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Category Archives: India
The Custodianship Question in Asia
Custodianship Question in America The Custodianship Question In Canada, Latin America, Africa Australia, New Zealand Europe Alliance Theory & The Custodianship Question Alliance Theory The literary and intellectual traditions of China, Japan, and Korea are not organized around any of … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Leaders Of India Now
Stephen Turner’s convenient beliefs are operating at full strategic speed in the South Block, South Block annex, the Prime Minister’s Office, and the quiet back-channels with Washington, Tel Aviv, Moscow, and Tehran right now. With the U.S.-Israeli campaign in its … Continue reading
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The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for India’s Master Institutions
India’s high-status actors do not compete for power by admitting they want it. They compete by deploying moral languages that frame their authority as necessary, patriotic, developmental, or constitutional. This is the central insight of David Pinsof‘s Alliance Theory. Moral … Continue reading
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The Rise Of India
Ross Douthat’s latest episode uses this header: “Why the next 30 years belong to India.” I’m not as bullish on India as many experts because the average IQ in India is only about 82. I don’t know how you overcome … Continue reading
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Different Groups Have Different Interests
Written with AI: The visa debate is not stirring up racism against people from India. Real conflicts of interest are fueling that antipathy. The intensity of anti-Indian sentiments is surging now in Australia and America, and it is not primarily … Continue reading
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Hatred Scales Fast
David Pinsof notes: “Hatred is designed to detect negative correlations between our biological fitness and someone else’s.” According to the The Neutralization Theory of Hatred: Hatred is triggered by cues that an individual’s existence causes fitness decrements for the hater. … Continue reading
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Advance Britannia: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1942-1945
This book by historian Alan Allport keeps it real: Underlying this way of life was an obsession with ‘PWR’ – the Prestige of the White Race. It was upon the rock of PWR – rarely spoken out loud but completely … Continue reading
Evelyn Waugh: ‘Strong Mutually Antagonistic Governments Everywhere’
In this piece, Steve Sailer applies his characteristic socio-demographic lens to the intersection of Indian domestic politics and American immigration policy. The central tension he identifies is that a “better ruled” India (under Hindu Nationalism) produces a specific type of … Continue reading
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India’s Uprising
Christopher Caldwell writes for Claremont Review of Books: * Under Modi’s leadership the BJP, founded in 1980 and focused on the aspirations of the 80% of Indians who are Hindu, has become the world’s largest political party. * India’s tiny … Continue reading
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How Indian families took over the Antwerp diamond trade from orthodox Jews
Steve Sailer writes: As a commenter pointed out about my review of This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto by Suketu Mehta, the scion of an Indian diamond merchant clan, diamond merchants are about the last who ought to … Continue reading