Manifesto!

Episode 33: The Dream of Meritocracy Produces Monsters

April 13th, 2021  |  1 hr 29 mins

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"

Episode 32: Repressive Tolerance and The Judgement

March 16th, 2021  |  2 hrs 7 mins

Jake and Phil are joined by Geoff Shullenberg of Outsider Theory to discuss Herbert Marcuse's "Repressive Tolerance" and Franz Kafka's "The Judgement".

Episode 31: Everything is Broken

February 12th, 2021  |  1 hr 53 mins

Jake and Phil are joined by Alana Newhouse to discuss her essay “Everything Is Broken” and the Ani DiFranco live album “Living in Clip.”

Episode 30: King Lear or Endgame or Psalm

January 4th, 2021  |  1 hr 14 mins

Jake and Phil discuss Jan Kott's "King Lear or Endgame" and George Oppen's "Psalm."

Episode 29: What Were We Thinking

December 3rd, 2020  |  2 hrs 2 mins

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.

Episode 28: They Will Eat the CIA Men First

September 29th, 2020  |  1 hr 40 mins

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/books/titles/9780814254899.html

The Art: Charles Ridley, 1941, Schichlegruber Doing the Lambeth Walk (assisted by the Gestapo 'Hep-Cats')  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYdmk3GP3iM

Episode 27: The Owl of Minerva Trots at Dusk

August 13th, 2020  |  2 hrs 1 min

Phil and Jake are joined by Ian Marcus Corbin to discuss Joseph Conrad's Preface and Saul Bellow's "Mosby's Memoirs"

Episode 26: On Pain and on Fallujah Revisited

July 6th, 2020  |  1 hr 32 mins

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.

Episode 25: The Plague

June 6th, 2020  |  1 hr 40 mins

Jake and Phil are joined by Paul Berman to discuss The Plague, by Albert Camus

Episode 24: Vietnam Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry

April 20th, 2020  |  55 mins 59 secs

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 manifesto.

The Manifesto:
Gustaf Hasford, Vietnam Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry
http://gustavhasford.blogspot.com/2013/01/vietnam-means-never-having-to-say-youre.html

The Art:
Rambo, I guess?

Episode 23: Lord Jim and the Absurd

April 4th, 2020  |  1 hr 18 mins

A special crossover episode with the Sacred and Unknown Love Podcast. Jennifer Frey and Phil Klay discuss Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim, narrative identity and the absurd.

Episode 22: Reluctant Prophets

March 4th, 2020  |  1 hr 29 mins

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.

Episode 21: Class War and Auden

February 17th, 2020  |  1 hr 33 mins

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

Episode 20: The Conversation

January 27th, 2020  |  1 hr 14 mins

Jake and Phil answer questions from you, our listeners.

Episode 19: Stuckists and Bebop

December 15th, 2019  |  1 hr 43 mins

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/

Episode 18: Omni-Americans and Unlearning Race

October 16th, 2019  |  2 hrs 33 mins

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 White
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/617884/self-portrait-in-black-and-white-by-thomas-chatterton-williams/9780393608861