Manifesto!
A podcast that explores historical manifestos and the people behind them, hosted by writers Phil Klay and Jacob Siegel. Each episode delves into the archives of vanity, examining how individuals who stopped creating myths turned to issuing commandments. The show is sponsored by Fairfield University, where Phil Klay teaches. It aims to provoke thought about the nature of belief and ideology.
Episodes
Episode 90: Belonging in the Modern World
Phil and Jake are joined by the philosopher Ian Marcus Corbin, whose new book To Arrive Where We Started: Belonging in the Modern World, is out today. We discuss Nancy Fraser and bell hooks.
The Manifesto:
Nancy Fraser, "From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump--and Beyond"
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/11/progressive-neoliberalism-trump-beyond/
The Art:
bell hooks, "Habits of
Episode 89: Madame Murdoch
Jake and Phil are joined by Jenn Frey, a philosopher at the University of Virginia, to discuss Iris Murdoch and Madame Bovary
The Manifesto:
Iris Murdoch - The Sovereignty of Good
https://eganphilosophy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Murdoch-The-Sovereignty-of-Good-Over-Other-Concepts.pdf
The Art:
Flaubert - Madame Bovary
Manifesto! A Podcast is sponsored by Fairfield University
Episode 88: Suprematism and the poetry of Ukraine
Jake and Phil are joined by Vladislav Davidzon to discuss Kazimir Malevich's The Manifesto of Suprematism and the poetry of Serhiy Zhadan.
The Manifesto:
Malevich, The Manifesto of Suprematism
https://designmanifestos.org/kazimir-malevich-the-manifesto-of-suprematism/
The Art:
Serhiy Zhadan
https://poetrysociety.org/poems/three-poems-by-serhiy-zhadan
https://www.wordsforwar.com/take-on
Episode 87: The Information State
Jake and Phil discuss Jake's new book, THE DISINFORMATION STATE, where he argues that the technological infrastructure we've built to make society safer and more rational has steadily replaced democratic freedoms with systems of digital control.
To buy the book:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250363121/theinformationstate/
Episode 86: Spacers, Fictosexuals and Freaks
Jake and Phil are joined by internet culture reporter Katherine Dee to discuss The Fictosexual Manifesto and "Aye and Gomorrah..." by Samuel Delany
The Manifesto:
The Fictosexual Manifesto
https://vocal.media/humans/fictosexual-manifesto
The Art:
Samuel Delany, "Aye and Gomorrah..."
https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fiction/aye-and-gomorrah/
Episode 85: Zarathustra and Judge Holden
Phil and Jake are joined by Aaron Gwyn, an author and associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, to discuss Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian.
The Manifesto:
Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1998/1998-h/1998-h.htm
The Art:
McCarthy, Blood Meridian
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.c
Episode 84: Philip Roth and Ecclesiastes
Jake and Phil discuss Philip Roth's 1961 essay "Writing American Fiction" and the Qohelet, also known as the Book of Ecclesiastes
The Manifesto:
Philip Roth, "Writing American Fiction"
https://www.commentary.org/articles/philip-roth/writing-american-fiction/
The Qohelet
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%201&version=KJV
Episode 83: Resist and Howl
Jake and Phil are joined by Amy Sohn, author of The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age, to discuss the 1967 anti-war manifesto A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority and Allen Ginsberg's 1956 poem Howl.
The Manifesto:
A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority
https://vietnamwar.lib.umb.edu/warHome/docs/1967CallToResistIllegit.html
The Art:
Allen
Episode 82: The Dark Mountains of Madness
Jake and Phil are joined by Roy Scranton, author of Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress, to discuss the Dark Mountain Manifesto by Paul Kingsnorth and Dougald Hine and The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft.
