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

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 <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/158972/mating-by-norman-rush/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/158972/mating-by-norman-rush/</a> Article cited: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/29/style/mating-norman-rush.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/29/style/mating-norman-rush.html</a>

Episode 55: The Great Mating Debate

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

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 " <a href="https://marygaitskill.substack.com/p/the-despair-of-the-young" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://marygaitskill.substack.com/p/the-despair-of-the-young</a> The Art: Nirvana, "Drain You" <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJUpHxlJUNQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJUpHxlJUNQ</a> Nirvana, "Moist Vagina" <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRT6sYzVN78" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRT6sYzVN78</a>

Episode 54: Nirvana and The Trials of the Young 

Philip K. Dick

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/

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

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

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

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 <a href="https://archive.org/details/truebelieverthou0000hoff/mode/2up" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/truebelieverthou0000hoff/mode/2up</a> The Art: On Reading Crowds and Power <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/49285/on-reading-crowds-and-power" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/49285/on-reading-crowds-and-power</a>

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

Jake and Phil answer questions from our listeners. 

Jake and Phil answer questions from our listeners.

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

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?sov_referrer=theme&amp;theme_id=5135

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" <a href="https://cooperative-individualism.org/huxley-aldous_meditation-on-el-greco-pleasure-that-comes-from-ignorance.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://cooperative-individualism.org/huxley-aldous_meditation-on-el-greco-pleasure-that-comes-from-ignorance.pdf</a> The Art: Picasso - Les Demoiselles d'Avignon <a href="https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79766?sov_referrer=theme&amp;theme_id=5135" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79766?sov_referrer=theme&amp;theme_id=5135</a>

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

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/hf_p-x_enc_19070908_pascendi-dominici-gregis.html Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família https://sagradafamilia.org/en/

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 <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-x/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-x_enc_19070908_pascendi-dominici-gregis.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-x/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-x_enc_19070908_pascendi-dominici-gregis.html</a> Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família <a href="https://sagradafamilia.org/en/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://sagradafamilia.org/en/</a>

Episode 49: Angry Popes and Architecture 

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/

Jake and Phil are joined by Becca Rothfeld (<a href="https://www.beccarothfeld.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.beccarothfeld.com/</a>) 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 <a href="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" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">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</a> Sheila Heti, That Longing for a Holy Completeness <a href="https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/that-longing-for-a-holy-completeness/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/that-longing-for-a-holy-completeness/</a>

Episode 48: The Ultimate Revolution

Phil is joined by Sam Kimbriel, the founding director of Aspen's Philosophy &amp; 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/

Phil is joined by Sam Kimbriel, the founding director of Aspen's Philosophy &amp; Society Initiative, to discuss Sam's essay "What the Democracy Engineering Complex Misses" The Manifesto: Sam Kimbriel, What the Democracy Engineering Complex Misses <a href="https://wisdomofcrowds.live/the-democracy-engineering-complex/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://wisdomofcrowds.live/the-democracy-engineering-complex/</a>

Episode 47: The Democracy Engineering Complex

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/

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

Episode 46: Sunday Morning and God's Grandeur 

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 RigazioMay 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.

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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.

Manifesto! 

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.  The Manifesto: Ted Kaczynski, “Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and It’s Future” https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/manifesto.text.htm The Art: Radiohead, OK Computer Works Referenced: Matt Taibbi, “The American Left’s Silly Victim Complex” http://theneweditor.com/index.php?/archives/6352-The-American-Lefts-Silly-Victim-Complex.html Heidegger, “The Question Concerning Technology” https://monoskop.org/images/4/44/Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf Charles Taylor, A Secular Age https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674026766&amp;content=reviews Jacob Siegel, Send Anarchists, Guns and Money https://thebaffler.com/salvos/anarchists-guns-and-money-siegel Omeros, Derek Walcott  https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781466880405 Don Carpenter, Hard Rain Falling https://www.nyrb.com/products/hard-rain-falling?variant=1094929809 Sam Harris with Jordan Peterson, What Is True? https://samharris.org/podcasts/what-is-true/ Tim Kreider, "Cycle of Fear" https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/07/fear-and-cycling/ The Georgia Guidestones  https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/georgia-guidestones Popular Front's Indigogo campaign https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/popular-front-10k#/ Audio Clips: Monty Python and the Holy Grail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtYU87QNjPw Putney Swope https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPgId7RgQ2E Bill Burr on Chain Restaurants https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWCINJ8uvIc Radiohead, Karma Police https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uYWYWPc9HU Marshall McLuhan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijeMM-NXvus

