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Your regular visit to the archives of vanity, where men who had 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, the indefatigable Adam Chimera. May you continue to be a person.

Manifesto! A Podcast


    • May 27, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
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    • 1h 28m AVG DURATION
    • 79 EPISODES

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    The Manifesto! podcast is a refreshing and enlightening addition to the world of intellectual and informative media. Unlike many other podcasts in this genre, The Manifesto! avoids being overly nihilistic, depressing, or politically extremist. Hosted by Jake Siegel and Phil Klay, this podcast offers engaging conversations that are both thought-provoking and entertaining. As a listener who has been working my way through the episodes for about two months now, I can confidently say that there is no other podcast I would rather listen to. The breadth, depth, intelligence, integrity, insight, and rugged humor of these conversations is unmatched. I have even subscribed to the Patreon for access to bonus episodes, as it is well worth the cost of admission.

    One of the best aspects of The Manifesto! podcast is the wide range of topics covered. From discussions on various 19th and 20th century works of art and literature to deep dives into important philosophical ideas, Siegel and Klay's conversations are always insightful and engaging. They bring a unique perspective to each topic and their analysis is both nuanced and thought-provoking. Furthermore, they do an excellent job contextualizing the material into a broader philosophical and cultural context, making each episode interesting even if you are not familiar with the specific material being discussed.

    Another standout aspect of this podcast is the hosts themselves. Listening to Jake and Phil talk feels like having a conversation over coffee with two of the most interesting people in your college class after attending a powerful lecture together. They are rough and tough but also compassionate, kind, and funny as well. Their chemistry as hosts shines through in every episode. Additionally, their qualifications as writers and readers are evident in their thoughtful opinions and deep understanding of the texts they discuss.

    While it's difficult to find any major flaws with The Manifesto! podcast, one potential downside could be that it may require more active engagement from listeners compared to other podcasts. The topics covered are weighty and complex, which means that in order to fully follow the conversation, listeners may need to engage with the material and actively think through the ideas being presented. However, for those who enjoy deep thinking and intellectual intensity, this podcast is a perfect fit.

    In conclusion, The Manifesto! podcast is a true gem in the realm of intellectual podcasts. It offers a unique blend of intellectual intensity and high stakes without being overly nihilistic or politically extremist. The conversations between Jake Siegel and Phil Klay are both enlightening and entertaining, making each episode thoroughly enjoyable. Whether you are a deep thinker or simply looking to expand your knowledge and understanding of art, philosophy, and literature, this podcast is definitely worth a listen.



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    Episode 79: Kitsch, Pop, and Democratic Art

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2025 80:55


    Jake and Phil discuss Clement Greenberg's 1939 "Kitsch and the Avant-Garde" alongside Taylor Swift's "I Knew You Were Trouble" and Leonard Cohen's "Chelsea Hotel No. 2" The Manifesto: Clement Greenberg, "Avant-Garde and Kitsch" https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1606923282/slcschoolsorg/wumlyaskvhhzawsvbbzc/Avant-GardeandKitsch.pdf The Art: Taylor Swift, "I Knew You Were Trouble" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNoKguSdy4Y Leonard Cohen, "Chelsea Hotel No. 2" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWZo7UmCbBc

    Episode 78: Reflections on the Atom Bomb

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2025 65:01


    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. The Manifesto: Teilhard de Chardin - "Some Reflections on the Spiritual Repercussions of the Atom Bomb" https://www.religion-online.org/book-chapter/chapter-8-some-reflections-on-the-spiritual-repercussions-of-the-atom-bomb/ The Art: Charles Mingus - "Oh Lord Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb on Me" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaeVLd4G1Zg

    Episode 77: Fascist Apologetics and the Memoirs of an Anti-Semite

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2025 97:19


    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 The Manifesto: Thomas Dilworth, "David Jones and Fascism" https://www.jstor.org/stable/3831437 The Art: Gregor von Rezzori, "Troth," from his Memoirs of an Anti-Semite https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1969/04/26/memoirs-of-an-anti-semite

