Category: Open Thread

I’m reviewing Peace, Poverty and Betrayal: A New History of British India for UnHerd. Also, Marie Favereau, author of The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World, will be on […]

What’s going on? COVID-19 in India, the Middle East conflict, etc. I can’t wait for “white boy summer” to really start. Too much news.

At Matt Yglesias’ recommendation, I decided to read By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean: The Birth of Eurasia. It’s decent. Recommended from me too. This Liz Bruenig column, I Became a […]

New Browncast up. It’s about the ’71 genocide (if you haven’t, please subscribe on a podcast app).  I haven’t talked up the Patreon in a while, but all the hosting/editing (we need more than the usual storage since sometimes there are 4-5 podcasts in a month!) is supported by that, so if you like what…

Read The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World. Recommended. The book is really about the Golden Horde, not the whole Mongol world, but it has a pretty international scope. […]

Readers of BP will be interested in a free piece I have on my Substack (I’m writing this before I send it so not a direct link). It’s brown-related.

My piece on India was hated by the Left and far Right (“Trad” Twitter). Both were pretty incoherent and smug too.

Doing some reading for my series on the steppe for my Substack, Empires of Ancient Eurasia: The First Silk Roads Era, 100 BCE – 250 CE is worth reading. The […]

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I’ve been lax about the open threads because I’m busy. Remember you can see what I’m up to at razib.com. What’s going on? What are you reading? I’m really behind […]

What’s going on? Will be posting multi-part series on the steppe on my substack. Also, BP-brand is growing on Clubhouse. Android will come on soon.

Been quiet on this blog for a while. Hope the world is quiet? Did people forget the BP Reddit?

What’s going on? Lots of “brown” chat on Clubhouse.

A long (paid) piece on Substack, They came, they saw, they left no trace… except for all of Western Civilization. This is about the genetics of Italy. My usual 7 PM PDT Friday night chat on Clubhouse will be about the genetics of Italy (Saturday morning India time). this link should work (if you are…

Reading chapter 9 of Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe. Lots of stuff about the Nazis, so juicy. Will put the post up […]

A Muslim Indian is kind of annoyed that I say “Muslims in the subcontinent are descended from Hindus.” By this, I mean 99% of the ancestry. Of course, it can be hard to see the impact of Iranian ancestry. I’m going to look more closely to update my estimate. I recently got contacted by a…

Still reading Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War. The narrative is hard for me to keep track of. I […]

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I was busy. Then we lost power for days. So no updates on this blog. But a lot has happened while I’ve been trying to keep warm. Discuss. I have […]