Jake and Phil talk with Jake Hanrahan of Popular Front (<a href="https://www.popularfront.co/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.popularfront.co/</a>) about Ted Kaczynski’s Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and It’s Future and Radiohead’s OK Computer. The Manifesto: Ted Kaczynski, “Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and It’s Future” <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/manifesto.text.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/manifesto.text.htm</a> The Art: Radiohead, OK Computer Works Referenced: Matt Taibbi, “The American Left’s Silly Victim Complex” <a href="http://theneweditor.com/index.php?/archives/6352-The-American-Lefts-Silly-Victim-Complex.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://theneweditor.com/index.php?/archives/6352-The-American-Lefts-Silly-Victim-Complex.html</a> Heidegger, “The Question Concerning Technology” <a href="https://monoskop.org/images/4/44/Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://monoskop.org/images/4/44/Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf</a> Charles Taylor, A Secular Age <a href="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674026766&amp;content=reviews" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674026766&amp;content=reviews</a> Jacob Siegel, Send Anarchists, Guns and Money <a href="https://thebaffler.com/salvos/anarchists-guns-and-money-siegel" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://thebaffler.com/salvos/anarchists-guns-and-money-siegel</a> Omeros, Derek Walcott <a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781466880405" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781466880405</a> Don Carpenter, Hard Rain Falling <a href="https://www.nyrb.com/products/hard-rain-falling?variant=1094929809" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.nyrb.com/products/hard-rain-falling?variant=1094929809</a> Sam Harris with Jordan Peterson, What Is True? <a href="https://samharris.org/podcasts/what-is-true/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://samharris.org/podcasts/what-is-true/</a> Tim Kreider, "Cycle of Fear" <a href="https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/07/fear-and-cycling/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/07/fear-and-cycling/</a> The Georgia Guidestones <a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/georgia-guidestones" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/georgia-guidestones</a> Popular Front's Indigogo campaign <a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/popular-front-10k#/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/popular-front-10k#/</a> Audio Clips: Monty Python and the Holy Grail <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtYU87QNjPw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtYU87QNjPw</a> Putney Swope <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPgId7RgQ2E" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPgId7RgQ2E</a> Bill Burr on Chain Restaurants <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWCINJ8uvIc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWCINJ8uvIc</a> Radiohead, Karma Police <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uYWYWPc9HU" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uYWYWPc9HU</a> Marshall McLuhan <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijeMM-NXvus" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijeMM-NXvus</a>

Episode 17: The Unabomber and OK Computer

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/ Works: Tim Carney, Alienated America https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062797100/alienated-america/  Jean Amery, How Much Home Does a Person Need https://rosswolfe.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/jean-amery-at-the-minds-limits-contemplations-by-a-survivor-on-auschwitz-and-its-realities.pdf  People's Policy Project, The Family Fun Pack https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2019/02/15/the-family-fun-pack-makes-parenting-easy-for-everyone/ Dan Torday, Boomer1 https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250191793  Joshua Meyrowitz, No Sense of Place https://global.oup.com/academic/product/no-sense-of-place-9780195042313?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;  Christopher Lasch, Haven in a Heartless World  https://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?id=13016  Horkheimer and Adorno, The Dialectic of Enlightenment https://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~randall/Readings%20W2/Horkheimer_Max_Adorno_Theodor_W_Dialectic_of_Enlightenment_Philosophical_Fragments.pdf Jacob Siegel, Dissent vs American Affairs https://thejacobsiegel.com/2017/06/03/on-the-dissent-vs-american-affairs-debate-and-summing-up-some-feelings-about-the-state-of-the-world/  John Gray, Two Faces of Liberalism https://thenewpress.com/books/two-faces-of-liberalism  Thomas Chatterton Williams, Self-Portrait in Black and White https://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?ID=4294998793  Henry Louis Gates, Jr., "Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars" https://global.oup.com/academic/product/loose-canons-9780195083507?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;  Joan Didion, The White Album  https://www.thejoandidion.com/the-white-album Jacob Siegel, "The Vicious Static" Sean O'Casey, The Plough and the Stars Ruby Namdar  https://www.rubynamdar.com/about Isaiah Berlin, Two Enemies of Enlightenment http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/lists/nachlass/hamann.pdf  Azar Gat, Nations https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/nations/15A0C502D17FD36C38A52449CDBA7757 