    Episode 76: Against Poets

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2025 70:13


    Phil and Jake discuss Witold Gombrowicz's "Against Poets" and Czeslaw Milosz's "Ars Poetica?" The Manifesto: Witold Gombrowicz, "Against Poets" https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.12987/9780300183399-006/html?lang=en&srsltid=AfmBOopUFE9LX61sfmOAYszduQw78uOlvfHGgFOUPvi-0afjm9eQ2nhI The Art: Czeslaw Milosz, "Ars Poetica?" https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49455/ars-poetica-56d22b8f31558

    Episode 75: American Honor and the Iliad

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 25, 2025 72:40


    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" The Manifesto: Phil Klay, "Trump, Hegseth, and the Honor of the American Military" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/opinion/trump-hegseth-military-morality.html The Art: Homer, "Embassy to Achilles" https://www.penguinbookshop.com/book/9780140275360

    Episode 74: Christmas Poetry and the Pogues

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2024 53:00


    Jake and Phil discuss Thomas Hardy's The Oxen, TS Eliot's Journey of the Magi, and The Pogues Fairytale of New York Thomas Hardy - The Oxen https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53215/the-oxen-56d232503c32d TS Eliot - Journey of the Magi https://poetryarchive.org/poem/journey-magi/ The Pogues - Fairytale of New York https://youtu.be/j9jbdgZidu8?si=AWYk4ya5bFPUyFtd

    Episode 73: Is America Ready for a Religious Revival?

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2024 90:38


    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" The Manifesto: Ross Douthat, "Is the World Ready for a Religious Comeback" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/19/opinion/religion-atheism-books.html The Art: Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss https://theamericanscholar.org/my-bright-abyss/ Pre-order Ross' book https://www.zondervan.com/9780310367604/believe/

    Episode 72: Revolutionary Art and Coat-Snatching Ghosts

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2024 73:59


    Jake and Phil discuss Leon Trotsky's "Communist Policy Toward Art" and Gogol's "The Overcoat" The Manifesto: Leon Trotsky - "Communist Policy Toward Art" https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1924/lit_revo/ch07.htm The Art Gogol - "The Overcoat" https://www.fountainheadpress.com/expandingthearc/assets/gogolovercoat.pdf

    Episode 71: Untitled Episode

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2024 49:14


    Phil and Jake discuss Joan Didion's "Politics in the New Normal America" and Robinson Jeffers "Fire on the Hills" The Manifesto: Joan Didion, Politics in the New Normal America https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2004/10/21/politics-in-the-new-normal-america/ The Art: Robinson Jeffers, Fire on the Hills https://ronnowpoetry.com/contents/jeffers/FireontheHills.html

    Episode 70: Punk and Metal

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2024 91:22


    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 The Manifestos: Kathleen Hanna, The Riot Grrrl Manifesto https://actipedia.org/project/riot-grrrl-manifesto Steve Albini, The Problem with Music https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-problem-with-music The Art: Penelope Spheeris - The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DZu6T8aDCA Nate's podcast: https://thememorypalace.us/ Nate's book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/706914/the-memory-palace-by-nate-dimeo/

    Episode 69: Should We Bring Children Into Existence?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2024 124:28


    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. The Manifesto: David Benatar - "Why It Is Better Never to Come into Existence" https://www.jstor.org/stable/20009904 The Art: Paul Schrader - First Reformed https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6053438/ Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman - What Are Children For? On Ambivalence and Choice https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250276131/whatarechildrenfor For more of Anastasia's work https://www.anastasiaberg.com/ Rachel's work at The Point https://thepointmag.com/author/rwiseman/

    Episode 68: The Serious Artist

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2024 108:37


    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 The Manifesto: Ezra Pound, The Serious Artist https://archive.org/details/literaryessaysof00poun/page/n5/mode/2up The Art: Eliot Weinberger, The Life of Tu Fu https://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-life-of-tu-fu/ For more of Alice's writing: https://www.alicegribbin.com/?utmsource=substack&utmmedium=web&utmcampaign=substackprofile

    Episode 67: Wallace Stegner's Crossing to Safety

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2024 59:17


    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.

