Category: Open Thread

I’ll probably be writing a piece (free) for my Substack on caste so that people can use it for a reference. The lie that it was “invented by the British” seems pretty pervasive and will spread in the next few years for various ideological reasons, so it is useful to always remember the truth even…

Adrian Wooldridge has a new book out, The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World. The juxtaposition between the terms aristocracy and meritocracy is amusing. Obviously, I’ve had […]

What’s going on? We’re out of Afghanistan!

I might as well mention that I’ll be doing a Pathan genetics and history room on Clubhouse in a bit over 5 hours. Clubhouse is now open to anyone on all major platforms.

I didn’t post an open thread last week because we haven’t been posting much content. But I’ll post this early. A comment thread emerged on Twitter that “Indian American” culture is basically Punjabi culture. Thoughts? It was a fork on a comment that “German American” culture is a debased form of Bavarian culture. I still…

Patrick Wyman’s The Verge is out. I quite like it. And that’s pretty clear in my review for National Review, Europe on the Verge of a Revolutionary Breakthrough. I assume […]

In case you aren’t subscribed, Akshar interviewed an Afghan official on the latest BP podcast. Our cadence has dropped off lately, but I’m assuming we’ll speed up again at some point soon. On Kushal Mehra’s show talking about Dr…

To prevent the extinction of Adibashis, the Bangladesh government must recognize their right to self-determination.

Patrick Wyman’s The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World is out in ten days. He’ll be doing the podcast circuit. Speaking of which, please leave more […]

Happy birthday soon America. A lot of the comments on the Pew India survey are quite dumb. Some not so dumb. The problem with stupid and emotional responses is that it makes it more difficult to address real issues of bias. Indians: A Brief History of a Civilization looks good. Lots of reviews how it…

Is it my imagination, or is Charles Murray’s new book, Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America getting more traction than his previous book? Probably due to the engagement […]

What’s going on? Books on the Mughals? Something I can find in the USA? I was on Abhinav’s show.

What’s going on? Sweet-meat Islam is the best Islam.

What’s going on? This is an important paper, Why East Asians but not South Asians are underrepresented in leadership positions in the United States.

Peace, Poverty and Betrayal: A New History of British India. Don’t read if you haven’t read on this topic before. Also, check out John Darwin’s Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion […]

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The above video is from Eurovision. A bunch of 20something Italians is doing rock music is pretty weird, since rock is dead for all practice purposes in the USA. I’ve […]

My new Substack piece on Romani genetics and history should be up by now. 6,000 words, so I split it in two.

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