Immigration
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Browncast episode 74: Maratha Bro Amey Talks Immigration, Ayodhya, etc
BrownCast episode 74: Razib talks to Amey, the site’s self-described resident Maratha philosopher, about US immigration policy, the Ayodhya dispute and whatever else comes up. The conversation is open-ended, with…
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Generations don’t exist, and neither do “immigrants”
Prompted by an online dispute over ‘second-generation immigrants’, the author argues that generations are a convenient binning of continuous variation, that immigrant should apply only to those born abroad, and…
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Browncast Episode 30: Philippe Lemoine on philosophy, politics, French immigration & The European Union
On Browncast Episode 30, philosopher and data scientist Philippe Lemoine discusses his path from computer science to philosophy of science, his hard-headed analysis of migration into France, and his sanguine…
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The Immigrants Anthem
The poster shares an Irish Times passage likening love for a second country to love for a second child, and says it expresses his own view of national identity as…
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London(istan)
The author observes that the English of the Home Counties are more guarded about demographic change than Scots, and adds that South Asians always see themselves as a minority because…
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This is America
Links an interview with Reihan Salam, son of Bangladeshi immigrants, on his book making the case against open borders. The poster says he mostly agrees with Salam and remarks that…
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The passing
Reading Pankaj Mishra’s New York Times op-ed on white nationalism, the author argues that even progressive whites show revealed preferences for living among other whites, citing Bill Clinton’s own town,…
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Sheryl Sandberg desi lookalike speaks out against Trump
X.T.M shares Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s speech condemning the child separation crisis at the US border as a human rights violation, and adds an aside on her resemblance to Sheryl Sandberg.