    Episode 66: Hobbits, Goblins and the Very Adult World of Fairy-Stories

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2024 83:11


    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." The manifesto: https://ieas-szeged.hu/downtherabbithole/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Tolkien-On-Fairy-Stories.pdf The Art: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44996/goblin-market Tara's new novel, Here In Avalon: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Here-in-Avalon/Tara-Isabella-Burton/9781982170097

    Episode 65: Orwell and Ukraine

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2024 71:20


    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" The Manifesto: George Orwell, "Looking Back on the Spanish War" https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/looking-back-on-the-spanish-war/ The Art: Benjamin Busch, "Nine Dialogues: Conflict in Context" https://www.wlajournal.com/copy-of-busch-gallery Ben's hair: https://lthumb.lisimg.com/939/13342939.jpg?width=280&sharpen=true

    Episode 64: Power of the Powerless and the Velvet Underground

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2024 82:03


    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 The Manifesto: https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/wp-content/uploads/1979/01/the-power-of-the-powerless.pdf The Art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJy0LP8iYPg&list=PLaVHibd49QFIsKywss9Jh0rati5skWEYD Jared's essay, The Metaphysician-in-Chief, in Liberties https://libertiesjournal.com/articles/the-metaphysician-in-chief/

    Episode 63: How Money Culture Hurts the American Family and Girls

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2024 72:03


    Jake and Phil discuss "How Money Culture Hurts the American Family," by Ian Marcus Corbin, and episode seven of the first season of Girls The Manifesto: Ian Marcus Corbin, "How Money Culture Hurts the American Family" https://www.capita.org/money-culture Girls, Welcome to Bushwick a.k.a. The Crackcident https://www.hbo.com/girls/season-1/7-welcome-to-bushwick-a-k-a-the-crackcident

    Episode 62: Last Men and Women: George Scialabba and the Challenge of Modernity

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2023 80:54


    Jake and Phil are joined live at Fairfield University by the great critic and essayist George Scialabba to discuss Last Men and Women At a time of war, impending ecological disaster, and partisan rage, our commitments to the modern, liberal order are being questioned like never before. Do we understand ourselves best as individuals or as members of a community? Must we renew our absolute commitment to political freedoms, or accept greater state control to deal with the dangers and allures of new technologies? Should the future be post-liberal, neo-liberal, or some other, perhaps more frightening and electrifying possibility? For the past forty-four years the critic George Scialabba has been engaging in arguments with both the critics and proponents of modernity, staking out a commitment to liberty and mass democracy even in light of powerful challenges. On December 4th at 4:30pm George Scialabba will join Phil Klay and Jacob Siegel for a live recording of Manifesto! A Podcast. The three will discuss the price we pay for modern liberalism, and George's commitment to it nonetheless (the essay “Last Men and Women,” originally for Commonweal Magazine and included in his latest book, Only A Voice, published by Verso Books, outlines the basics of his argument) https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/last-men-and-women George Scialabba is the quintessential critic's critic, an outrageously learned and subtle thinker whose stylish, witty and elegantly argued reviews have served as guides to the modern age for generations of writers and intellectuals. Christopher Hitchens, Norman Rush, James Wood, and Vivian Gornick have all declared themselves devotees—while Richard Rorty declared his essays “models of moral inquiry.” An award-winning essayist and critic, his writing has appeared in the Nation, Dissent, bookforum, Riritan, n+1, and the Boston Review among many others. He is a Contributing Editor at the Baffler and the author of six essay collections and a memoir, How to Be Depressed.

