Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning

On the third episode of the Intellectual Brown Web  (IBW)  Razib ,  Sarah Haider  of  A Special Place in Hell  (and her own  Substack ),  Shadi Hamid  of  The Washingon Post  (plus  Wisdom of the Crowds  and his own  Substack ) and  Murtaza Hussain  of  The Intercept  (and his own  Substack ) discuss the effects of the Hamas atrocities and the now impending Israeli invasion of Gaza on both geopoli...

  In September 2023, Harper Collins published Richard Hanania's   The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics , two months after  Christopher Rufo's   America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything . Both these books tackle the same issue: the US's Leftist cultural direction, especially since 2015, and what  Matthew Ygles...

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  Today, Razib revisits The Horse, the Wheel, and Language  with  David Anthony , emeritus professor at Hartwick College and collaborator with  David Reich's   ancient DNA research group  at Harvard University. Anthony and Razib survey the last two years in terms of questions regarding the domestication of the horse, the spread of the wheel, and  Yamnaya  steppe herders' language; subjects of his...

Today, Razib talks to  Erik Hoel , host of the Substack  The Intrinsic Perspective  and author of  The World Behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science . An  academic neuroscientist  by training, in  The World Behind the World  Hoel outlines the emergence of modern neuroscience, and where it went wrong in terms of the field's researchers' focus. But first, Hoel discusses...

On this episode of the  Unsupervised Learning  podcast, Razib talks to internet commentator formerly known as  default friend  who is perhaps better known today as the internet culture writer  Katherine Dee . Dee is a regular contributor to  Retvrn ,  The Washington Examiner ,  The American Mind ,  Tablet Magazine  and  UnHerd . She has also recently written a piece for  Compact :  Why You're Neve...

Today Razib talks to  Inez Stepman , a senior policy analyst at the  Independent Women's Forum , a Lincoln Fellow with the  Claremont Institute  and a senior contributor to  The Federalist . Stepman also hosts two podcasts,  High Noon  and  Clown Car . She and Razib first discuss the current distress, both economic and cultural, in higher education as several decades of bloat, inflation-beating co...

https://razib.substack.com This is where you will find all the podcasts from Razib Khan's Substack and original video content. On this episode of Unsupervised Learning  Razib talks to  Dr. Cory J. Clark , a behavioral scientist and executive director of the  Adversarial Collaboration Project  at the University of Pennsylvania. Clark got her Ph. D. in social psychology at UC Irvine, but her interes...

On this episode of  Unsupervised Learning  Razib talks with  Alex Young  of UCLA and  James Lee  of the University of Minnesota about  quantitative genetics  and its relationship to complex traits and the genomic revolution. Young, trained as a mathematician, and Lee, trained as a psychologist, have both converged upon  research   programs  exploring the role of genetics in generating variation in...

On this episode of  Unsupervised Learning  Razib talks to  Aporia Magazine's   Diana Fleischman , an evolutionary psychologist who earned her Ph. D. in David Buss' lab at the University of Texas in Austin. Fleischman discusses the origins of her field, its methodological framework and presuppositions, and why evolutionary psychologists seem obsessed with sex. Razib also brings up the relationship...

https://razib.substack.com This is where you will find all the podcasts from Razib Khan's Substack and original video content. On this episode of  Unsupervised Learning  Razib talks to  Nicola Buskirk  of  Elessar Books  (see her  Substack ). A 2022 graduate of Stanford University, Buskirk has already had positions at Substack (she was behind the  At Length series ), Thiel Foundation, Hoover Insti...

https://razib.substack.com This is where you will find all the podcasts from Razib Khan's Substack and original video content. On this week's episode of  Unsupervised Learning  Razib talks to  Hannah Frankman  about the past, present and future of education. Frankman is a Hazlitt Fellow at the  Foundation for Economic Education , the founder of  Rebel Educator , and the host of an  eponymous podca...

https://razib.substack.com This is where you will find all the podcasts from Razib Khan's Substack and original video content. Today Razib talks to Lyman Stone , a demographer and Ph. D. candidate at McGill University, about the fall, rise and fall of religion in America. In 2020, Stone published a report,  Promise and Peril: The History of American Religiosity and Its Recent Decline , where he ou...

https://razib.substack.com This is where you will find all the podcasts from Razib Khan's Substack and original video content. On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib hosts three guests, Sarah Haider of A Special Place in Hell (and her own Substack), Shadi Hamid of the Brookings Institute (and Wisdom of the Crowds and his own Substack) and Murtaza Hussain of The Intercept (and his own Subst...

