan but we haven’t been in touch for years. i’ll tweet him now.