    Episode 61: Red Music and Mal Waldron

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2023 68:52


    Jake and Phil discuss Josef Skvorecky's "Red Music," an account of playing jazz under Nazism and Communism, alongside Mal Waldron's "Mal Waldron Plays Erik Satie" The Manifesto: Josef Skvorecky, "Red Music" https://harpers.org/archive/1986/03/red-music/ The Art: Mal Waldron, "Mal Waldron Plays Erik Satie" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juNNxsUXvQw

    Episode 60: The Palestinian People and the Western Observer

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2023 61:34


    Phil talks with poet and translator Philip Metres about the current conflict, the position of a Western observer in regards to what is happening in Gaza, his poem "Remorse for Temperate Speech," as well as his book "Returning to Jaffa." https://philipmetres.com

    Episode 59: Israel and Hamas

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2023 113:14


    Phil asks Jake about the recent conflict in Israel, and they take listener questions.

    Episode 58: The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2023 31:24


    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. https://archipelagobooks.org/book/the-enlightenment-of-katzuo-nakamatsu/

    Episode 57: Some Lying and Some BS

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2023 94:50


    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" The Manifesto: Walter Kirn, "The Bullshit" https://walterkirn.substack.com/p/the-bullshit The Art: Mark Twain's "My First Lie and How I Got Out of It" https://americanliterature.com/author/mark-twain/short-story/my-first-lie-and-how-i-got-out-of-it

    Episode 56: The Secular Saint

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2023 95:27


    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. The Manifesto: Michael Novak, The Secular Saint https://www.amazon.com/theology-radical-politics-Michael-Novak/dp/B0006BZ4H2 The Art: Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles, Epilogue https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/83039/the-elementary-particles-by-michel-houellebecq/

    Episode 55: The Great Mating Debate

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2023 78:22


    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. Becca Rothfeld is the nonfiction book critic at the Washington Post and an editor at the Point. BD McClay is an essayist and critic who has written for publications like Lapham's Quarterly, The New Yorker, and New York Times Magazine. Jon Baskin is Deputy Editor at Harper's and a founding editor of The Point. The Art: Norman Rush, Mating https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/158972/mating-by-norman-rush/ Article cited: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/29/style/mating-norman-rush.html

    Episode 54: Nirvana and The Trials of the Young

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2023 80:14


    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." The Manifesto: Mary Gaitskill, "The Trials of the Young " https://marygaitskill.substack.com/p/the-despair-of-the-young The Art: Nirvana, "Drain You" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJUpHxlJUNQ Nirvana, "Moist Vagina" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRT6sYzVN78

    Episode 53: Poe's Law and Philip K. Dick's Faith of Our Fathers

    Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2023 96:34


    Jake and Phil are joined by Gurwinder Bhogal to discuss Poe's Law and Philip K. Dick's Faith of Our Fathers The Manifesto: "Poe's Law" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law The Art: Philip K. Dick's "Faith of Our Fathers" https://genius.com/Philip-k-dick-faith-of-our-fathers-annotated Also discussed: Gurwinder Bhogal, "The Best Cure for Fake News is Fake News" https://rabbitholemag.com/the-best-cure-for-fake-news-is-fake-news/ Ryan Ruby, A Golden Age? https://www.vinduet.no/essayistikk/a-golden-age-ryan-ruby-on-literary-criticism-and-the-internet/

    Episode 52: True Believers and the Case of the Writer Turned Congressman

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2023 111:27


    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. The Manifesto (an edition with some very cool cover art): The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements https://archive.org/details/truebelieverthou0000hoff/mode/2up The Art: On Reading Crowds and Power https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/49285/on-reading-crowds-and-power

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2023 69:21


    Jake and Phil answer questions from our listeners.

