October 2024
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US Elections 2024
A week before the US vote, Omar Ali asks who to vote for and who will win, setting out personal pros and cons: Kamala Harris as the establishment choice, and…
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“Fully Booked”: How Colorism Shapes Who Gets In
Starting from Afro-Brazilian accounts of colourism, X.T.M describes being waved off at two Boston restaurants and seated at once at a third, and reflects on how skin colour and perceived…
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Open Thread – 10/04/2024 – Brown Pundits
What’s going on? I have a new podcast, the Khanversation.
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Bengalis are not totally Burmese in their East Asian ancestry
Razib Khan reports that, with Tibetan samples, Bangladeshi samples look more Tibetan-skewed than Burmese ones, and that Austro-Asiatic groups have a different, more southern East Asian source.
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Major Amin on the Failure of the Pakistani invasion in the First Kashmir War
Major Amin argues that the 1947 tribal invasion of Kashmir failed on the Muzaffarabad-Srinagar axis chiefly because Liaquat Ali Khan and Malik Ghulam Mohammad picked an unqualified relative to lead…
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Browncast: Hussein Ibish on the War in the Middle East
Omar Ali talks to Hussein Ibish of the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington about the Middle East war from a liberal Arab perspective, including a pessimistic outlook. A complement…
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Browncast: Dr Edward Luttwak on Israel and the Grand Strategy of Iran
Omar Ali and Amey talk to Edward Luttwak, described as famously pro-Zionist, about the Iran and Israel clash and each side’s strategy, giving the pro-Israel view of the crisis, with…
