October 2022
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Caste and California: the lawsuits are in!
Reacting to two Hindu professors suing the California State University system over adding caste to its anti-discrimination policy, Razib Khan calls the policy impractical and wrongheaded, arguing that there are…
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Rishi and the past
Razib Khan notes that Rishi Sunak will lead a nation whose economy sits just below India’s, welcomes the low-key reaction, and hopes Indian elites will fixate less on the British…
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Episode 15: The Vijayanagara Empire
In episode 15 of the history podcast, Shrikanth and Gaurav talk to Maneesh Taneja about the Vijayanagara Empire, which the post says outlasted the Mughal Empire and whose legacy survives…
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Genetic distances across the world
Razib Khan computes pairwise Fst between South Asian, European, East Asian and Iranian populations and runs TreeMix, posting two graphs and a spreadsheet of values without drawing a major conclusion.
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Open Thread – 10/14/2022 – Brown Pundits
Open thread for 14 October 2022, in which Razib Khan says he is uploading his backlog of podcasts to YouTube and notes that the blog, over ten years old, began…
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The Indian Overton: Saffron Secularism
The Emissary argues that Indian and international commentary misreads the BJP’s rule, pointing to economic growth, minority attitudes and Narendra Modi’s popularity, and sees the party as the dead centre…