The Manifesto:
The Dark Mountain Manifesto
https://dark-mountain.net/about/manifesto/
The Art:
HP Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
https://www.hplovecraft.com/writi
Episode 81: In the Moral Wilderness with MacIntyre and Camus
Jake and Phil discuss Alasdair MacIntyre’s Notes from the Moral Wilderness and Camus’ short story The Guest
The Manifesto:
Alasdair MacIntyre, Notes from the Moral Wilderness
https://www.scribd.com/document/123091458/Notes-from-the-Moral-Wilderness-Alasdair-MacIntyre
The Art:
Camus, The Guest
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1957/12/the-guest/642533/
Episode 80: Thomas Mann and Abraham Lincoln in Wartime
Phil is joined by Morten Hoi Jensen, literary critic and author of the forthcoming "The Master of Contradictions
Thomas Mann and the Making of The Magic Mountain," to discuss Thomas Mann's 1914 "Thoughts in Wartime" and Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
The Manifesto:
Thomas Mann, "Thoughts in Wartime"
https://www.nyrb.com/products/reflections-of-a-nonpolitical-man
The Art: Ab
Episode 79: Kitsch, Pop, and Democratic Art
Jake and Phil discuss Clement Greenberg's 1939 "Kitsch and the Avant-Garde" alongside Taylor Swift's "I Knew You Were Trouble" and Leonard Cohen's "Chelsea Hotel No. 2"
The Manifesto:
Clement Greenberg, "Avant-Garde and Kitsch"
https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1606923282/slcschoolsorg/wumlyaskvhhzawsvbbzc/Avant-GardeandKitsch.pdf
The Art:
Taylor Swift, "I Knew You Were Trouble"
Episode 78: Reflections on the Atom Bomb
Jake and Phil discuss Teilhard de Chardin's 1946 Some Reflections on the Spiritual Repercussions of the Atom Bomb and Charles Mingus' "Oh Lord Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb on Me," off of his 1962 album Oh Yeah.
The Manifesto:
Teilhard de Chardin - "Some Reflections on the Spiritual Repercussions of the Atom Bomb"
https://www.religion-online.org/book-chapter/chapter-8-some-reflect
Episode 77: Fascist Apologetics and the Memoirs of an Anti-Semite
Jake and Phil discuss David Jones 1939 essay on Hitler, courtesy of Thomas Dilworth's "David Jones and Fascism," alongside Gregor von Rezzori's "Troth," from his Memoirs of an Anti-Semite
The Manifesto:
Thomas Dilworth, "David Jones and Fascism"
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3831437
The Art:
Gregor von Rezzori, "Troth," from his Memoirs of an Anti-Semite
https://www.newyorker.com/magazin
Episode 76: Against Poets
Phil and Jake discuss Witold Gombrowicz's "Against Poets" and Czeslaw Milosz's "Ars Poetica?"
The Manifesto:
Witold Gombrowicz, "Against Poets"
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.12987/9780300183399-006/html?lang=en&srsltid=AfmBOopUFE9LX61sfmOAYszduQw78uOlvfHGgFOUPvi-0afjm9eQ2nhI
The Art:
Czeslaw Milosz, "Ars Poetica?"
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49455/ars-poetica
Episode 75: American Honor and the Iliad
Jake and Phil discuss Phil's New York Times essay "Trump, Hegseth, and the Honor of the American Military" and Homer's "Embassy to Achilles"
The Manifesto:
Phil Klay, "Trump, Hegseth, and the Honor of the American Military"
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/opinion/trump-hegseth-military-morality.html
The Art:
Homer, "Embassy to Achilles"
https://www.penguinbookshop.com/book/978014027
Episode 74: Christmas Poetry and the Pogues
Jake and Phil discuss Thomas Hardy’s The Oxen, TS Eliot’s Journey of the Magi, and The Pogues Fairytale of New York
Thomas Hardy - The Oxen
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53215/the-oxen-56d232503c32d
TS Eliot - Journey of the Magi
https://poetryarchive.org/poem/journey-magi/
The Pogues - Fairytale of New York
https://youtu.be/j9jbdgZidu8?si=AWYk4ya5bFPUyFtd
Episode 73: Is America Ready for a Religious Revival?
