Another nice set of essays by Equator on the war

A warning to the bullies of this world: Nemesis is the inescapable retribution that follows the adoration and abuse of force. It is not a moral principle, but a feature of reality, the way that force, pursued beyond limit, blows back upon its wielder. www.equator.org/articles/epi...

“This crisis has always existed": Nesrine Malik talks to the historian Nikhil Pal Singh about the US's imperialist tendencies overseas, and how they're bound up with its violence at home. Find us on any major podcast app, or visit www.equator.org/podcasts.

I appreciate that this piece understands that unless you're South Asian or a cricket fan, you might not grasp how absurd the public erasure of Imran Khan is. Kinda like if Michael Jordan were president, then imprisoned, and then the NBA highlights from the 90s just didn't feature him anymore.

In conversation with @thefootballweekend.com, David Goldblatt reflects on what lies ahead for the World Cup - from global politics to cultural impact. Listen here and sign up for his 2026 World Cup seminar via the Equator website. www.thefootballweekend.com/p/david-gold...

Excellent read from a new (to me) magazine equator.org - well worth a browse 👀

Listening... @equatormag.bsky.social: Positive aspect of this moment: "We Can see more clearly who the enemy is" Reading... @wsj.com Negative aspect of this moment: New ICE detention centers will have no windows.

I wrote a dispatch for @equatormag.bsky.social about mass displacement in Lebanon - the second time in less than two years Israel has forced more than 1 million people to flee their homes here.

The fourth part of our symposium on the American-Israeli war on Iran: Ala’a Shehabi on Gulf security arrangements @justinsalhani.bsky.social reports on mass displacement in Lebanon and a dispatch from a resident who fled Tehran, translated by Salar Abdoh www.equator.org/articles/dea...

🧵 Rahul Bhattacharya’s Railsong follows Charulata’s life alongside a young India, where the Railways shape both identity and unity - powering the nation and inspiring its stories, films, and art.

‪What happens when conflict ends & a country begins picking up the pieces? My glimpse into how Syrians aren't just rebuilding stone but trying to remake relationships that allowed buildings to function as shared space, for excellent new @equatormag.bsky.social #syria www.equator.org/articles/fro...

“In a country redefining its national symbols, holidays, historic heroes and school curriculum, what it even means to be Syrian is an open question.” @raniaab.bsky.social reports from Aleppo: www.equator.org/articles/fro...

Just discovered this very interesting site, Equator, thanks to a friend. Anyone else reading there? Here's a link to a very thoughtful symposium on the war with Iran: www.equator.org/articles/dea...

www.equator.org/articles/the... The Hidden Imran Khan By Osman Samiuddin 21.01.2026reportage The cricketing legend is Pakistan’s most famous man. Can the state make him vanish?

Long read but fascinating. "Epstein’s case is more instructive than Musk’s... Epstein was able to forge unshakeable bonds with his fellow predators by telling them ‘what’s mine is yours’, and keeping the photo evidence." H/T @Adam Tooze www.equator.org/articles/eps...

For context on Lebanon, pick up Andrew Arsan's book: 'Lebanon: A Country in Fragments.' 'An acute portrayal of Lebanon’s unsentimental resilience and exhausting challenges.' @thetls.bsky.social www.hurstpublishers.com/book/lebanon...

“The time is now to create something new" Introducing the Equator podcast, hosted by Pankaj Mishra, Nesrine Malik and Mohsin Hamid. Find us on Spotify, Apple, or any major podcast app of your choice. Visit us at www.equator.org/podcasts to know more.

Finally got around to reading this @naomiaklein.bsky.social essay in @equatormag.bsky.social. Really usefully helpful thinking about surrealism's responses to carnage. And about our own urgently needed responses (as artists, writers, antifascists) to the violence of contemporary fascisms.

INTRODUCING EQUATOR SEMINARS! The 2026 Men's World Cup is set to be the most political tournament in history. David Goldblatt, one of the world's foremost writers on football and society, breaks it all down in our first ever online seminar. Sign Up: www.equator.org/courses/worl...

A helpful potted history of How It Came To This, here. @equatormag.bsky.social is well worth a follow.

Tearing Up the Map: will the war on Iran and Lebanon force the Arab states to accept Israeli hegemony? The historian Andrew Arsan on Netanyahu’s war to remake the Middle East: www.equator.org/articles/tea...

As part of Equator’s event series, Sean Jacobs and Jeremy Harding will discuss Harding’s outstanding new essay collection, “Analogue Africa: Notes on the Anti-Colonial Imagination” Apr 3, from 10 am to 11 am EDT / 3 pm to 4 pm EDT Register for free: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/analogue-a...

What do they of football know who only football know? If you want a crash course on the geopolitics of the World Cup, here’s David Goldblatt, the Eric Hobsbawm of football historians to help you www.equator.org/courses/worl...

