May 2020
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Browncast Episode 98: Covid-19 India status update, May 5th
In Browncast Episode 98, Razib talks to Kushal Mehra, the Carvaka, about what is happening in India during the COVID-19 pandemic, in an update episode dated 5 May 2020, with…
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Capsule Review: Napoleon, a Life; by Andrew Roberts
Omar Ali gives a five-star capsule review of Andrew Roberts’s Napoleon: A Life, finding the hero-worship irritating but the research thorough and readable, and the best new fact being how…
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The Persian captivity
Razib Khan urges readers to study histories beyond the subcontinent, arguing that pastoralist depredations were not unique to India, that Turkic dynasties dominated the Muslim world for a thousand years,…
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They came, they conquered, & they were swallowed
Responding to a reader’s piece on an invasive Aryan migration, Razib Khan agrees on the likely violence and sex-biased conquest but argues the conquered were the ruins of Indus societies,…
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Sikh Society: forged in the frontier
Using Mackinder’s Geographical Pivot of History thesis, which he calls imperialist and reductionist yet useful, the author begins an argument that Sikh society was forged on the Punjab frontier, as…
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Open Thread, 05/02/2020 Brown Pundits
Open thread of 2 May 2020, with a note that the host has gradually loosened moderation, especially on his own posts.
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Brahmins were made in India, not the steppe
Razib Khan reads Narasimhan et al.’s Y-chromosome data to argue that Brahmin lineages, from UP, Punjab and elsewhere, mix steppe R1a with many local lineages, so Brahmins were formed in…
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Review: Trevor Noah, Born a Crime
Omar Ali reviews Trevor Noah’s memoir Born a Crime, expecting a standard memoir but finding something far richer: an account of poverty, his strong mother, daily life in Black South…
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Browncast Episode 97: Extraction!
In Browncast Episode 97, Razib talks to his friend Sagar about the Netflix film Extraction with Chris Hemsworth, in a short, casual episode that also touches on how coronavirus is…
