March 2020
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Browncast Episode 83: An evolutionary anthropologist on the GRE, Bo Winegard and the nature of his discipline
BrownCast episode 83 with evolutionary anthropologist Cody Moser, who is against the GRE and sad about the firing of Bo Winegard, and who is vaguer about what his own discipline…
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Open Thread
Open thread, 7 March 2020, for random thoughts and Indo-Pak flamewars.
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A North Indian in Uzbekistan at 1550 B.C.
Rereading Narasimhan et al.’s supplement, Razib Khan notes an outlier at a Bronze Age Uzbekistan site dated around 1600 BC carrying Indus-related and steppe admixture, earlier than the Swat Valley…
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Browncast Episode 82: Francois Gautier; pro-Hindu French Journalist
BrownCast episode 82 with Francois Gautier, a French journalist and long-time supporter of ‘the Hindu cause’ (or, as opponents might say, ‘the extremist Hindu cause’), asked how he came to…
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Browncast episode 81: An Israeli in the world
BrownCast episode 81, in which Razib talks to his old friend David Boxenhorn, an American Jew who moved to Israel, about diversity and discrimination in Israeli society, anti-Zionism versus anti-Semitism,…
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The white acting mother of a white presenting daughter
Reacting to an essay by a Pakistani American mother whose daughter passes as white, the author discusses her possible Syed background, argues such pieces serve a demand among affluent white…
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Western civilization is Indo-Islamic under its skin
Recalling how Indian and Muslim sensitivity to criticism of religion once seemed absurd, the author argues American culture is now drifting toward the same identitarian honour culture, adding that this…