Jake and Phil are joined by Ross Douthat, New York Times columnist and author of the forthcoming Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious, to discuss Ross' essay "Is the World Ready for a Religious Comeback" and Christian Wiman's 2008 essay in the American Scholar, "My Bright Abyss"
The Manifesto:
Ross Douthat, "Is the World Ready for a Religious Comeback"
https://www.nytimes.com/202
Episode 72: Revolutionary Art and Coat-Snatching Ghosts
Jake and Phil discuss Leon Trotsky's "Communist Policy Toward Art" and Gogol's "The Overcoat"
The Manifesto:
Leon Trotsky - "Communist Policy Toward Art"
https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1924/lit_revo/ch07.htm
The Art
Gogol - "The Overcoat"
https://www.fountainheadpress.com/expandingthearc/assets/gogolovercoat.pdf
Episode 71: Politics and Merciless Nature
Phil and Jake discuss Joan Didion's "Politics in the New Normal America" and Robinson Jeffers "Fire on the Hills"
The Manifesto:
Joan Didion, Politics in the New Normal America
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2004/10/21/politics-in-the-new-normal-america/
The Art:
Robinson Jeffers, Fire on the Hills
https://ronnowpoetry.com/contents/jeffers/FireontheHills.html
For more on Jeffers in C
Episode 70: Punk and Metal
Jake and Phil are joined by Nate DiMeo, podcaster and author of the forthcoming The Memory Palace, to discuss the Riot Grrrl Manifesto, Steve Albini's The Problem with Music, and The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
The Manifestos:
Kathleen Hanna, The Riot Grrrl Manifesto
https://actipedia.org/project/riot-grrrl-manifesto
Steve Albini, The Problem with Music
ht
Episode 69: Should We Bring Children Into Existence?
Phil and Jake are joined by Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman, the authors of What Are Children For? On Ambivalence and Choice, to discuss David Benatar's 1997 paper "Why It Is Better Never to Come into Existence," alongside Paul Schrader's 2017 film First Reformed.
The Manifesto:
David Benatar - "Why It Is Better Never to Come into Existence"
https://www.jstor.org/stable/20009904
The
Episode 68: The Serious Artist
Jake and Phil are joined by the poet and critic Alice Gribbin to discuss Ezra Pound's The Serious Artist and Eliot Weinberger's The Life of Tu Fu
The Manifesto:
Ezra Pound, The Serious Artist
https://archive.org/details/literaryessaysof00poun/page/n5/mode/2up
The Art:
Eliot Weinberger, The Life of Tu Fu
https://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-life-of-tu-fu/
For more of Alice's writing:
http
Episode 67: Wallace Stegner's Crossing to Safety
Jake and Phil are joined by Sam Kimbriel, director of the Aspen Institute's Philosophy and Society Initiative, to discuss Wallace Stegner's 1987 novel Crossing to Safety.
Episode 66: Hobbits, Goblins and the Very Adult World of Fairy-Stories
Jake and Phil are joined by the novelist and chronicler of post-secular religious movements, Tara Isabella Burton, to discuss J.R.R. Tolkien's 1939 essay “On Fairy-Stories” and Christina Rossetti's 1862 poem, "Goblin Market."
The manifesto:
https://ieas-szeged.hu/downtherabbithole/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Tolkien-On-Fairy-Stories.pdf
The Art:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/449
Episode 65: Orwell and Ukraine
Phil and Jake are joined by the Matt Gallagher, author of Daybreak, to discuss George Orwell's "Looking Back on the Spanish War", and Benjamin Busch's photographs from Ukraine, "Nine Dialogues: Conflict in Context"
The Manifesto:
George Orwell, "Looking Back on the Spanish War"
https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/looking-back-on-the-spani
Episode 64: Power of the Powerless and the Velvet Underground
Jake and Phil are joined by the novelist and essayist Jared Marcel Pollen to discuss Vaclav Havel’s “The Power of the Powerless” and The Velvet Underground’s second album, White Light/White Heat
The Manifesto:
https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/wp-content/uploads/1979/01/the-power-of-the-powerless.pdf
The Art:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJy0LP8iYPg&list=PLaVHibd49QFIsKywss9J
Episode 63: How Money Culture Hurts the American Family and Girls
Jake and Phil discuss "How Money Culture Hurts the American Family," by Ian Marcus Corbin, and episode seven of the first season of Girls
The Manifesto:
Ian Marcus Corbin, "How Money Culture Hurts the American Family"
https://www.capita.org/money-culture
Girls, Welcome to Bushwick a.k.a. The Crackcident
https://www.hbo.com/girls/season-1/7-welcome-to-bushwick-a-k-a-the-crackcident
Episode 62: Last Men and Women: George Scialabba and the Challenge of Modernity
Jake and Phil are joined live at Fairfield University by the great critic and essayist George Scialabba to discuss Last Men and Women
At a time of war, impending ecological disaster, and partisan rage, our commitments to the modern, liberal order are being questioned like never before. Do we understand ourselves best as individuals or as members of a community? Must we renew our absolute
Episode 61: Red Music and Mal Waldron
Jake and Phil discuss Josef Skvorecky's "Red Music," an account of playing jazz under Nazism and Communism, alongside Mal Waldron's "Mal Waldron Plays Erik Satie"
The Manifesto:
Josef Skvorecky, "Red Music"
https://harpers.org/archive/1986/03/red-music/
The Art:
Mal Waldron, "Mal Waldron Plays Erik Satie"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juNNxsUXvQw
Episode 60: The Palestinian People and the Western Observer
Phil talks with poet and translator Philip Metres about the current conflict, the position of a Western observer in regards to what is happening in Gaza, his poem "Remorse for Temperate Speech," as well as his book "Returning to Jaffa."