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 <a href="https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/03/against-the-dead-consensus" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/03/against-the-dead-consensus</a> Gladden Pappin, Toward a Party of the State <a href="https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/02/toward-a-party-of-the-state/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/02/toward-a-party-of-the-state/</a> Daniel McCarthy, A New Conservative Agenda <a href="https://www.firstthings.com/article/2019/03/a-new-conservative-agenda" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.firstthings.com/article/2019/03/a-new-conservative-agenda</a> The Art: Michael Brendan Dougherty, My Father Left Me Ireland <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/591812/my-father-left-me-ireland-by-michael-brendan-dougherty/9780525538653/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/591812/my-father-left-me-ireland-by-michael-brendan-dougherty/9780525538653/</a> Works: Tim Carney, Alienated America <a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062797100/alienated-america/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062797100/alienated-america/</a> Jean Amery, How Much Home Does a Person Need <a href="https://rosswolfe.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/jean-amery-at-the-minds-limits-contemplations-by-a-survivor-on-auschwitz-and-its-realities.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://rosswolfe.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/jean-amery-at-the-minds-limits-contemplations-by-a-survivor-on-auschwitz-and-its-realities.pdf</a> People's Policy Project, The Family Fun Pack <a href="https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2019/02/15/the-family-fun-pack-makes-parenting-easy-for-everyone/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2019/02/15/the-family-fun-pack-makes-parenting-easy-for-everyone/</a> Dan Torday, Boomer1 <a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250191793" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250191793</a> Joshua Meyrowitz, No Sense of Place <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/no-sense-of-place-9780195042313?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://global.oup.com/academic/product/no-sense-of-place-9780195042313?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;</a> Christopher Lasch, Haven in a Heartless World <a href="https://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?id=13016" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?id=13016</a> Horkheimer and Adorno, The Dialectic of Enlightenment <a href="https://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/%7Erandall/Readings%20W2/Horkheimer_Max_Adorno_Theodor_W_Dialectic_of_Enlightenment_Philosophical_Fragments.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~randall/Readings%20W2/Horkheimer_Max_Adorno_Theodor_W_Dialectic_of_Enlightenment_Philosophical_Fragments.pdf</a> Jacob Siegel, Dissent vs American Affairs <a href="https://thejacobsiegel.com/2017/06/03/on-the-dissent-vs-american-affairs-debate-and-summing-up-some-feelings-about-the-state-of-the-world/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://thejacobsiegel.com/2017/06/03/on-the-dissent-vs-american-affairs-debate-and-summing-up-some-feelings-about-the-state-of-the-world/</a> John Gray, Two Faces of Liberalism <a href="https://thenewpress.com/books/two-faces-of-liberalism" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://thenewpress.com/books/two-faces-of-liberalism</a> Thomas Chatterton Williams, Self-Portrait in Black and White <a href="https://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?ID=4294998793" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?ID=4294998793</a> Henry Louis Gates, Jr., "Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars" <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/loose-canons-9780195083507?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://global.oup.com/academic/product/loose-canons-9780195083507?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;</a> Joan Didion, The White Album <a href="https://www.thejoandidion.com/the-white-album" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.thejoandidion.com/the-white-album</a> Jacob Siegel, "The Vicious Static" Sean O'Casey, The Plough and the Stars Ruby Namdar <a href="https://www.rubynamdar.com/about" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.rubynamdar.com/about</a> Isaiah Berlin, Two Enemies of Enlightenment <a href="http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/lists/nachlass/hamann.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/lists/nachlass/hamann.pdf</a> Azar Gat, Nations <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/nations/15A0C502D17FD36C38A52449CDBA7757" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/nations/15A0C502D17FD36C38A52449CDBA7757</a>

