May 2020
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Browncast Episode 103: Abhijit Iyer-Mitra on Indian Defense, Economics, and History
In Browncast Episode 103, Omar, Mukunda and Akshar talk to defence analyst Abhijit Iyer-Mitra about his shift from communist affinity to Indian nationalism, his views on Modi, India’s inefficiencies and…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Open thread of 30 May 2020: talk about whatever, including Pakistan, Islam and haplogroup H, with notes on podcast reviews, record site traffic and a reminder that the host will…
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Pass the samosa, spare the postcolonialism
Razib Khan argues that Edward Said’s Orientalism at least made an intelligible argument, whereas mass-level postcolonialism is inchoate and its academic form unintelligible, using a Juggernaut piece on cultural appropriation…
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{{{Brown Pundits}}} 2020 survey results
Preliminary results of the 2020 reader survey from 260 responses: 95 per cent male, 55 per cent South Asian and 35 per cent white, mostly in the USA, mixed on…
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Browncast episode 102: Italy after Covid-19’s peak
In Browncast Episode 102, Razib speaks again to an Italian in Verona, two months after the pandemic’s Italian peak, about what everyday life in northern Italy is like after the…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Do your thing.
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Brown Pundits Reader Survey #3
Link to the third Brown Pundits reader survey, with results available in a shared spreadsheet.
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The Era of the Kushans
The author argues, from a range of evidence including R. C. Majumdar’s earlier doubts, that the Kanishka Era began around 233 CE rather than the currently accepted 127 CE, challenging…