https://philipmetres.com
Episode 59: Israel and Hamas
Phil asks Jake about the recent conflict in Israel, and they take listener questions.
Episode 58: The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu
Phil is joined by Sam Kimbriel, director of the Aspen Institute's Philosophy and Society Initiative, and Jennifer Shyue, a Spanish language literary translator, to discuss her recently published translation of Augusto Higa Oshiro's The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu.
https://archipelagobooks.org/book/the-enlightenment-of-katzuo-nakamatsu/
Episode 57: Some Lying and Some BS
Jake and Phil are joined by Walter Kirn to discuss Kirn's essay "The Bullshit" alongside Mark Twain's "My First Lie and How I Got Out of It"
The Manifesto:
Walter Kirn, "The Bullshit"
https://walterkirn.substack.com/p/the-bullshit
The Art:
Mark Twain's "My First Lie and How I Got Out of It"
https://americanliterature.com/author/mark-twain/short-story/my-first-lie-and-how-i-got-out-of-it
Episode 56: The Secular Saint
Jake and Phil are joined by Santiago Ramos, a contributing writer to Commonweal Magazine, to discuss Michael Novak's The Secular Saint and the epilogue to Michel Houellebecq's 1998 novel The Elementary Particles.
The Manifesto:
Michael Novak, The Secular Saint
https://www.amazon.com/theology-radical-politics-Michael-Novak/dp/B0006BZ4H2
The Art:
Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Partic
Episode 55: The Great Mating Debate
Phil is joined by Becca Rothfeld, BD McClay, and Jon Baskin to discuss Norman Rush's 1991 novel Mating, and whether it offers a roadmap for love in the 21st century.
Becca Rothfeld is the nonfiction book critic at the Washington Post and an editor at the Point.
BD McClay is an essayist and critic who has written for publications like Lapham's Quarterly, The New Yorker, and New York Time
Episode 54: Nirvana and The Trials of the Young
Phil is joined by the great novelist, short story writer and essayist Mary Gaitskill to discuss Gaitskill's essay "The Trials of the Young" in the most recent Liberties Journal, alongside the Nirvana songs "Drain You" and "Moist Vagina."
The Manifesto:
Mary Gaitskill, "The Trials of the Young "
https://marygaitskill.substack.com/p/the-despair-of-the-young
The Art:
Nirvana, "Drain You"
Episode 53: Poe's Law and Philip K. Dick's Faith of Our Fathers
Jake and Phil are joined by Gurwinder Bhogal to discuss Poe's Law and Philip K. Dick's Faith of Our Fathers
The Manifesto: "Poe's Law"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
The Art: Philip K. Dick's "Faith of Our Fathers"
https://genius.com/Philip-k-dick-faith-of-our-fathers-annotated
Also discussed:
Gurwinder Bhogal, "The Best Cure for Fake News is Fake News"
https://rabbitholemag
Episode 52: True Believers and the Case of the Writer Turned Congressman
Jake and Phil are joined by former Michigan Congressman Peter Meijer to discuss longshoreman philosopher Eric Hoffer’s 1951 book, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, and the poem “On Reading Crowds and Power,” by Geoffrey Hill.
The Manifesto (an edition with some very cool cover art):
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
https://archive.org
Episode 51: A Public Address, A Colloquium, or Maybe Just a Q&A
Jake and Phil answer questions from our listeners.
