Phil Klay

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

Episode 17: The Unabomber and OK Computer

September 5th, 2019  |  1 hr 33 mins

Jake and Phil talk with Jake Hanrahan of Popular Front (https://www.popularfront.co/) about Ted Kaczynski’s Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and It’s Future and Radiohead’s OK Computer.

Episode 16: Walcott's New Adam and Gallant's Latehomecoming

August 1st, 2019  |  1 hr 47 mins

Jake and Phil are joined by essayist and fiction-writer Victoria Brown of Rollins College to discuss Derek Walcott’s The Muse of History alongside Mavis Gallant’s The Latehomecomer

Episode 15: Dadism and Public Enemy

July 3rd, 2019  |  1 hr 41 mins

Jake and Phil discuss Hugo Ball's 1916 Dada Manifesto, as well as Public Enemy's 1988 album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.

Episode 14: New Conservative Manifestos and My Father Left Me Ireland

June 4th, 2019  |  2 hrs 30 mins

A new episode of Manifesto! A Podcast with special guest Michael Brendan Dougherty
Jake, Phil and Michael discuss three new conservative manifestos and Michael’s memoir, My Father Left Me Ireland.

The Manifestos:
First Things, Against the Dead Consensus https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/03/against-the-dead-consensus
Gladden Pappin, Toward a Party of the State https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/02/toward-a-party-of-the-state/
Daniel McCarthy, A New Conservative Agenda https://www.firstthings.com/article/2019/03/a-new-conservative-agenda

The Art:
Michael Brendan Dougherty, My Father Left Me Ireland https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/591812/my-father-left-me-ireland-by-michael-brendan-dougherty/9780525538653/

Episode 13: Personism and Ellen West

May 6th, 2019  |  1 hr 28 mins

Jake and Phil discuss America's greatest poets named Frank, with Frank O’Hara’s "Personism Manifesto" and Frank Bidart’s “Ellen West”

Episode 12: Accelerationism and Big Sex Object Mirrorfaces

February 28th, 2019  |  1 hr 33 mins

Jake and Phil discuss several accelerationist manifestos along with the video American Reflexxx, by Alli Coates and Signe Pierce.

Episode 11: The Modern Essay and the Decline of Civilization

January 5th, 2019  |  1 hr 48 mins

Park MacDougald joins Phil and Jake to discuss Virginia Woolf’s “The Modern Essay” and VS Naipaul’s “Jacques Soustelle and the Decline of the West.”