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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Open thread of 6 June 2020: talk about what you want, including Pakistan, Islam or American riots, and a new semi-regular podcast on American politics from Left and Right.
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The Shadow Sultanate: Qatar
The author argues that Qatar, a tiny gas-rich state, may be the world’s most influential country per square mile, using Al Jazeera, founded and funded by its ruling House of…
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Browncast Episode 105: Mongolian Nazis, Antifascists, and the American Scene
In Browncast Episode 105, Razib talks to Tasmania-based writer Richard Alexander about the American protests and riots, Antifascism and, as the title promises, Mongolian Nazis, offering a view of the…
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Browncast Episode 104: The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia
In Browncast Episode 104, the hosts discuss the Tibetan Empire’s reach into Central Asia and Tibetan Buddhism, in a short episode whose show notes give no further detail about the…
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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…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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