Episode 50: El Greco, Picasso, and The Pleasures of Ignorance
Jake and Phil discuss Aldous Huxley's "Meditation on El Greco", and Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
The Manifesto:
Aldous Huxley - "Meditation on El Greco"
https://cooperative-individualism.org/huxley-aldous_meditation-on-el-greco-pleasure-that-comes-from-ignorance.pdf
The Art:
Picasso - Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79766?sov_referrer=theme&
Episode 49: Angry Popes and Architecture
Jake and Phil are joined by John Davis, an environmental and architectural historian at the Knowlton School at Ohio State, to discuss Pascendi Dominici Gregis, Pope Pius X's encyclical against the modernists, and Antoni Gaudí’s La Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona, Spain.
The Manifesto:
Pascendi Dominici Gregis, Pope Pius X
https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-x/en/encyclicals/docume
Episode 48: The Ultimate Revolution
Jake and Phil are joined by Becca Rothfeld (https://www.beccarothfeld.com/) to discuss Shulamith Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex and Sheila Heti's That Longing for a Holy Completeness (from her novel MOTHERHOOD)
Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex
http://biopolitics.kom.uni.st/Shulamith%20Firestone/The%20Dialectic%20of%20Sex_%20The%20Case%20for%20Feminist%20Revolution%20(139)/The
Episode 47: The Democracy Engineering Complex
Phil is joined by Sam Kimbriel, the founding director of Aspen's Philosophy & Society Initiative, to discuss Sam's essay "What the Democracy Engineering Complex Misses"
The Manifesto:
Sam Kimbriel, What the Democracy Engineering Complex Misses
https://wisdomofcrowds.live/the-democracy-engineering-complex/
Episode 46: Sunday Morning and God's Grandeur
Jake and Phil discuss Wallace Stevens' "Sunday Morning" and Gerard Manley Hopkins' "God's Grandeur."
The Manifesto:
Wallace Stevens' "Sunday Morning"
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/13261/sunday-morning
The Art:
Gerard Manley Hopkins' "God's Grandeur."
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44395/gods-grandeur
Works referenced:
Wallace Stevens, The Idea of Or
Episode 45: Spielberg and Roxy Music
Jake and Phil are joined by culture critic Armond White to discuss Make Spielberg Great Again and Roxy Music's 1979 album Manifesto
The Manifesto:
Make Spielberg Great Again (specifically focusing on the chapters "The Wailing Wall" and "Steven Spielberg's Obama"), Armond White
https://www.amazon.com/Make-Spielberg-Great-Again-Chronicles/dp/0984215913
The Art:
Roxy Music, Manifesto
http
Episode 44: We're All Stars Now In the Dope Show
Jake and Phil are joined by James Poulos, author of Human Forever: The Digital Politics of Spiritual War, to discuss Jacques Ellul and Marilyn Manson.
The Manifesto:
Jacques Ellul, Propaganda - Chapter 5 (The Socio-Political Effects”), Part 3 (“Propaganda and Grouping), section “Effects on the Churches.”
https://monoskop.org/images/4/44/Ellul_Jacques_Propaganda_The_Formation_of_Mens_At
Episode 43: Tradition and the Individual Talent
Jake and Phil discuss T.S. Eliot's "Tradition and the Individual Talent", and James Joyce's "A Mother"
The Manifesto:
T.S. Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent"
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69400/tradition-and-the-individual-talent
The Art:
James Joyce, "A Mother"
http://www.online-literature.com/james_joyce/963/
Episode 42: The Transmogrifications of Gary Leib
Phil is joined by Peter Catapano, of the New York Times, and graphic novelist Jess Ruliffson to discuss Peter's essay on the life and work of cartoonist Gary Leib
The Manifesto:
Peter Catapano, “I’m Going to Make a Fire”: The Transmogrifications of Gary Leib
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/im-going-to-make-a-fire-the-transmogrifications-of-gary-leib/
The Art:
Gary Leib's animation
Episode 41: To Be Incarnational
Jake and Phil are joined by the great poet Tom Sleigh to discuss his essay "To Be Incarnational," on the World War I poetry of David Jones, as well as Tom's poem "In Which a Spider Weaves a Web on My Computer Screen"
The Manifesto:
Tom Sleigh, To Be Incarnational
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/70066/to-be-incarnational
The Art:
Tom Sleigh, "In Which a Spider
Episode 40: Flannery O'Connor versus Andre Dubus II
Jake and Phil (finally) discuss Flannery O'Connor's Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction, alongside Andre Dubus II's short story Killings
The Manifesto:
Flannery O'Connor, Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction
https://bscc.instructure.com/courses/4608/files/434937/download?download_frd=1
Audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMrveIu0DdE
The Art:
Andre Dubus II
Episode 39: What Jazz Is and Isn't
Jake and Phil are joined by jazz pianist and composer Ethan Iverson to discuss Wynton Marsalis' "What Jazz Is—and Isn't", as well as Marsalis' 1985 album J Mood.
