The Equator Podcast

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• "Should we cancel 'The Gods Must Be Crazy?' I don't know"

  May 21, 2026 · 36 min

  This week, Equator's Nesrine Malik talks to the writer Carey Baraka about a piece that isn't out yet – but will be soon, in the first print issue of Equator next month. To receive it, make sure you're subscribed to our Insider or Patron…

• "The American Jewish identity has been weaponised as a cover for genocide"

  May 14, 2026 · 46 min

  Equator's Nesrine Malik talks to the writer Benjamin Moser, whose personal story and political analysis reveal the entanglement between American Judaism and the project of American power. Drawing on his upbringing in a Jewish-American…

• "The American university is simply a corporate institution"

  May 7, 2026 · 29 min

  The American university today, the writer Siddhartha Deb tells Equator's Pankaj Mishra, is "a money-making, MBA- and lawyer-run hedge fund and real estate operation with a minor sideline in education." It's hard, he says, to tell the…

• "Americans are finally aware that their internet isn't free and open"

  April 30, 2026 · 25 min

  Beneath the headlines and half-truths, what is the Chinese internet really like? Equator's Samanth Subramanian speaks to Yi-Ling Liu, author of The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet, who reveals how…

• "Climate change is a class-based disaster"

  April 23, 2026 · 30 min

  This week, Equator's Mohsin Hamid talks to the award-winning writer Amitav Ghosh about how Western NGOs and climate experts have focused their apocalyptic thinking on Bangladesh -- often to the detriment of the Bangladeshis…

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