Category: Culture
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When the divine becomes the devlish
Over at his blog Rod Dreher has posted an email exchange we had with the title Razib Khan, Anti-Woke Mage Of Old Religion. Blog-on-blog interaction. Feeling a 2005 vibe! So […]
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Saffron on the outside, woke on the inside
Every few weeks or so I “get into it” with parts of Hindutva Twitter. Some parts of Hindutva Twitter I’m quite friendly with. Other parts, not so much. There is the weird incel-like “Trad Twitter” faction…that always ends up to be strange perverts. But I don’t want to focus on them. Rather, I want to…
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On the varieties of Marxism
Democrats’ Georgia Hopes Rest on Jon Ossoff, 33. How Did He Get Here? He’s rich. That’s it. No need to read the piece, that’s all it is. Yes, he has […]
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Indian Americans are exceptional; no shit sherlock
The Atlantic has a piece up, The Truth Behind Indian American Exceptionalism Many of us are unaware of the special circumstances that eased our entry into American life—and of the bonds, we share with other nonwhite groups. I’m really curious what The Atlantic paid for this piece because it’s a husk of prose that just…
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Riding the pink rocket
Woke brown girls with middle class/upper class dads who say they h8 white bois but only date white bois. pic.twitter.com/GelvYxbhcH — BIMBO_UBERMENSCH (@bimboubermensch) December 3, 2020
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Ancient Germany gotras
The Bell Beakers are an interesting “culture.” A Bronze Age European people defined by their beakers, their origins seem to be amongst non-Indo-Europeans in Southwest Europe. But, at some point, the motifs spread to Indo-Europeans in Central Europe, an offshoot of the Corded Ware people who had admixed further with Neolithic farmers. These Indo-Europeans are…
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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 […]
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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,…
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To my sons: be a man as Poitier is!
The death of Olivia de Havilland made me very sad. For many years I had tracked the passing of various “Golden Age” movie stars. I myself don’t remember this period, […]
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Noakhali rape victim video
Bangladesh: Protests Erupt Over Rape Case: Protests in Bangladesh erupted this week after a video of a group of men attacking, stripping, and sexually assaulting a woman went viral, Human Rights Watch said today. Protesters called for the resignation of Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal over the government’s failure to address an alarming rise in…
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Globalization!
So what is this? What to make of this? We’re in the 21st century, aren’t we.
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Men and women really don’t differ in the generality on abortion
Many years ago I wrote an op-ed which reported the simple and obvious fact that there isn’t a difference between men and women when it comes to abortion as a policy issue. The only reason that the op-ed was written is that the media seem to be under the impression that women are more pro-choice…
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Men and women really don’t differ in the generality on abortion
Many years ago I wrote an op-ed which reported the simple and obvious fact that there isn’t a difference between men and women when it comes to abortion as a policy issue. The only reason that the op-ed was written is that the media seem to be under the impression that women are more pro-choice…
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<em>The WEIRDest People in the World</em>
The argument put forward by Joe Henrich in his new book is audacious and surprising.
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<i>One Billion Americans</i>: A Contrarian Liberal Argues for Mass Immigration
At least the aim of Matt Yglesias in his new book is to revive and strengthen America.
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Why Indian Americans are not the new Jews
In the 2000s I would have arguments with some Indian American friends about the ethnic trajectory of Indian Americans in terms of their similarity American Jews, where I staked out the position that the analogy was superficial (e.g., on the Sepia Mutiny blog). To understand why the analogy doesn’t work, you need to know the…
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Endogamy and assimilation: Parsis in India
The Guardian has a long piece about Parsis, The last of the Zoroastrians. The author is the child of a Parsi mother who married a white Briton. Though he brings his own perspective into the piece, I appreciated that he did not let it overwhelm the overall narrative. The star are the Parsis themselves, not…
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Food between cultures
Recently I read a piece on Indian cuisine from a “woke” perspective, Reclaiming Indian Food from the White Gaze: The same food I was teased for as a kid has become trendy and divorced from its cultural origins. Now, I’m using my cookbook to change the narrative. Obviously I disagree with the ideology interlaced throughout…
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Twitter and the rise and fall of information republics
In the spring of 1995 I was logging into Gopher, reading the CIA Area Handbook series archives, and using Usenet and Talk to communicate with people on the other side of the world. The period between 1995 and 2000 was a wide-open era when phrases like “information wants to be free” were asserted as mantras.…