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

Frank Miller

Jake and Phil discuss Hannah Arendt's "Reflections on Violence" and Frank Miller's "The Dark Knight Returns." Works referenced Hannah Arendt, “Reflections on Violence” https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1969/02/27/a-special-supplement-reflections-on-violence/ Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (with introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre) http://home.ku.edu.tr/~mbaker/CSHS503/FrantzFanon.pdf Albert Camus, “Camus at ‘Combat’” https://press.princeton.edu/titles/8020.html Martin van Creveld, “The Transformation of War” http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Transformation-of-War/Martin-Van-Creveld/9780029331552 Francis Fukuyama, “The Origins of Political Order” https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374533229 Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, The Next Step for #MeToo is Into the Gray Areas https://jezebel.com/the-next-step-for-metoo-is-into-the-gray-areas-1829269384 Frank Miller, The Dark Knight Returns https://www.dccomics.com/graphic-novels/the-dark-knight-returns-1986/batman-the-dark-knight-returns-0 Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian https://www.cormacmccarthy.com/works/blood-meridian/ Audio Clips Dr. Strangelove https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuP6KbIsNK4&amp;t=1s The Return of the Jedi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F4qzPbcFiA Brazil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSQ5EsbT4cE A Clockwork Orange https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI-mDTdeKR8

Jake and Phil discuss Hannah Arendt's "Reflections on Violence" and Frank Miller's "The Dark Knight Returns." Works referenced Hannah Arendt, “Reflections on Violence” <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1969/02/27/a-special-supplement-reflections-on-violence/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1969/02/27/a-special-supplement-reflections-on-violence/</a> Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (with introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre) <a href="http://home.ku.edu.tr/%7Embaker/CSHS503/FrantzFanon.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://home.ku.edu.tr/~mbaker/CSHS503/FrantzFanon.pdf</a> Albert Camus, “Camus at ‘Combat’” <a href="https://press.princeton.edu/titles/8020.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://press.princeton.edu/titles/8020.html</a> Martin van Creveld, “The Transformation of War” <a href="http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Transformation-of-War/Martin-Van-Creveld/9780029331552" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Transformation-of-War/Martin-Van-Creveld/9780029331552</a> Francis Fukuyama, “The Origins of Political Order” <a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374533229" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374533229</a> Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, The Next Step for #MeToo is Into the Gray Areas <a href="https://jezebel.com/the-next-step-for-metoo-is-into-the-gray-areas-1829269384" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://jezebel.com/the-next-step-for-metoo-is-into-the-gray-areas-1829269384</a> Frank Miller, The Dark Knight Returns <a href="https://www.dccomics.com/graphic-novels/the-dark-knight-returns-1986/batman-the-dark-knight-returns-0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.dccomics.com/graphic-novels/the-dark-knight-returns-1986/batman-the-dark-knight-returns-0</a> Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian <a href="https://www.cormacmccarthy.com/works/blood-meridian/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.cormacmccarthy.com/works/blood-meridian/</a> Audio Clips Dr. Strangelove <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuP6KbIsNK4&amp;t=1s" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuP6KbIsNK4&amp;t=1s</a> The Return of the Jedi <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F4qzPbcFiA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F4qzPbcFiA</a> Brazil <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSQ5EsbT4cE" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSQ5EsbT4cE</a> A Clockwork Orange <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI-mDTdeKR8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI-mDTdeKR8</a>

Episode 10: Violence according to Hannah Arendt and Frank Miller

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?  Works mentioned: Matt Gallagher and Roy Scranton, Fire and Forget https://www.dacapopress.com/titles/matt-gallagher/fire-and-forget/9780306821776/ Matt Gallagher, Empire City https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781501177798 Gustav Hasford, The Short Timers https://www.amazon.com/Short-Timers-Gustav-Hasford/dp/0553267396 Full Metal Jacket https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093058/ Rambo: First Blood Part II https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089880/ Grover Lewis The Several Battles of Gustav Hasford  https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-06-28-tm-430-story.html Matt Gallagher, Welcome to the Age of the Commando https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/opinion/sunday/welcome-to-the-age-of-the-commando.html?ref=opinion Favorite War Films:  Gallagher: Kelly’s Heroes.  Jake: The Great Escape. Paths of Glory. The Big Red One. Phil: Come and See. The Battle of Algiers. 

