Razib discusses Christopher Beckwith's The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia with Jasper Gregory.

Abhijit Iyer-Mitra fields questions from Omar, Akshar, and Mukunda, on his intellectual history, defense, and Indian history.

Razib follows up with a guest from Verona, Italy, and what the situation on the ground in Italy is like.

Razib talks to internet personality Yeyo about Sweden's different strategy in relation to COVID-19.

Venkat Dhulipala talks about this book, Creating a New Medina. In it, he examines how the idea of Pakistan was articulated and debated in the public sphere.

Razib talks to Carl Zha about the serious issue of the China-USA Cold War, and also Carl's impending marriage to a Balinese Hindu. https://silknsteel.podbean.com/

Razib and Kushal Mehra, the "Carvaka", discuss COVID-19 and India, and the end of the lockdown. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKPxuul6zSLAfKSsm123Vww

Razib and Sagar talk about the new Chris Hemsworth action flick, set in India and Bangladesh.

Razib talks to Jasper Gregory, and American settled in Danang, Vietnam, about how that nations has dealt with coronavirus, its history with the United States, and its place in broader Southeast Asia. https://twitter.com/jaspergregory

Razib and Josiah Neeley talk to a participant in the Stanford Santa Clara county study which reported that COVID-19 was far less dangerous than we had thought. They talk about why the study design was probably generating an artifactual result.

Twitter thread from participant: https://twitter.com/mattmcnaughton/status/1252584952094310406

The study: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v1