In the fall of 2022  Liz Truss was the UK's Prime Minister for 44 days. Her tenure was cut short by turmoil in the financial markets, as her attempts to roll out policies similar to the US's 1980's program of " Reaganomics " that combined lower taxes and higher deficits triggered panic and an  intervention from the Bank of England . In retrospect, the problem was that the British elite periodicall...

Mukherjee is a Paulson Policy Analyst at the Manhattan Institute and a Ph. D. student in American politics at Boston College, where her dissertation will focus on affirmative action. Razib asks Mukherjee to discuss the origin of affirmative action as it is practiced in the US today, starting with the Bakke decision in 1978, and then moving on to Grutter vs. Bollinger in 2003. She then moves to the...

In June 1991, The New York Times published a  piece  titled "Scientists Study Ancient DNA for Glimpses of Past Worlds." Published a year after Michael Crichton's 1990 novel  Jurassic Park , on which the 1993 blockbuster would be based, the article opens "Will it one day become possible to breed a living dinosaur from genes preserved in fossils?" More than 30 years on, we obviously have not bred a...

On this episode of  Unsupervised Learning ,   Razib talks to journalist  Lee Fang . Formerly an investigative reporter at  The Intercept  and a contributing writer at  The Nation , Fang began his journalism career at  ThinkProgress . As an undergraduate, Fang was president of the University of Maryland College Democrats, and interned for Democratic representatives Stephanie Tubbs Jones and Steny H...

On this episode of  Unsupervised Learning  Razib hosts  Ross Douthat , author of  Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics ,  Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class ,  Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream ,  The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery   and   The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Ow...

On this week's  Unsupervised Learning  Razib welcomes back a favorite repeat guest,  Samo Burja , to discuss matters future, present and past. Burja founded the consulting firm  Bismarck Analysis  and developed the " great founder theory ." He contributes to  Palladium Magazine ,  Asia Times ,  City Journal , and  The National Interest . Burja's first appearance on the  podcast , recorded in the f...

A few years ago now, Razib talked to  Tim Lee  about his new Substack  Full Stack Economics , which featured deep dives into economic issues (as well as some on-the-ground-reporting, like when  he drove  Lyft to get a feel for its economics). But recently, Lee decided to put  Full Stack Economics  on pause to focus on a new Substack:  Understanding AI . Artificial intelligence is hot right now, bu...

Recently, scientists  discovered  that a two-year mega-drought beginning in 1198 BC hastened the Hittite Empire's collapse. The finding sheds new light on the history of the decades around 1200 BC, adding specificity to the timing and cause for the period's social and political chaos. Today on the  Unsupervised Learning  podcast Razib discusses the "Bronze Age Collapse," the end of the first globa...

On this episode of the Unsupervised Learning podcast, Razib talks to Peter Nimitz, the author behind the Nemets Substack, which explores topics as diverse as the 2014 Donbass War and the likelihood of Eurasian migration into Chad thousands of years ago. Razib and Nimitz walk through his recent post, the Seven Ages of Western Eurasia: A brief outline of the 11,700 years from the Anatolian Farmers t...

Alex Feinberg  is anything but your typical trainer. An economics graduate from Vanderbilt, Feinberg willed himself to become a professional baseball player through focus and hard work and then talked his way into a sales and business development job at Google. In the late 2010's Feinberg moved into the crypto space, but found that one precondition to success was having a large Twitter following....