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 <a href="http://gustavhasford.blogspot.com/2013/01/vietnam-means-never-having-to-say-youre.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://gustavhasford.blogspot.com/2013/01/vietnam-means-never-having-to-say-youre.html</a> The Art: Rambo, I guess? Works mentioned: Matt Gallagher and Roy Scranton, Fire and Forget <a href="https://www.dacapopress.com/titles/matt-gallagher/fire-and-forget/9780306821776/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.dacapopress.com/titles/matt-gallagher/fire-and-forget/9780306821776/</a> Matt Gallagher, Empire City <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781501177798" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781501177798</a> Gustav Hasford, The Short Timers <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Short-Timers-Gustav-Hasford/dp/0553267396" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Short-Timers-Gustav-Hasford/dp/0553267396</a> Full Metal Jacket <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093058/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093058/</a> Rambo: First Blood Part II <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089880/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089880/</a> Grover Lewis The Several Battles of Gustav Hasford <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-06-28-tm-430-story.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-06-28-tm-430-story.html</a> Matt Gallagher, Welcome to the Age of the Commando <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/opinion/sunday/welcome-to-the-age-of-the-commando.html?ref=opinion" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/opinion/sunday/welcome-to-the-age-of-the-commando.html?ref=opinion</a> Favorite War Films: Gallagher: Kelly’s Heroes. Jake: The Great Escape. Paths of Glory. The Big Red One. Phil: Come and See. The Battle of Algiers.

Episode 24: Vietnam Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry

Martin Scorcese

Episode 4: My Twisted World and Martin Scorcese's Taxi Driver

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.” Works referenced:  Virginia Woolf, “The Modern Essay” “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown” https://www.thoughtco.com/the-modern-essay-by-virginia-woolf-1690207 http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/MrBennettAndMrsBrown.pdf Max Beerbohm, “A Relic,” “Laughter”  http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1956/1956-h/1956-h.htm#link2H_4_0001 Daniel Clowes http://www.fantagraphics.com/artists/daniel-clowes/#/category/967 Eliot Weinberger, An Elemental Thing https://www.ndbooks.com/book/an-elemental-thing/ Anatole Broyard, Kafka Was the Rage https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/20086/kafka-was-the-rage-by-anatole-broyard/9780679781264/ Hegel, The Phenomenology Of Spirit, Terry Pinkard translation https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel-the-phenomenology-of-spirit/6FEDB42FDEF2E5FF97FEAE0EEEDABE8E woketoddler Claas Relotius’ In Eigener Sache https://magazin.spiegel.de/SP/2017/13/150231550/index.html (For those interested in Relotius’ lies about Fergus Falls, this is from Michele Anderson and Jake Krohn, residents of the town he fictionalized https://medium.com/@micheleanderson/der-spiegel-journalist-messed-with-the-wrong-small-town-d92f3e0e01a7) Flannery O’Connor, “The Nature and Aim of Fiction”  https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374508043 Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West http://people.duke.edu/~aparks/Spengler.html Naipaul, The Writer and the World (essays mentioned: “Jacques Soustelle and the Decline of the West,” “A Second Visit,” “Michael X and the Black Power Killings in Trinidad,” “Heavy Manners in Grenada,” “Our Universal Civilization”)  https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/119643/the-writer-and-the-world-by-v-s-naipaul-edited-with-an-introduction-by-pankaj-mishra/9780375707308/ Mario Vargas Llosa, “El Odio y El Amor”  https://elpais.com/diario/1991/12/30/opinion/694047611_850215.html Naipaul, A Bend in the River https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/v-s-naipaul/a-bend-in-the-river/9780330522991 Naipaul, Guerrillas https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/v-s-naipaul/guerrillas/9780330522915 Edward Said, “Intellectuals in the Post-Colonial World.” https://www.jstor.org/stable/40547786 Derek Walcott, Nobel Lecture: “The Antilles: Fragments Of Epic Memory”  https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1992/walcott/lecture/ Pablo Mukherjee, “Doomed to Smallness: Violence, VS Naipaul, and the Global South” https://www.jstor.org/stable/20479287 Anatole Broyard, “What the Cystoscope Said” https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/20085/intoxicated-by-my-illness-by-anatole-broyard/9780449908341/ Lewis Thomas, “The Lives of a Cell” https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/535043/lives-of-a-cell-by-lewis-thomas/9780140047431/ Wesley Yang, “The Face of Seung-Hui Cho” https://nplusonemag.com/issue-6/essays/face-seung-hui-cho/ Audio clips:  Excerpt from Kirsten Wever's Librivox recording of Max Beerbohm's "A Relic" https://librivox.org/and-even-now-by-max-beerbohm/ Snowpiercer  https://youtu.be/3AIQdfW2Pds Edward Said - A Critique of Naipaul https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrcv3DbiIqQ

