Manifesto!
A Podcast
About the show
Your regular visit to the archives of vanity, where men and women who stopped making myths turned to issuing commandments.
Your guides for this journey are the writers Phil Klay and Jacob Siegel, along with their trusty engineer, Jacqui Rigazio
May you continue to be a person.
Manifesto! Is now sponsored by Fairfield University, a Jesuit University in Fairfield Connecticut. Fairfield’s mission is to develop the creative intellectual potential of students and to foster in them ethical and religious values and a sense of social responsibility. Phil also teaches at Fairfield, in both their undergraduate English department and in their Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program. We’re very pleased to be associated with Fairfield, and thank them for their sponsorship.
Episodes
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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."
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Episode 53: Poe's Law and Philip K. Dick's Faith of Our Fathers
May 16th, 2023 | 1 hr 36 mins
Jake and Phil are joined by Gurwinder Bhogal to discuss Poe's Law and Philip K. Dick's Faith of Our Fathers
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Episode 52: True Believers and the Case of the Writer Turned Congressman
April 13th, 2023 | 1 hr 51 mins
Jake and Phil are joined by former Michigan Congressman Peter Meijer to discuss longshoreman philosopher Eric Hoffer’s 1951 book, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, and the poem “On Reading Crowds and Power,” by Geoffrey Hill.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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"
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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."
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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
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Episode 44: We're All Stars Now In the Dope Show
June 17th, 2022 | 1 hr 38 mins