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Antonio Regalado: CRISPR babies 6 years later
Today Razib talks to Antonio Regalado, reporter at MIT Technology Review. Regalado covers how technology is changing medicine and biomedical research. Before joining MIT Technology Review in 2011, he lived in São Paulo, Brazil, where he …
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Daniel McCarthy: American conservatism after Trump (and before)
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Daniel McCarthy, editor-in-chief of Modern Age. Former editor-in-chief of The American Conservative, his writing has also appeared in the New York Times, USA Today, The Spectator, The National Int…
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Khanversation #31: Heritability of social status, Democratic prospects in the future, Ross Douthat on Religion, the attack on Institutional Science
Khanversation episode thirty
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Charles Murray: 50 years on the public scene
Charles Murray reflects on American politics and culture in 2025
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Tade Souaiaia: the edge of statistical genetics, race and sports
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Tade Souaiaia, a statistical geneticist at SUNY Downstate about his new preprint, Striking Departures from Polygenic Architecture in the Tails of Complex Traits. Souaiaia trained as a comp…
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Khanversation #30: the decline of film since 1999, DOGE and the debt
Khanversation episode thirty
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Titus Techera: Post-Modern Conservative in a post-national Europe
Musings on culture and arts from the right
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Shadi Hamid: pessimism on Palestine but hope in America
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks with Washington Post columnist Shadi Hamid. A native Pennsylvanian of Egyptian ethnic background, and Islamic faith, Hamid completed his Ph.D. in politics at Oxford University. He is an assistan…
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Shadi Hamid: pessimism on Palestine but hope in America
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks with Washington Post columnist Shadi Hamid. A native Pennsylvanian of Egyptian ethnic background, and Islamic faith, Hamid completed his Ph.D. in politics at Oxford University. He is an assistan…
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Khanversation #29: Doge-racism, cancel culture’s end, and the beginning of cancel culture with Pax Dickinson
Khanversation episode twenty-nine
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Conn Carroll: Sex and the Citizen
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Conn Carroll, the author of Sex and the Citizen: How the Assault on Marriage Is Destroying Democracy. Caroll is currently an editor for the Washington Examiner, but previously he was …
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Conn Carroll: Sex and the Citizen
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Conn Carroll, the author of Sex and the Citizen: How the Assault on Marriage Is Destroying Democracy. Caroll is currently an editor for the Washington Examiner, but previously he was …
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Nathan Lents: Sex, truths and gender wars
An evolutionary biological look at sex across the animal kingdom and in current culture wars
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RKUL: Time Well Spent 2/2/2025
Almost end of winter of edition
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Wealth, war and worse: plague’s ubiquity across millennia of human conquest
Unsupervised Learning Journal Club #1
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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.
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Daniel McCarthy: American conservatism after Trump (and before)
The intellectual history of post-World War II conservatism
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When civilization control-alt-deletes: prehistoric Europe’s false dawn and long reboot
Reflecting on Europe’s lost 5,000-year-old first draft
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Dan Hess: the fertility collapse
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib has a wide-ranging conversation with Dan Hess, the man behind the More Births account on social media. An engineer with a large family in the DC area, Hess’ essays on topics like Israelis’ hig…
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Brian Chau: welcoming the AI-age and DeepSeek
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Brian Chau, who writes at the From the New World Substack. A graduate of the University of Waterloo and former software engineer with a background in pure mathematics, today Chau is execut…