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 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.htmlThe Art:
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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.
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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.
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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
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Episode 20: The Conversation
January 27th, 2020 | 1 hr 14 mins
Jake and Phil answer questions from you, our listeners.
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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#manifestArt:
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.
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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
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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.
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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-agendaThe 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”
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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.
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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.”
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Episode 10: Violence according to Hannah Arendt and Frank Miller
December 6th, 2018 | 1 hr 23 mins
Jake and Phil discuss Hannah Arendt's "Reflections on Violence" and Frank Miller's "The Dark Knight Returns."
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Episode 9: The Oulipo and the Naked City
November 8th, 2018 | 1 hr 28 mins
Jake and Phil are joined by Olivia Garard (@teaandtactics) of The Strategy Bridge (https://thestrategybridge.org/editorial-team/2016/8/16/olivia-a-garard) to discuss Oulipo member Anne Garréta's "On Bookselves" and Guy Debord’s “The Naked City”