Khanversation #30: the decline of film since 1999, DOGE and the debt
Khanversation episode thirty
Titus Techera: Post-Modern Conservative in a post-national Europe
Musings on culture and arts from the right
Khanversation #29: Doge-racism, cancel culture’s end, and the beginning of cancel culture with Pax Dickinson
Khanversation episode twenty-nine
Nathan Lents: Sex, truths and gender wars
An evolutionary biological look at sex across the animal kingdom and in current culture wars
RKUL: Time Well Spent 2/2/2025
Almost end of winter of edition
Wealth, war and worse: plague’s ubiquity across millennia of human conquest
Unsupervised Learning Journal Club #1
Khanversation #28: The decline of Europe, the rise of the Far Right, the prospects for Trump term 2 and Euro economic stasis
Guest Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry of Policy Sphere.
Daniel McCarthy: American conservatism after Trump (and before)
The intellectual history of post-World War II conservatism
When civilization control-alt-deletes: prehistoric Europe’s false dawn and long reboot
Reflecting on Europe’s lost 5,000-year-old first draft
Brian Chau: welcoming the AI-age and DeepSeek
Two years into the AI-age, and no doom in sight
Khanversation #27: Birthright citizenship, DEI revoked, Greenland dreams and D.C. vibeshift
Khanversation episode twenty-seven
Khanversation #26: “Get a Job!”, Rufo vs. the anons, David Lynch and anticipating Trump 2.0
Khanversation episode twenty-six
Why There Will Not Be a Beige Future
Skin colour, genetics, race, and racism.
Tade Souaiaia: the edge of statistical genetics, race and sports
A statistical geneticist dives into genetic architecture and genetic controversies
In Search of Indo-Europeans in 2024: of Catacombs and Corded Ware
On this episode of Unsuperivsed Learning reviews what we know about Indo-Europeans as 2024 comes to a close. This is prompted by a new preprint Ancient genomics support deep divergence between Eastern and Western Mediterranean Indo-Europea…
We are what we speak: Indo-European phylogenetic and linguistic trees concur
2024’s biggest ancient DNA findings flesh out Proto-Indo-European trunk, branch and roots
Shadi Hamid: pessimism on Palestine but hope in America
The eternal conflict and the decline of identitarianism
Khanversation #25: Biden era, the vibe shift (again) and grooming gangs
Khanversation episode twenty-five
Conn Carroll: Sex and the Citizen
How the Assault on Marriage Is Destroying Democracy
The Horse: Man’s Most Useful Companion
During the Ice Age our ancestors often painted the horse in caves On this week’s episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib covers the archaeology, genetics and history of the horse. Dogs may be man’s best friend, but for thousands of years hor…