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.” Works referenced: Virginia Woolf, “The Modern Essay” “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown” <a href="https://www.thoughtco.com/the-modern-essay-by-virginia-woolf-1690207" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.thoughtco.com/the-modern-essay-by-virginia-woolf-1690207</a> <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/%7Eem36/MrBennettAndMrsBrown.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/MrBennettAndMrsBrown.pdf</a> Max Beerbohm, “A Relic,” “Laughter” <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1956/1956-h/1956-h.htm#link2H_4_0001" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1956/1956-h/1956-h.htm#link2H_4_0001</a> Daniel Clowes <a href="http://www.fantagraphics.com/artists/daniel-clowes/#/category/967" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.fantagraphics.com/artists/daniel-clowes/#/category/967</a> Eliot Weinberger, An Elemental Thing <a href="https://www.ndbooks.com/book/an-elemental-thing/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.ndbooks.com/book/an-elemental-thing/</a> Anatole Broyard, Kafka Was the Rage <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/20086/kafka-was-the-rage-by-anatole-broyard/9780679781264/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/20086/kafka-was-the-rage-by-anatole-broyard/9780679781264/</a> Hegel, The Phenomenology Of Spirit, Terry Pinkard translation <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel-the-phenomenology-of-spirit/6FEDB42FDEF2E5FF97FEAE0EEEDABE8E" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel-the-phenomenology-of-spirit/6FEDB42FDEF2E5FF97FEAE0EEEDABE8E</a> woketoddler Claas Relotius’ In Eigener Sache <a href="https://magazin.spiegel.de/SP/2017/13/150231550/index.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://magazin.spiegel.de/SP/2017/13/150231550/index.html</a> (For those interested in Relotius’ lies about Fergus Falls, this is from Michele Anderson and Jake Krohn, residents of the town he fictionalized <a href="https://medium.com/@micheleanderson/der-spiegel-journalist-messed-with-the-wrong-small-town-d92f3e0e01a7" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://medium.com/@micheleanderson/der-spiegel-journalist-messed-with-the-wrong-small-town-d92f3e0e01a7</a>) Flannery O’Connor, “The Nature and Aim of Fiction” <a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374508043" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374508043</a> Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West <a href="http://people.duke.edu/%7Eaparks/Spengler.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://people.duke.edu/~aparks/Spengler.html</a> Naipaul, The Writer and the World (essays mentioned: “Jacques Soustelle and the Decline of the West,” “A Second Visit,” “Michael X and the Black Power Killings in Trinidad,” “Heavy Manners in Grenada,” “Our Universal Civilization”) <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/119643/the-writer-and-the-world-by-v-s-naipaul-edited-with-an-introduction-by-pankaj-mishra/9780375707308/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/119643/the-writer-and-the-world-by-v-s-naipaul-edited-with-an-introduction-by-pankaj-mishra/9780375707308/</a> Mario Vargas Llosa, “El Odio y El Amor” <a href="https://elpais.com/diario/1991/12/30/opinion/694047611_850215.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://elpais.com/diario/1991/12/30/opinion/694047611_850215.html</a> Naipaul, A Bend in the River <a href="https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/v-s-naipaul/a-bend-in-the-river/9780330522991" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/v-s-naipaul/a-bend-in-the-river/9780330522991</a> Naipaul, Guerrillas <a href="https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/v-s-naipaul/guerrillas/9780330522915" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/v-s-naipaul/guerrillas/9780330522915</a> Edward Said, “Intellectuals in the Post-Colonial World.” <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/40547786" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.jstor.org/stable/40547786</a> Derek Walcott, Nobel Lecture: “The Antilles: Fragments Of Epic Memory” <a href="https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1992/walcott/lecture/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1992/walcott/lecture/</a> Pablo Mukherjee, “Doomed to Smallness: Violence, VS Naipaul, and the Global South” <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/20479287" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.jstor.org/stable/20479287</a> Anatole Broyard, “What the Cystoscope Said” <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/20085/intoxicated-by-my-illness-by-anatole-broyard/9780449908341/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/20085/intoxicated-by-my-illness-by-anatole-broyard/9780449908341/</a> Lewis Thomas, “The Lives of a Cell” <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/535043/lives-of-a-cell-by-lewis-thomas/9780140047431/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/535043/lives-of-a-cell-by-lewis-thomas/9780140047431/</a> Wesley Yang, “The Face of Seung-Hui Cho” <a href="https://nplusonemag.com/issue-6/essays/face-seung-hui-cho/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://nplusonemag.com/issue-6/essays/face-seung-hui-cho/</a> Audio clips: Excerpt from Kirsten Wever's Librivox recording of Max Beerbohm's "A Relic" <a href="https://librivox.org/and-even-now-by-max-beerbohm/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://librivox.org/and-even-now-by-max-beerbohm/</a> Snowpiercer <a href="https://youtu.be/3AIQdfW2Pds" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/3AIQdfW2Pds</a> Edward Said - A Critique of Naipaul <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrcv3DbiIqQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrcv3DbiIqQ</a>

