August 2019
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Invisibility, Jeff Sharlet’s The Family, and the goddess Kubjikaa
The author traces one principle of influence across Doug Coe’s account of The Family, a Defense One article on surveillance and Mark Dyczkowski’s work on the goddess Kubjika, as an…
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South Asian PCA
From his own data analysis, the author finds that Bengalis sit on the Khasi and Tibeto-Burman cline rather than the Munda cline, with Bangladeshis appearing as the inverse of the…
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How Islam’s greatness redounds to Indian religion
The author argues that the more transformative Islam appears in the genetic and cultural record, the more remarkable it is that India was still about 75 per cent non-Muslim on…
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Living in a post-biracial America
Prompted by a long article on Asian Americans and affirmative action, the author notes that many South Asians are dark-skinned and so more liminal to African American identity than East…
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Climate change: impact on the Hajj
Citing an MIT study that projects Hajj heat stress exceeding ‘extreme danger’ levels, the author asks how climate scientists and Islamic scholars will reconcile a divine command with a warming…
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Book Review: The 1965 War by Shaukat Riza
Major Agha H Amin reviews Major General Shaukat Riza’s officially sponsored 1984 history of the 1965 war, judging it sanitised and uncritical but valuable for its orders of battle and…
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Obituary: Brigadier Nisar Ahmed SJ
Hamid Hussain’s obituary of Brigadier Nisar Ahmad Khan (1920 to 2019), a Patiala-born officer who opted for Pakistan in 1947 and was central to an armoured holding action in the…
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Toward a beige future
Responding to a Washington Post piece that linked J.D. Vance’s pronatalism to white nationalism, the author notes Vance’s interracial family and argues that liberals lack the cultural competence to read…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Open Thread, 25 August 2019: a general thread for any topic.