The Manifesto:
Wynton Marsalis - "What Jazz Is—and Isn't",
https://wyntonmarsalis.org/news/entry/music-what-jazz-is-and-isnt
The Art:
Wynton Marsalis - J Mood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PerIfsVGl_0
Ethan Iverson's websit
Episode 38: My Quarrel with Authentic Reactionaries
Jake and Phil are joined by Joseph Keegin to discuss Nicolás Gómez Dávila‘s “The Authentic Reactionary,” and Chaim Grade’s classic of Yiddish literature: “My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner”
The Manifesto:
Nicolás Gómez Dávila‘s “The Authentic Reactionary”
https://isi.org/modern-age/the-authentic-reactionary/
The Art:
Chaim Grade’s “My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner”
https://mosaicmagazin
Episode 37: Humane War
Phil is joined by Samuel Moyn to discuss his new book, Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War, alongside Kathe Kollwitz's The Survivors
The Manifesto:
Samuel Moyn - Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374173708/humane
The Art:
Kathe Kollwitz, The Survivors
https://aestronauts.com/post/114048762630
Episode 36: The Simple Art of Murder
Jake and Phil discuss Raymond Chandler's The Simple Art of Murder, alongside Ross MacDonald's novel Black Money.
The Manifesto:
http://jacksharman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Raymond-Chandler-Simple-Art-of-Murder.pdf
The Art:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/105230/black-money-by-ross-macdonald/
Episode 35: Did You Kill Anyone?
Jake and Phil are joined by Scott Beauchamp to discuss his new book, Did You Kill Anyone? Reunderstanding My Military Experience as a Critique of Modern Culture, and Alistair Macleod's "The Closing Down of Summer"
The Manifesto:
Scott Beauchamp, Did You Kill Anyone? Reunderstanding My Military Experience as a Critique of Modern Culture
Read an excerpt: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/
Episode 34: Fratelli Tutti and Fairview
A special live episode of Manifesto! A Podcast courtesy of Fairfield University's Inspired Writers Series. Jake and Phil are joined by Vinson Cunningham, a theater critic and staff writer at the New Yorker, to discuss Pope Francis' Fratelli Tutti and Jackie Sibblies Drury's Fairview.
The Manifesto:
Pope Francis, Fratelli Tutti
http://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/docume
Episode 33: The Dream of Meritocracy Produces Monsters
Phil is joined by Eugene McCarraher, Professor of the Humanities and History at Villanova University, to discuss his article "A Providentialism Without God: The Case Against Meritocracy" as well as Goya's "The Dream of Reason Produces Monsters"
The Manifesto:
Eugene McCarraher, "A Providentialism Without God: The Case Against Meritocracy"
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/providential
Episode 32: Repressive Tolerance and The Judgement
Jake and Phil are joined by Geoff Shullenberg of Outsider Theory to discuss Herbert Marcuse's "Repressive Tolerance" and Franz Kafka's "The Judgement".
The Manifesto:
Herbert Marcuse, "Repressive Tolerance"
https://www.marcuse.org/herbert/publications/1960s/1965-repressive-tolerance-fulltext.html
The Art:
Franz Kafka, "The Judgement"
https://www.kafka-online.info/-the-judgement.html
Episode 31: Everything is Broken
Jake and Phil are joined by Alana Newhouse to discuss her essay “Everything Is Broken” and the Ani DiFranco live album “Living in Clip.”
The Manifesto:
Alana Newhouse, Everything is Broken
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/everything-is-broken
The Art:
Ani DiFranco, Living in Clip
https://anidifranco.bandcamp.com/album/living-in-clip
Works Mentioned:
Eugene McCarraher
Episode 30: King Lear or Endgame or Psalm
Jake and Phil discuss Jan Kott's "King Lear or Endgame" and George Oppen's "Psalm."
