Jacob Siegel

Episode 51: A Public Address, A Colloquium, or Maybe Just a Q&A

March 21st, 2023  |  1 hr 9 mins

Jake and Phil answer questions from our listeners.

Episode 50: El Greco, Picasso, and The Pleasures of Ignorance

February 22nd, 2023  |  1 hr 8 mins

Jake and Phil discuss Aldous Huxley's "Meditation on El Greco", and Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.

Episode 49: Angry Popes and Architecture

January 26th, 2023  |  1 hr 33 mins

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 La Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona, Spain.

Episode 48: The Ultimate Revolution

November 22nd, 2022  |  1 hr 56 mins

Jake and Phil are joined by Becca Rothfeld to discuss Shulamith Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex and Sheila Heti's That Longing for a Holy Completeness (from her novel MOTHERHOOD)

Episode 47: The Democracy Engineering Complex

October 18th, 2022  |  58 mins 27 secs

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"

Episode 46: Sunday Morning and God's Grandeur

September 19th, 2022  |  1 hr 12 mins

To celebrate Phil's birthday, Jake joins Phil to discuss Wallace Stevens' "Sunday Morning" and Gerard Manley Hopkins' "God's Grandeur."

Episode 45: Spielberg and Roxy Music

July 21st, 2022  |  1 hr 58 mins

Jake and Phil are joined by culture critic Armond White to discuss Make Spielberg Great Again and Roxy Music's 1979 album Manifesto

Episode 44: We're All Stars Now In the Dope Show

June 17th, 2022  |  1 hr 38 mins

Episode 43: Tradition and the Individual Talent

May 28th, 2022  |  1 hr 17 mins

Jake and Phil discuss T.S. Eliot's "Tradition and the Individual Talent", and James Joyce's "A Mother"

Episode 42: The Transmogrifications of Gary Leib

April 11th, 2022  |  1 hr 9 mins

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

Episode 41: To Be Incarnational

March 5th, 2022  |  1 hr 45 mins

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"

Episode 40: Flannery O'Connor versus Andre Dubus II

February 4th, 2022  |  1 hr 28 mins

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

Episode 39: What Jazz Is and Isn't

January 6th, 2022  |  1 hr 32 mins

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.

Episode 38: My Quarrel with Authentic Reactionaries

November 10th, 2021  |  1 hr 44 mins

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”

Episode 37: Humane War

October 7th, 2021  |  1 hr 5 mins

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

Episode 36: The Simple Art of Murder

September 15th, 2021  |  1 hr 12 mins

Jake and Phil discuss Raymond Chandler's The Simple Art of Murder, alongside Ross MacDonald's novel Black Money.