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Memory outlives flesh
Answering why Indo-Aryans dominate debate despite contributing perhaps 10 to 30 per cent of northern South Asian ancestry, the author argues through St Perpetua and Polish Catholics that language and…
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The first ancient DNA from R1a1a-Z93 6,000 years ago in Ukraine (with lactase persistence!)
Quoting a new David Anthony paper, the author highlights a 6,000-year-old Ukrainian sample with Y-haplogroup R1a-Z93 and early lactase persistence, notes the lineage’s links to South Asian Indo-Aryans, and expects…
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Episode 62: Leighton Woodhouse, the Left, identity, and 2020
A Brown Pundits podcast episode in conversation with Leighton Woodhouse of the Extremely Offline podcast, discussing the Left, identity politics and the future of American politics ahead of the 2020…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Open Thread, 4 August 2019, with a prompt from the author’s reading of Buddhism: A History, asking whether Advaita has more in common with classical Indian Buddhism than with East…
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Muslim-American personalities and political polarization – part 1
In the first part of a long post, the author discusses Muslims in American public life, comparing how Barack Obama and John F. Kennedy broke barriers for African Americans and…
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Episode 61: Lisa Mahapatra, another neoliberal shill
A Brown Pundits podcast conversation with Lisa Mahapatra, in which the host and guest discuss her self-description as a non-woke global human, her Oriya background and her experience as a…
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Comments
The blog’s author says he is taking a more front-and-centre role, that comment moderation will be stricter with some likely bans, and that he is considering a plugin capping comment…
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Mehdi Hasan’s hypocrisies
The author argues that Mehdi Hasan should not use guilt by association, as in his attack on Rand Paul over his father’s newsletters, given Hasan’s own past remarks about homosexuals…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,923 comments
