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  • You will be assimilated!

    Michael Lind has a piece in Tablet, The Revenge of the Yankees: How Social Gospel became Social Justice. As a trained American historian, Lind is always a good read and […]

  • A conversation with Charles Murray: a heretic in winter

    Listen now (88 min) | Sometimes guests need no introduction. Charles Murray is certainly one of those individuals. At 77 years, Murray is now mostly retired from AEI, after a lifetime as a public figure, for good or ill. There has been so much said about Murray, his views, and so much Murray himself has…

  • Selection in E Asians due to coronavirus epidemics

    The above map shows cumulative coronavirus cases. One of the things that I’m still confused by are some geographic patterns. For example, Thailand with 70 million people has had fewer […]

  • Open Thread – 11/20/2020

    So I did an AMA on IndiaSpeaks. Someone is now trying to set me up with one on the “India” subreddit. My substack is up. My kids learned about Diwali this week and did some chalk-art from motifs they found. Kind of funny since I didn’t know what “Diwali” was until I was in my…

  • The five lineages of Holocene dogs

    Listen now (64 min) | On this episode of the Unsupervised Learning podcast, I talk to Anders Bergstrom about the new paper in Science, Origins and genetic legacy of prehistoric dogs, on which he is the first author. Some articles on this paper: Ancient Dog DNA Shows Early Spread Around the Globe

  • The Consolations of Free Thought

    [Note: Below is the first newsletter I sent out for my new Substack, Unsupervised Learning] 2020 has sunk the final nail in the coffin of the “End of History” myth. […]

  • The Consolations of Free Thought

    To understand the world as it is, not as we want it to be

  • Totally Under Control—A Review

    Alex Gibney’s Totally Under Control revisits a time, the legacy of which still haunts us. Spanning the period between January of 2020 and late spring of 2020, his new documentary traces the rise of the pandemic which has become a defining feature of our time. A New York

  • Totally Under Control—A Review

    Alex Gibney’s Totally Under Control revisits a time, the legacy of which still haunts us. Spanning the period between January of 2020 and late spring of 2020, his new documentary traces the rise of the pandemic which has become a defining feature of our time. A New York Times headline on January 21st read “China…

  • Open Thread – 11/16/2020 – Gene Expression

    Tomorrow Rhythm of War is out. This is the fourth of Brandon Sanderson’s ten-book Stormlight Archive. I began reading this series ten years ago, when my life was different. I […]

  • The great southern displacement in East Asia

    The new preprint, Genomic Insights into the Demographic History of Southern Chinese, is somewhat inaccurately titled. It’s really more about the progenitors of the various Southeast Asian language families, whose […]

  • Open Thread, 11/14/2020 – Brown Pundits

    I don’t know anything about Diwali, but Happy Holdidays! (I found out that it was Diwali this weekend from Twitter and the comments here). A new podcast on the election results with Josiah Neeley and Richard Hanania. We get kind of spicey by the end, as I make fun of Richard making fun of Peter…

  • Totally Under Control—A Review

    Totally Under Control—the new pandemic documentary written by Alex Gibney, and co-directed by Gibney, Ophelia Harutyunyan, and Suzanne Hillinger—covers the period between January and late spring of 2020. It traces the emergence and spread of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) and examines the dismal response of the American political elite. On January 21st, the…

  • “The Buddhist Age”

    I made an offhand comment on Twitter that I thought might be worth amplifying and elaborating. You can argue that to a great extent the period between 250 AD and 750 AD can be thought of as the “Buddhist Age” in Asia. The year 750 AD is easy as a cut off point, as the…

  • Alina Chan is credible

    A question from long-time reader Riordan: Razib, I’ve been seeing this Twitter thread being passed around my Facebook circles yesterday: It relates to the curiosity of all of these #pangolinpapers […]

  • Open Thread – 11/08/2020 – Gene Expression

    I’ve been busy with a lot of things this week. I plan on putting up a post on the “book club” early this week. Lots of stuff happening in the […]

  • Open Thread – Brown Pundits – 11/7/2020

    Remember the subreddit. Been a busy week for me…we spent election week somewhere very warm and dry! The blog was down for 6 hours the other day due to a problem with our host’s database. Fixed.

  • USA election 2020 open thread

    my final map so i can say “i told u so” if i turn out to be right. i put 5 seconds of thought into this…figure i’d make it a little different than the polls so i wouldn’t be crowded out by others. pic.twitter.com/ExC6gKNPMb — Razib 😈 Khan (@razibkhan) October 23, 2020 Please don’t clutter…

  • Reducing Hindu nationalism to the Enemy

    Politico has a silly piece up, How Hindu Nationalism Could Shape the Election. The silliness is in the title: Hindu nationalism will not shape the election. No one in the USA knows what it is. No one in the USA cares. But headlines need to justify the “deep-dives.” The author clearly had a preconceived conclusion,…

  • Open Thread – 10/31/2020

    I’m going to post about the book club late this week. Very busy and behind. Just a heads up, I haven’t forgotten. Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenge and Choices of Interpreting […]

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