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Browncast Episode 78: Omar Al Nidawi
BrownCast episode 78 with Omar Al Nidawi, an Iraqi American who promotes development and democracy in Iraq, on the current crisis there and its likely future, plus how he became…
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Years of Rice and Lentils
Prompted by Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Years of Rice and Salt, the author poses a thought experiment: what if the Rajputs had halted Turco-Muslim expansion beyond Sindh and parts of…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Open thread for general discussion, asking readers to keep other posts on topic, with links to the podcast, Twitter, RSS feed and Patreon.
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Bong-outlier!
The author uses his own genetic data to note that both his parents are outliers among Dhaka Bangladeshis, more East Asian than usual, with his father steppe-shifted, and that two…
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Sometimes we don’t need to talk about it
A fragment, cut off, about the millennial media genre of ‘We Need to Talk About’ think-pieces, which the author says are often navel-gazing.
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Race and religion trump class
Focusing on victims of ‘Asian’ grooming gang scandals, the author argues they were treated as vulnerable and expendable because of class, and that police would have acted faster had the…
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Being different is not bad
Reviewing Rajiv Malhotra’s Being Different, the author finds it coherent and well scholarly, comparable to Tariq Ramadan on Islam, but faults it for treating American Protestant culture as ‘Judeo-Christian’ and…
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Browncast Episode 77: Professor Wilfred Reilly on hate crime hoaxes, racism, wokeness and more
BrownCast episode 77 with Wilfred Reilly, a political science professor at a historically Black college in Kentucky, on hate crime hoaxes, racism, wokeness and related questions in American life, from…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,920 comments