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2023 68:00


    Jake and Phil discuss Aldous Huxley's "Meditation on El Greco", and Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. The Manifesto: Aldous Huxley - "Meditation on El Greco" https://cooperative-individualism.org/huxley-aldous_meditation-on-el-greco-pleasure-that-comes-from-ignorance.pdf The Art: Picasso - Les Demoiselles d'Avignon https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79766?sovreferrer=theme&themeid=5135

    Episode 49: Angry Popes and Architecture

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2023 93:33


    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 Antoni Gaudí's La Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona, Spain. The Manifesto: Pascendi Dominici Gregis, Pope Pius X https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-x/en/encyclicals/documents/hfp-xenc19070908pascendi-dominici-gregis.html Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família https://sagradafamilia.org/en/

    Episode 48: The Ultimate Revolution

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 22, 2022 116:10


    Jake and Phil are joined by Becca Rothfeld (https://www.beccarothfeld.com/) to discuss Shulamith Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex and Sheila Heti's That Longing for a Holy Completeness (from her novel MOTHERHOOD) Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex http://biopolitics.kom.uni.st/Shulamith%20Firestone/The%20Dialectic%20of%20Sex%20The%20Case%20for%20Feminist%20Revolution%20(139)/The%20Dialectic%20of%20Sex%20The%20Case%20for%20Feminis%20-%20Shulamith%20Firestone.pdf Sheila Heti, That Longing for a Holy Completeness https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/that-longing-for-a-holy-completeness/

    Episode 47: The Democracy Engineering Complex

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2022 58:27


    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" The Manifesto: Sam Kimbriel, What the Democracy Engineering Complex Misses https://wisdomofcrowds.live/the-democracy-engineering-complex/

    Episode 46: Sunday Morning and God's Grandeur

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2022 72:27


    Jake and Phil discuss Wallace Stevens' "Sunday Morning" and Gerard Manley Hopkins' "God's Grandeur." The Manifesto: Wallace Stevens' "Sunday Morning" https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/13261/sunday-morning The Art: Gerard Manley Hopkins' "God's Grandeur." https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44395/gods-grandeur Works referenced: Wallace Stevens, The Idea of Order at Key West https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43431/the-idea-of-order-at-key-west Wallace Stevens, Anecdote of the Jar https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/14575/anecdote-of-the-jar Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45236/thirteen-ways-of-looking-at-a-blackbird Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Windhover https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44402/the-windhover Gerard Manley Hopkins, No Worst https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44398/no-worst-there-is-none-pitched-past-pitch-of-grief Anne Carpenter, Theo-Poetics: Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Risk of Art and Being https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268023782/theo-poetics/

    Episode 45: Spielberg and Roxy Music

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2022 118:30


    Jake and Phil are joined by culture critic Armond White to discuss Make Spielberg Great Again and Roxy Music's 1979 album Manifesto The Manifesto: Make Spielberg Great Again (specifically focusing on the chapters "The Wailing Wall" and "Steven Spielberg's Obama"), Armond White https://www.amazon.com/Make-Spielberg-Great-Again-Chronicles/dp/0984215913 The Art: Roxy Music, Manifesto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjkVYOArUQM

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2022 98:49


    Jake and Phil are joined by James Poulos, author of Human Forever: The Digital Politics of Spiritual War, to discuss Jacques Ellul and Marilyn Manson. The Manifesto: Jacques Ellul, Propaganda - Chapter 5 (The Socio-Political Effects”), Part 3 (“Propaganda and Grouping), section “Effects on the Churches.” https://monoskop.org/images/4/44/EllulJacquesPropagandaTheFormationofMens_Attitudes.pdf The Art: Marilyn Manson, Mechanical Animals https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6ogdCG3tAWinzV1alDntKEi3uO9Mq5ES

    Episode 43: Tradition and the Individual Talent

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2022 77:59


    Jake and Phil discuss T.S. Eliot's "Tradition and the Individual Talent", and James Joyce's "A Mother" The Manifesto: T.S. Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent" https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69400/tradition-and-the-individual-talent The Art: James Joyce, "A Mother" http://www.online-literature.com/james_joyce/963/

