March 2019
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BrownCast Podcast episode 21: A conversation with Thomas Chatterton Williams, a cosmopolitan in Paris
The hosts talk to Thomas Chatterton Williams, a Paris-based writer and author of Losing My Cool, about being a writer, cosmopolitanism, race and identity, the nation-state, and the prospects for…
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The Fog of War Increases the Risk of Miscalculation
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BrownCast Podcast episode 20: Conversation with a middle-class Dalit
The host talks to a university-educated, middle-class Dalit in Gujarat, who describes everyday slights rather than daily oppression in urban India. The host notes this seems far from Jim Crow,…
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Does the nuclear arsenal “protect” Pakistan?
Zach poses questions rather than opinions: what India would have done had Pakistan not been nuclear, how strong India’s conventional forces are, whether China would intervene, and whether other states…
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The Syeds of South Asia are the sons of Hindus and Magians
The author reviews a 2010 Y-chromosome paper on self-identified Syeds and says its data show Arab affinity, but argues he reads them differently, noting how many Syeds carry South Asian…
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Globalist edgelord fighting for her life at the center
A quoted tweet from a neoliberal account urging voters in a tongue-in-cheek bracket contest to back a London PhD student, with a line about voting on the question of Modi.
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Review: Persian Fire
A review of Tom Holland’s Persian Fire, a history of the Greco-Persian wars. The reviewer finds it a fun read that covers both sides well, takes a star off for…
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Trevor Noah disses India?
Zach comments on Trevor Noah’s joke on the India-Pakistan standoff, agreeing with Omar’s analysis but not his conclusion. He argues the joke elevated Pakistan, a bankrupt state, to equal footing…
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BrownCast Podcast episode 19: Conversation with Saloni – a globalist centrist edgelord
The host talks to Saloni, a behavioural genetics graduate student at King’s College London who grew up in Hong Kong, about globalisation, globalism and being Steven Pinker’s bulldog. The post…
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India and Pakistan; the Fog of War
An account of the 14 February 2019 Pulwama suicide bombing, claimed by the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed, and the escalation that followed. It sets out Masood Azhar’s history and the background to…
