July 2020
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Caste – bred to the bone!
Razib Khan follows a podcast on caste, arguing from genetics that jati is a strong reality, with endogamy across southern Asia for 1,500 years, and contrasting China’s civilisational continuity, where…
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Browncast Episode 115: Sean P. McCarthy, Come the Revolution!
A BrownCast episode in which Razib talks to Sean P. McCarthy of the economic or ‘Dirtbag’ Left, who mocks the woke Left online but holds serious views challenging what he…
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Browncast Episode 114: Brahmin Bannon
A BrownCast episode with Indian Bronson, an online commentator and data scientist whom the host describes as ideologically close to Steve Bannon, covering his views, his work as a data…
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Browncast Episode 113: Richard Hanania
A BrownCast episode in which Razib talks to Richard Hanania about American foreign policy, the ‘blob’, path dependency in US commitments and the effect of sanctions on Iran, plus his…
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Book Review: The Quetta Experience: A Study of Attitudes and Values Within the Pakistan Army by David O Smith
Hamid Hussain reviews David Smith’s The Quetta Experience, praising its study of the Pakistan Army’s Staff College based on American officers’ accounts from 1977 to 2014, and agreeing that fear…
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Book Review: Dominion, by Tom Holland
Omar Ali reviews Tom Holland’s Dominion as well written and researched but ultimately Christian apologetics from a liberal angle, challenging its thesis that humanist values such as equality, care for…
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Browncast Episode 112: Tarun Sridharan from Odd Compass – Rajas and Sultans
A BrownCast episode in which Razib and Akshar talk history with Tarun Sridharan of the Odd Compass YouTube channel, covering the Malacca Sultanate, Vijayanagara’s downfall and Maratha success, and recommending…
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Food between cultures
Razib Khan, reacting to an essay on reclaiming Indian food from the white gaze, agrees that white cooks of ‘exotic’ food are rewarded more than immigrants, but rejects the idea…
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Open Thread – 07/25/2020 – Brown Pundits
Open thread of 25 July 2020. The opening note recommends How Asia Works, now discounted on Kindle, warns commenters that stupid comments may be deleted, and says more podcasts are…
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Browncast Episode 111: Rob Henderson, from redneck to turtleneck
A BrownCast episode in which the host talks to Rob Henderson, a Cambridge psychology PhD student and Yale graduate who grew up in foster care and served in the US…
