Jacob Siegel
Co-Host of Manifesto!
The knocker-off of tall hats.
Jacob Siegel has hosted 77 Episodes.
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Episode 78: Reflections on the Atom Bomb
April 30th, 2025 | 1 hr 5 mins
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.
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Episode 77: Fascist Apologetics and the Memoirs of an Anti-Semite
March 27th, 2025 | 1 hr 37 mins
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
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Episode 76: Against Poets
February 27th, 2025 | 1 hr 10 mins
Phil and Jake discuss Witold Gombrowicz's "Against Poets" and Czeslaw Milosz's "Ars Poetica?"
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Episode 75: American Honor and the Iliad
January 25th, 2025 | 1 hr 12 mins
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"
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Episode 74: Christmas Poetry and the Pogues
December 21st, 2024 | 53 mins
Jake and Phil discuss Thomas Hardy’s The Oxen, TS Eliot’s Journey of the Magi, and The Pogues Fairytale of New York
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Episode 73: Is America Ready for a Religious Revival?
November 26th, 2024 | 1 hr 30 mins
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"
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Episode 72: Revolutionary Art and Coat-Snatching Ghosts
October 28th, 2024 | 1 hr 13 mins
Jake and Phil discuss Leon Trotsky's "Communist Policy Toward Art" and Gogol's "The Overcoat"
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Episode 71: Politics and Merciless Nature
September 27th, 2024 | 49 mins 14 secs
Phil and Jake discuss Joan Didion's "Politics in the New Normal America" and Robinson Jeffers "Fire on the Hills"
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Episode 70: Punk and Metal
August 30th, 2024 | 1 hr 31 mins
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
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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