Razib Khan’s Content Aggregation Site

Today Razib talks to repeat guest Steve Hsu about China, a topic with so many currently relevant dimensions gIven the PRC’s clear emergence as an economic, military and political rival to the US. Hsu is a Caltech‑trained theoretical physicist who migra…

Against educational egalitarianism

Today Razib talks to David  Gress, a Danish historian. The son of an American literary scholar and a Danish writer, he grew up in Denmark, read Classics at Cambridge, and then earned a Ph.D. in medieval history from Bryn Mawr College in the US in 1981….

Today Razib talks to David  Gress, a Danish historian. The son of an American literary scholar and a Danish writer, he grew up in Denmark, read Classics at Cambridge, and then earned a Ph.D. in medieval history from Bryn Mawr College in the US in 1981….

Episode forty-eight

Bastille Day edition

On this episode of the Unsupervised Learning podcast, Razib welcomes back Ethan Strauss, a writer who has covered sports and culture for the past decade, including in the book The Victory Machine: The Making and Unmaking of the Warriors Dynasty. More r…

Unsupervised Learning Journal Club #7

The AI hype-cycle continues

Episode forty-seven

Today on Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to David van Ofwegen, a philosophy teacher based in Thailand.

Unsupervised Learning Journal Club #6

Khanversation episode forty-six

  Today Razib talks to Manvir Singh about shamanism, religion and anthropology. Singh is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California, Davis. An artist and essayist, he is also now a regular contributor to The New Yorker…

A heterodox editor reflects on the end of wokeness and what comes after

The Denisovans were always right in front of us

Khanversation episode number forty-three

Key demographic and historical data points for American observers (plus a quiz!)

A rogue philosopher talks about his heterodox views

Khanversation episode forty-four