    Episode 42: The Transmogrifications of Gary Leib

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2022 69:58


    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 The Manifesto: Peter Catapano, “I'm Going to Make a Fire”: The Transmogrifications of Gary Leib https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/im-going-to-make-a-fire-the-transmogrifications-of-gary-leib/ The Art: Gary Leib's animation for The Stone https://vimeo.com/148232540 Leib's animations for the Times https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/opinion/01leib_bio.html Other: Pre-order Peter's forthcoming book, Question Everything https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324091837 Pre-order Jess' forthcoming graphic novel, Invisible Wounds. https://jessruliffson.com/home.html

    Episode 41: To Be Incarnational

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2022 105:09


    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" The Manifesto: Tom Sleigh, To Be Incarnational https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/70066/to-be-incarnational The Art: Tom Sleigh, "In Which a Spider Weaves a Web on My Computer Screen" https://vimeo.com/669317283

    Episode 40: Flannery O'Connor versus Andre Dubus II

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2022 88:25


    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 The Manifesto: Flannery O'Connor, Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction https://bscc.instructure.com/courses/4608/files/434937/download?download_frd=1 Audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMrveIu0DdE The Art: Andre Dubus II, Killings https://www.uww.edu/documents/library/ersearch/er/mooreg/moore101/dubuskillings101moore.pdf

    Episode 39: What Jazz Is and Isn't

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2022 92:54


    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. The Manifesto: Wynton Marsalis - "What Jazz Is—and Isn't", https://wyntonmarsalis.org/news/entry/music-what-jazz-is-and-isnt The Art: Wynton Marsalis - J Mood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PerIfsVGl_0 Ethan Iverson's website: https://ethaniverson.com/ The track played of Ethan's in the middle of the podcast is The Eternal Verities, off his upcoming album Every Note is True https://store.bluenote.com/products/ethan-iverson-every-note-is-true#:~:text=Pianist%20and%20composer%20Ethan%20Iverson,and%20legendary%20drummer%20Jack%20DeJohnette.

    Episode 38: My Quarrel with Authentic Reactionaries

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2021 104:10


    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” The Manifesto: Nicolás Gómez Dávila‘s “The Authentic Reactionary” https://isi.org/modern-age/the-authentic-reactionary/ The Art: Chaim Grade's “My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner” https://mosaicmagazine.com/response/arts-culture/2020/12/my-quarrel-with-hersh-rasseyner/

    Episode 37: Humane War

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2021 65:42


    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 The Manifesto: Samuel Moyn - Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374173708/humane The Art: Kathe Kollwitz, The Survivors https://aestronauts.com/post/114048762630/kathe-kollwitz-the-survivors

    Episode 36: The Simple Art of Murder

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2021 72:26


    Jake and Phil discuss Raymond Chandler's The Simple Art of Murder, alongside Ross MacDonald's novel Black Money. The Manifesto: http://jacksharman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Raymond-Chandler-Simple-Art-of-Murder.pdf The Art: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/105230/black-money-by-ross-macdonald/

    Episode 35: Did You Kill Anyone?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2021 82:30


    Jake and Phil are joined by Scott Beauchamp to discuss his new book, Did You Kill Anyone? Reunderstanding My Military Experience as a Critique of Modern Culture, and Alistair Macleod's "The Closing Down of Summer" The Manifesto: Scott Beauchamp, Did You Kill Anyone? Reunderstanding My Military Experience as a Critique of Modern Culture Read an excerpt: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/did-you-kill-anyone The Art: Alistair Macleod, "The Closing Down of Summer" https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393341188

    Episode 34: Fratelli Tutti and Fairview

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2021 77:25


    A special live episode of Manifesto! A Podcast courtesy of Fairfield University's Inspired Writers Series. Jake and Phil are joined by Vinson Cunningham, a theater critic and staff writer at the New Yorker, to discuss Pope Francis' Fratelli Tutti and Jackie Sibblies Drury's Fairview. The Manifesto: Pope Francis, Fratelli Tutti http://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco20201003enciclica-fratelli-tutti.html Jackie Sibblies Drury, Fairview https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/jackie-sibblies-drury Other work referenced: Vinson Cunningham, Many and One https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/many-and-one-0

