Brown Pundits Razib Khan

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First off, this review is mostly for the episodes that Razib hosts/leads. I often don’t have enough background to understand the South Asia-centric episodes unless they are pitched at Americans so I don’t want to judge those.

Razib is brilliant and I could basically listen to him expound on anything (I also love his genetics podcast The Insight). He gets some of the most interesting guests from the heterodox-Twittersphere, with a variety of interests and political perspectives. However, the actual discussions are not always the most engaging — the questions are sometimes pretty generic or it doesn’t feel like Razib is actually interacting with the guest all that much. The ones with a focus on world history or cultural dynamics are generally more interesting than the ones about contemporary politics.

Also the audio quality often fluctuates, fading in or out seemingly at random. Not a big annoyance, just pointing it out.

Conversations and debates you won’t find anywhere in the podcast worth. Editing and audio is of avg. quality. You lose about 5-10% of what’s being said