The Manifesto:
Jan Kott, "King Lear or Endgame"
https://t.co/L9FRGoRD3L?amp=1
The Art:
George Oppen's "Psalm"
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/29449/psalm-56d212ff620c5
Episode 29: What Were We Thinking
Jake and Phil are joined by Carlos Lozada to discuss his new book, What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era, and the chapter "Decent People" from Garth Greenwell's Cleanness.
The Manifesto:
Carlos Lozada, What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/What-Were-We-Thinking/Carlos-Lozada/97819821456
Episode 28: They Will Eat the CIA Men First
This week Jake and Phil are joined by special guest Jesse Walker of Reason Magazine to discuss William S. Burroughs The Revised Boy Scout Manual and Charles Ridley's short anti-Nazi propaganda film, Schichlegruber Doing the Lambeth Walk (assisted by the Gestapo 'Hep-Cats')
The Manifesto: William S. Burroughs, The Revised Boy Scout Manual
https://ohiostatepress.org/boo
Episode 27: The Owl of Minerva Trots at Dusk
Phil and Jake are joined by Ian Marcus Corbin to discuss Joseph Conrad's Preface and Saul Bellow's "Mosby's Memoirs"
The Manifesto:
Conrad, The Preface
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/17731/17731-h/17731-h.htm#link2H_PREF
The Art:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1968/07/20/mosbys-memoirs
Episode 26: On Pain and on Fallujah Revisited
Jake and Phil are joined by Elliot Ackerman to discuss Ernst Junger’s 1934 essay On Pain, alongside Elliot’s A Battle in Fallujah, Revisited, an excerpt of his memoir, Places and Names.
The Manifesto
Ernst Junger, On Pain
https://www.amazon.com/Pain-Ernst-J%C3%BCnger/dp/0914386409
The Art
Elliot Ackerman, A Battle in Fallujah, Revisted
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/25/opinion/memori
Episode 25: The Plague
Jake and Phil are joined by Paul Berman to discuss The Plague, by Albert Camus.
The Manifesto:
Albert Camus, The Plague (the second half of Part II)
The Art:
Albert Camus, The Plague (the second half of Part II)
Works Discussed
Paul Berman, "Modern Times"
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/paul-berman-modern-times-1
Paul Berman, Terror and Liberalism
https://wwnorton.
Episode 24: Vietnam Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry
Jake and Phil are joined by novelist, essayist, and Penthouse Magazine national security columnist Matt Gallagher to discuss Gustav Hasford’s June 1987 article in Penthouse Magazine, Vietnam Means Never Having to Say Your Sorry. Due to coronavirus-related time constraints (we all have children who need minding), we are departing from our usual format and will just be discussing the manife
Episode 23: Lord Jim and the Absurd
The Art:
Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5658/5658-h/5658-h.htm
Other works discussed:
Thomas Nagel, The Absurd
https://philosophy.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/The%20Absurd%20-%20Thomas%20Nagel.pdf
Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan, The I That Tells Itself: A Bakhtinian Perspective on Narrative Identity
https://www.jstor.org/stable/30219268
The Sacred and Profane Love
Episode 22: Reluctant Prophets
Jake and Phil are joined by novelist Daniel Torday to discuss Robert Alter's “A Literary Approach to the Bible,” alongside The Book of Jonah.
The Manifesto:
Robert Alter, “A Literary Approach to the Bible,” from The Art of Biblical Narrative
https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/robert-alter/the-art-of-biblical-narrative/9780465022557/
The Art:
The Book of Jonah
https://www.biblegateway.