    Episode 33: The Dream of Meritocracy Produces Monsters

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2021 89:35


    Phil is joined by Eugene McCarraher, Professor of the Humanities and History at Villanova University, to discuss his article "A Providentialism Without God: The Case Against Meritocracy" as well as Goya's "The Dream of Reason Produces Monsters" The Manifesto: Eugene McCarraher, "A Providentialism Without God: The Case Against Meritocracy" https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/providentialism-without-god The Art: Goya, "The Dream of Reason Produces Monsters" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheSleepofReasonProducesMonsters#/media/File:FranciscoJos%C3%A9deGoyayLucientes-Thesleepofreasonproducesmonsters(No.43),fromLosCaprichos-GoogleArtProject.jpg Other works discussed: Eugene McCarraher, The Enchantments of Mammon https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674984615 Michael Young, The Rise of the Meritocracy https://www.routledge.com/The-Rise-of-the-Meritocracy/Young/p/book/9781560007043 Michael J. Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374289980 David Goodhart, Head, Hand, Heart https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Head-Hand-Heart/David-Goodhart/9781982128470 Fredrik deBoer, The Cult of Smart https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250200372 William Deresiewicz, Excellent Sheep https://billderesiewicz.com/books/excellent-sheep/ Alejandro Anreus, Shades of Suffering: Goya's Graphic Imagination https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/shades-suffering Nicholas Penny, The People's Goya https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v26/n18/nicholas-penny/the-people-s-goya Julian Bell, Teeming With Things Unknown https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/10/08/francisco-goya-teeming-things-unknown/

    Episode 32: Repressive Tolerance and The Judgement

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2021 127:05


    Jake and Phil are joined by Geoff Shullenberg of Outsider Theory (https://outsidertheory.com/) to discuss Herbert Marcuse's "Repressive Tolerance" and Franz Kafka's "The Judgement". The Manifesto: Herbert Marcuse, "Repressive Tolerance" https://www.marcuse.org/herbert/publications/1960s/1965-repressive-tolerance-fulltext.html The Art: Franz Kafka, "The Judgement" https://www.kafka-online.info/-the-judgement.html

    Episode 31: Everything is Broken

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2021 113:31


    Jake and Phil are joined by Alana Newhouse to discuss her essay “Everything Is Broken” and the Ani DiFranco live album “Living in Clip.” The Manifesto: Alana Newhouse, Everything is Broken https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/everything-is-broken The Art: Ani DiFranco, Living in Clip https://anidifranco.bandcamp.com/album/living-in-clip Works Mentioned: Eugene McCarraher, Comrade Ruskin - How a Victorian visionary can save communism from Marx https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/comrade-ruskin Rowan Williams – Interiority and Epiphany https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1468-0025.00030 Fiona Williams MTV speech https://hiddenremote.com/2016/08/11/mtv-vmas-tbt-fiona-apples-blunt-speech-still-matters/ Philip Roth, Sabbath's Theater https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/158029/sabbaths-theater-by-philip-roth/

    Episode 30: King Lear or Endgame or Psalm

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2021 74:19


    Jake and Phil discuss Jan Kott's "King Lear or Endgame" and George Oppen's "Psalm." The Manifesto: Jan Kott, "King Lear or Endgame" https://t.co/L9FRGoRD3L?amp=1 The Art: George Oppen's "Psalm" https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/29449/psalm-56d212ff620c5

    Episode 29: What Were We Thinking

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2020 122:40


    Jake and Phil are joined by Carlos Lozada to discuss his new book, What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era, and the chapter "Decent People" from Garth Greenwell's Cleanness. The Manifesto: Carlos Lozada, What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/What-Were-We-Thinking/Carlos-Lozada/9781982145620 The Art: Garth Greenwell, "Decent People" https://thesewaneereview.com/articles/decent-people

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