Patriotism and the Unknown Soldier

About this Episode

Jake and Phil discuss Alasdair MacIntyre's "Is Patriotism a Virtue?" and the story of the November 11, 1921 burial of the Unknown Soldier, as told by Jonathan Ebel in his book GI Messiahs

Works referred to in this episode:

Alasdair MacIntyre, “Is Patriotism A Virtue”
https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/bitstream/handle/1808/12398/Is%20Patriotism%20a%20Virtue-1984.pdf

Abu Bakr ibn Tufayl, Hayy ibn Yaqzan
http://www.marcresource.org/ibn-tufayls-hayy-ibn-yaqzan/

Peter Singer, “The Drowning Child and the Expanding Circle”
https://www.utilitarian.net/singer/by/199704--.htm

Bernard Williams, “A Critique of Utilitarianism”
http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/political-philosophy/utilitarianism-and-against?format=PB&isbn=9780521098229

Ralph Ellison “The Little Man at Chehaw Station”
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/46137/the-collected-essays-of-ralph-ellison-by-ralph-ellison/9780812968262/

Vasily Grossman, A Writer at War
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/72422/a-writer-at-war-by-vasily-grossman-edited-and-translated-by-antony-beevor-and-luba-vinogradova/9780307275332/

John Gray, Two Faces of Liberalism
https://thenewpress.com/books/two-faces-of-liberalism

Ta-Nehesi Coates, I’m Not Black, I’m Kanye
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/im-not-black-im-kanye/559763/

George Orwell, “Notes on Nationalism”
http://orwell.ru/library/essays/nationalism/english/e_nat

Gregory Pardlo, Air Traffic
http://www.pardlo.net/books

Aris Roussinos
https://www.vice.com/en_us/contributor/aris-roussinos

Valeria Luiselli, Difficult Forgiveness
https://www.guernicamag.com/difficult-forgiveness/

Jonathan Ebel, GI Messiahs
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300176704/gi-messiahs

Jesus Christ and the American Soldier 2nd version Bumper Sticker
https://www.zazzle.com/jesus_christ_and_the_american_soldier_2nd_version_bumper_sticker-128506846244291909

Peter Lucier, Not Your Messiah
https://therevealer.org/not-your-messiah/

Anatole Broyard, Kafka Was the Rage
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/20086/kafka-was-the-rage-by-anatole-broyard/9780679781264/

Audio clips:

Independence Day (1996)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t1IK_9apWs

Charles Olson, Maximus to Gloucester, Letter 27 [withheld]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAYxpSjkyAg

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmW0SF5gYEk