Browncast Episode 30: Phillippe Lemoine on philosophy, politics, French immigration & The European Union
Another BP Podcast is up. You can listen on Libsyn, iTunes, Spotify, and Stitcher. Probably the easiest way to keep up the podcast since we don’t have a regular schedule is to subscribe at one of the links above. You can also support the podcast as a patron (the primary benefit now is that you get the podcasts considerably earlier than …
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Already posted a new podcast, “Frawg-talk” on the Patron page. Don’ know when this podcast is going live….
Open Thread, 04/07/2019
So Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain is worth it for the first 2/3 of the book. The last 1/3 is a bunch of stuff about the Emirate of Granada that’s hard to keep track of. If you didn’t know that in 1500 most of the Muslim communities of the peninsula outside […]
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Open Thread, 04/01/2019
The Birth of Modern Belief: Faith and Judgment from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. An interesting book, especially paired with The Rise of Western Christendom. A seismically induced onshore surge deposit at the KPg boundary, North Dakota. This paper is the basis for the article in The New Yorker, The Day the Dinosaurs Died. […]
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Open Thread, 03/18/2019
Going back to finishing Rulers, Religion, and Riches: Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not. My general attitude so far is that I’m skeptical, but the author presents a plausible thesis. Additionally, the book is worth reading because of its engagement with the whole literature in this area. It’s got a […]
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Open Thread, 03/14/2019
Again, recommend Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. Great book. Creating Christian Marriage in Early Islamic Arabia: …perhaps the earliest, of a churchman saying definitively that marriage isn’t marriage without a specific Christian ritual comes from an unexpected corner of the late antique world: the Persian Gulf island of Dayrin (modern Tarut in Saudi […]
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Open Thread, 03/05/2019
Thanks to everyone who has gotten a membership. Still working out a few kinks and trying to enable yearly billing and Papyal (I’m messing up something on the Paypal API). Since someone asked, here is my Patreon for the Brown Pundits podcast. Speaking of that, I’ll be posting a conversation with an Indian middle-class Dalit […]
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Open Thread, 02/24/2019
Probably don’t watch this if you are hungry. It’s on Netflix. The latest episode of The Insight featured a very long discussion with Jeffrey Rose. If you are curious about the relationship of southern Arabia to the cultures of northeast Africa during the Middle Paleolithic, check it out! The Freemasons. Not the deepest book. […]
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Open Thread, 2/18/2019
Peter Turchin’s Ages of Discord is now a free rental if you have Amazon Prime (otherwise you will be prompted for a Kindle Unlimited subscription). If you are interested in the kind of stuff I talk about, I highly recommend all of Peter Turchin’s work. For readers of this weblog Historical Dynamics: Why States Rise […]
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Open Thread, 02/11/2019
Rereading Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West, and it’s striking how different Americans today are in relation to development and economic growth. Yes, we want to be richer, but in large parts of the country, there is a strong t…
BrownCast Podcast episode 14: conversation with a Carvaka
Another BP Podcast is up. You can listen on Libsyn, iTunes and Stitcher. Probably the easiest way to keep up the podcast since we don’t have a regular schedule is to subscribe at one of the links above. You can also support the podcast as a patron (the primary benefit now is that you get the podcasts considerably earlier than everyone else…this podcast …
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Just a note, that two future podcast episodes are up in the patron’s page. One of them on Indian military history and another a discussion with a Hi…