Immigration
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“A Foreign Class of Servants” — JD Vance and the Great American Amnesia
X.T.M criticises JD Vance’s remark about importing ‘a foreign class of servants’, arguing that the moon landing relied on imported German, Jewish and immigrant talent, and that skilled migrants, including…
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Café Concord: A View from the Counter
Writing from a café in Concord, Massachusetts, X.T.M argues that American service spaces sort people by race, class and aesthetics, with white front-of-house staff and Mexican kitchen workers, a pattern…
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🌇 Dispatch from Dubai: The City-State That Arrived
Reflecting on a work trip, Zachary L. Zavidé argues that Dubai has become a city in command, a clean, optimised, culturally rooted prototype city-state, and suggests such cities will attract…
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The Denizens & Dilemmas of Indo-Amerikhana
A long essay on the history and dilemmas of Indian America, from early arrivals such as Bhicaji Balsara and the Ghadar Party to the post-1965 chain migration of Punjabis and…
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The 100th Browncast with Amey the Maratha
The 100th BrownCast: Razib Khan and Amey talk about Sri Lankan genetics, the absence or presence of casteism in the USA, American immigration policy, and how William Dalrymple triggers Amey’s…
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More Sikhs in Canada than India proportionally
A one-line observation that Sikhs are 2.1% of Canada’s population against 1.7% of India’s, after heavy migration to Canada over the last decade.
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Farewell, Houston
A doctor recalls arriving in Houston in 2017 to pursue medical training, the people and places that shaped his years in the city, the move to Galveston for residency, and…
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Amy Wax on “Asians”
Razib Khan reacts to Amy Wax’s remarks about Asians, especially Indian women, on Glenn Loury’s show. He grants her points on South Asian prominence in activism and nations’ right to…
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America has been good to immigrants and we should be honest about who we are
Razib Khan clarifies his Unherd piece: he argues that some South Asian American social justice activists claim the weight of colonialism and oppression to add to their authority despite privileged…
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Moving out of India: The bigger picture
The author, who moved to the US two decades ago, offers young Indians a big-picture view of emigrating now that India’s growth has narrowed the material gap, weighing career and…