Episode 21: Class War and Auden
Phil is out today, so Jake talks with Michael Lind about his book, The New Class War, as well as Auden's The Fall of Rome
Manifesto:
Michael Lind, The New Class War
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/607661/the-new-class-war-by-michael-lind/
Art:
Auden, The Fall of Rome
https://poets.org/poem/fall-rome
Works mentioned:
Dustin Guastella, White collar populism
https://www.jacobin
Episode 20: The Conversation
Episode 19: Stuckists and Bebop
Jake and Phil are joined by Alex Brook Lynn to discuss the Stuckists’ Manifesto and Julio Cortázar’s The Pursuer
Manifesto:
The Stuckists Manifesto
http://www.stuckism.com/stuckistmanifesto.html#manifest
Art:
Julio Cortázar, The Pursuer
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/32198/blow-up-by-julio-cortazar/
References:
Jakes’s sartorial splendor
https://www.instagram.com/p/B1otkYal
Episode 18: Omni-Americans and Unlearning Race
Jake and Phil are joined by Thomas Chatterton Williams to discuss Albert Murray’s The Omni-Americans and Thomas’ new memoir, Self-Portrait in Black and White
Manifesto:
Albert Murray, The Omni-Americans
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/543160/the-omni-americans-by-albert-murray--with-a-foreword-by-henry-louis-gates-jr/
Art:
Thomas Chatterton Williams, Self-Portrait in Black and
Episode 17: The Unabomber and OK Computer
Jake and Phil talk with Jake Hanrahan of Popular Front (https://www.popularfront.co/) about Ted Kaczynski’s Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and It’s Future and Radiohead’s OK Computer.
The Manifesto:
Ted Kaczynski, “Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and It’s Future”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/manifesto.text.htm
The Art:
Radiohead,
Episode 16: Walcott's New Adam and Gallant's Latehomecoming
Jake and Phil are joined by essayist and fiction-writer Victoria Brown of Rollins College to discuss Derek Walcott’s The Muse of History alongside Mavis Gallant’s The Latehomecomer
The Manifesto:
Derek Walcott, The Muse of History
http://www.worldcat.org/title/what-the-twilight-says-essays/oclc/38976188&referer=brief_results
The Art:
Mavis Gallant, “The Latehomecomer”
https://www.
Episode 15: Dadism and Public Enemy
Jake and Phil discuss Hugo Ball's 1916 Dada Manifesto, as well as Public Enemy's 1988 album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.
The Manifesto:
Hugo Ball, Dada Manifesto
https://t.co/ZpW3qN32KO
The Art:
Public Enemy, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Works Referenced:
Photo of Hugo Ball in his costume at the Cabaret Voltaire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_B
Episode 14: New Conservative Manifestos and My Father Left Me Ireland
A new episode of Manifesto! A Podcast with special guest Michael Brendan Dougherty
Jake, Phil and Michael discuss three new conservative manifestos and Michael’s memoir, My Father Left Me Ireland.
The Manifestos:
First Things, Against the Dead Consensus https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/03/against-the-dead-consensus
Gladden Pappin, Toward a Party of the State https://americ
Episode 13: Personism and Ellen West
Jake and Phil discuss America's greatest poets named Frank, with Frank O’Hara’s "Personism Manifesto" and Frank Bidart’s “Ellen West”
Frank O’Hara, “Personism”
http://opencourses.uoa.gr/modules/document/file.php/ENL9/Instructional%20Package/Texts//Readings/Week%203%3A%20Pop%20art%3A%20breaking%20down%20the%20boundaries%20between%20high%20and%20low/Frank%20O%27Hara%20Personism-2.pdf
Reub
Episode 12: Accelerationism and Big Sex Object Mirrorfaces
Jake and Phil discuss several accelerationist manifestos along with the video American Reflexxx, by Alli Coates and Signe Pierce.
Works referenced:
Nick Land, A Quick and Dirty Introduction to Accelerationism
https://jacobitemag.com/2017/05/25/a-quick-and-dirty-introduction-to-accelerationism/
Joseph Lawrence, “A Fable”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/01/25/a-fable-poems-lawr
Episode 11: The Modern Essay and the Decline of Civilization
Park MacDougald joins Phil and Jake to discuss Virginia Woolf’s “The Modern Essay” and VS Naipaul’s “Jacques Soustelle and the Decline of the West.”
Works referenced:
Virginia Woolf, “The Modern Essay” “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown”
https://www.thoughtco.com/the-modern-essay-by-virginia-woolf-1690207
http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/MrBennettAndMrsBrown.pdf
Max Beerbohm, “A Relic,” “Laught
Recommended
Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
The Theory of Psychoanalysis - Carl Jung
A Life Engineered
پادکست بهزاد بلور | Behzad Bolour's Podcast
The Rabbit Hole: Conspiracy Theories
The Swerve Podcast: Obscure Topics | Conspiracy Theories
The Bread and Banter Podcast
The Conspiracy Podcast
Cult of Conspiracy
Dispatches from Reality
The Conspiracy Files