This sounds right up the alley for some of my followers. Another short online course on the MAGA World Cup, this time with the one and only David Goldblatt! More info below 👇

NTRODUCING EQUATOR SEMINARS! The 2026 Men's World Cup is set to be the most political tournament in history. @davidgoldblatt.bsky.social, one of the world's foremost writers on football and society, breaks it all down in our first ever online seminar. Sign up: equator.org/courses/worl...

Nice! Linking this just in case: www.equator.org/courses/the-...

"Primal fathers want an extended household, not a family. They gladly transgress the conservative taboos against adultery, incest and intergenerational sex because all members of their household have the status of servant, whatever their blood relationship." www.equator.org/articles/eps...

“As ICE director Todd Lyons explained, the deportation process should be “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings.”” - Nikhil Pal Singh www.equator.org/articles/hom... #DemocracyIncorporated

Melinda Cooper’s essay on the Epstein household and its political economy contains this on Marx and Varoufakis 🎯 www.equator.org/articles/eps...

Homeland Empire | From Venezuela to Minnesota, Trump is creating a borderless American power, collapsing the foreign and the domestic into a single domain of impunity, writes Nikhil Pal Singh in @equatormag.bsky.social, a new magazine of politics, culture and art.

In today’s @equatormag.bsky.social newsletter, a brief reflection on the genocide and the (unspoken) crisis in constitutional law. Read below (or subscribe to Equator). 👇🏼

more excellent and necessary writing from @equatormag.bsky.social | Death and Destruction From the Sky: Responses to the American-Israeli war on Iran www.equator.org/articles/dea...

Forget “epstein class” what about “epstein manorialism”? Melinda Cooper on epstein files www.equator.org/articles/eps...

The third part of our symposium on the American-Israeli war on Iran: @warghetti.bsky.social on bombs over Beirut Aslı Bâli on the arsonists of world order and a dispatch from the first days of war in Tehran, translated by Salar Abdoh www.equator.org/articles/dea...

Briljant artikel av Melinda Cooper: Epstein Family Values www.equator.org/articles/eps...

with my contribution:

The second part of our symposium on the American-Israeli war on Iran: Maryam Tafakory’s letter to Mohsen Makhmalbaf @sinanantoon.bsky.social recalls the Iraq Invasion @selimkoru.bsky.social on Israeli-Turkey tensions Rahmane Idrissa on imperiled international law www.equator.org/articles/dea...

"In refusing to articulate any coherent rationale for launching what has now become a regional conflict, with consequences too vast to calculate, Trump and Netanyahu have sent a clear message: they acted because they could." @equatormag.bsky.social on the adoration of force, intoxicated by impunity:

This discussion is happening today/Monday at 2pm (EST). Hope to see you

Guest editor David Wolf's top pick is a piece from January by Salar Abdoh, an Iranian novelist living in Tehran who was responding to the protests that were then shaking the country. Wolf says it "reveals more about Iran than any number of op-eds could." www.equator.org/articles/the...

"I did not realise how much of the world I aspired to join was dead or dying by the time I arrived at Columbia. Primarily, the idea that apprenticeship at the university might lead to a position of intellectual and economic freedom" www.equator.org/articles/fro...

‘As in The Iliad, the adoration of force has become “the true hero, the true subject” of our times.’ www.equator.org/articles/epi...

"Most European leaders are part of a Cold War generational cohort that was irreversibly socialised into the idea of American primacy. This view of the world is both Panglossian (empire is inherently more stable than multipolar alternatives) and civilisational"

“At the root of so many of our moral and political crises today is what Simone Weil, describing life under European fascism, called ‘the adoration of power in its most brutal form’.” Our editors on the Iran war: @equatormag.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/epi...

Why does the old regime persist? For this @equatormag.bsky.social symposium, I offer some stylised explanations of what the ECFR calls ‘strategic lunacy’: the tenacity of European servility despite the waning of both US power and the benefits of submitting to it. www.equator.org/articles/dea...

"the ideas of limit, measure and equilibrium, which Weil believed ought to determine the conduct of life, survive in western modernity only, she observed with devastating precision, in the vocabulary of technics" on the ongoing relevance of simone weil's philosophy: www.equator.org/articles/epi...

“Force,” Weil wrote, “is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims. The second it crushes; the first it intoxicates.” www.equator.org/articles/epi...

Equator's @krithikavaragur talks to the writer @anand_gopal_ about rethinking foreign correspondence, the Syrian revolution and his new book "Days of Love and Rage." Time: Sunday, 8 March, 1 PM ET / 5 PM GMT on Zoom Register for free! www.eventbrite.com/e/how-i-wrot...

Naghmeh Sohrabi and Arang Keshavarzian talk to Equator's @shainin.bsky.social about the US-Israel war on Iran, the reactions within and outside the country, and the future of the Islamic republic. Register for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-war-on...

“At the root of so many of our moral and political crises today is what Simone Weil, describing life under European fascism, called ‘the adoration of power in its most brutal form’.” Our editors on the Iran war: www.equator.org/articles/epi...