Manifesto!
Episode Archive
Episode Archive
69 episodes of Manifesto! since the first episode, which aired on April 28th, 2018.
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Episode 69: Should We Bring Children Into Existence?
July 25th, 2024 | 2 hrs 4 mins
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.
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Episode 68: The Serious Artist
June 28th, 2024 | 1 hr 48 mins
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
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Episode 67: Wallace Stegner's Crossing to Safety
May 30th, 2024 | 59 mins 17 secs
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.
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Episode 66: Hobbits, Goblins and the Very Adult World of Fairy-Stories
April 29th, 2024 | 1 hr 23 mins
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."
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Episode 65: Orwell and Ukraine
March 30th, 2024 | 1 hr 11 mins
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"
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Episode 64: Power of the Powerless and the Velvet Underground
February 27th, 2024 | 1 hr 22 mins
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
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Episode 63: How Money Culture Hurts the American Family and Girls
January 26th, 2024 | 1 hr 12 mins
Jake and Phil discuss "How Money Culture Hurts the American Family," by Ian Marcus Corbin, and episode seven of the first season of Girls
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Episode 62: Last Men and Women: George Scialabba and the Challenge of Modernity
December 7th, 2023 | 1 hr 20 mins
Jake and Phil are joined live at Fairfield University by the great critic and essayist George Scialabba to discuss Last Men and Women
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Episode 61: Red Music and Mal Waldron
November 27th, 2023 | 1 hr 8 mins
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"
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Episode 60: The Palestinian People and the Western Observer
October 30th, 2023 | 1 hr 1 min
Phil talks with poet and translator Philip Metres about the current conflict, his poem "Remorse for Temperate Speech," as well as his book "Returning to Jaffa."
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Episode 59: Israel and Hamas
October 28th, 2023 | 1 hr 53 mins
Phil asks Jake about the recent conflict in Israel, and they take listener questions.
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Episode 58: The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu
September 27th, 2023 | 31 mins 24 secs
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.
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Episode 57: Some Lying and Some BS
September 10th, 2023 | 1 hr 34 mins
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"
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Episode 56: The Secular Saint
August 9th, 2023 | 1 hr 35 mins
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.
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Episode 55: The Great Mating Debate
July 12th, 2023 | 1 hr 18 mins
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.
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Episode 54: Nirvana and The Trials of the Young
June 13th, 2023 | 1 hr 20 mins
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."