The Equator Podcast

Navigating the politics, art and culture of the post-American world.

The Equator Podcast is a news podcast hosted by Equator, with 10 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Equator hosts The Equator Podcast, a news show with 10 episodes published.

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  Episode #10

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

  May 21, 202636 minS0

  <p>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 tier of membership.</p><p>For both Nesrine and Carey, the film The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980) is a significant childhood memory, even if they now view it very differently. The movie was an instant global hit that led to a series of sequels and million-dollar paydays for its creators. But as Carey rewatched the film de...

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  Episode #9

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

  May 14, 202646 minS0

  <p>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 community, Benjamin reflects on the values he was raised with and how they intersected with a broader narrative of American exceptionalism. He narrates how the alignment between liberal Zionism and US global dominance has shaped both political discourse and moral frameworks, leading to profound contradictions -- and tragic consequences in Gaza. It's sad, he says, "that Judaism and [the] Jewish identity could be weaponised to...

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  Episode #8

  "The American university is simply a corporate institution"

  May 7, 202629 minS0

  <p>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 difference between "Columbia University and the New School on the one hand and X and Elon Musk on the other."</p><p>Siddhartha, an Indian writer and novelist, came to academia in the US in the belief that it was a citadel of free thought and open minds. But as he wrote in his Equator essay From Calcutta to Columbia, disenchantment set...

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  Episode #7

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

  Apr 30, 202625 minS0

  <p>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 life online in China actually operates – from the subtle, ever-shifting cycles of state oversight to the surprising spaces where creativity and subcultures thrive.</p><p>Increasingly, Yi-Ling is asked by people she meets in America: how should they deal with the constraints and diminishing freedoms of their own internet? The internet began as a utopian promise of a free, open and fair space, bu...

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  Episode #6

  "Climate change is a class-based disaster"

  Apr 23, 202630 minS0

  <p>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 themselves.</p><p>Two-thirds of Bangladesh is less than 15 feet above sea level, making it highly exposed to the rise of oceans, coastal flooding, tropical cyclones and the salination of the soil, all of which threaten homes and food security. Over the centuries, Western development experts have brought their own experiences of Europe and America to bear on the environment of Bangladesh. But as Amitav...

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