Episode 11: The Modern Essay and the Decline of Civilization

Ian McEwan

Episode 3: Schiller's Aesthetic Letters and and Ian McEwan's The Use of Poetry

Jake and Phil talk about the political and social obligations of art. To set the stage they discuss W.E.B. Du Bois' "Criteria for Negro Art" originally delivered as a speech to the 1926 Conference of the NAACP in Chicago. The main event is a consideration of James Baldwin's famous 1949 essay "Everybody's Protest Novel." For the finale, the gents  talk about James Thurber's 1931 short story, "The Greatest Man in the World." Other works referenced in this episode: Paul C. Taylor, Black is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Black+is+Beautiful%3A+A+Philosophy+of+Black+Aesthetics-p-9781405150620 Ta-Nehisi Coates, I'm Not Black, I'm Kanye https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/im-not-black-im-kanye/559763/ Francois Mauriac's Nobel Prize Speech https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1952/mauriac-speech.html Edward P. Jones, The Known World https://www.harpercollins.com/9780060557546/the-known-world

Jake and Phil talk about the political and social obligations of art. To set the stage they discuss W.E.B. Du Bois' "Criteria for Negro Art" originally delivered as a speech to the 1926 Conference of the NAACP in Chicago. The main event is a consideration of James Baldwin's famous 1949 essay "Everybody's Protest Novel." For the finale, the gents talk about James Thurber's 1931 short story, "The Greatest Man in the World." Other works referenced in this episode: Paul C. Taylor, Black is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics <a href="https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Black+is+Beautiful%3A+A+Philosophy+of+Black+Aesthetics-p-9781405150620" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Black+is+Beautiful%3A+A+Philosophy+of+Black+Aesthetics-p-9781405150620</a> Ta-Nehisi Coates, I'm Not Black, I'm Kanye <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/im-not-black-im-kanye/559763/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/im-not-black-im-kanye/559763/</a> Francois Mauriac's Nobel Prize Speech <a href="https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1952/mauriac-speech.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1952/mauriac-speech.html</a> Edward P. Jones, The Known World <a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/9780060557546/the-known-world" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.harpercollins.com/9780060557546/the-known-world</a>

Episode 5: Everybody's Protest Novel and the Responsibilities of Art

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 Manifesto: Michael Lind, The New Class War https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/607661/the-new-class-war-by-michael-lind/ Art: Auden, The Fall of Rome https://poets.org/poem/fall-rome Works mentioned: Dustin Guastella, White collar populism  https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/11/white-collar-populism/ Zach Goldberg, America's White Saviors https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/284875/americas-white-saviors Auden, Lullaby  https://poets.org/poem/lullaby-0

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 Manifesto: Michael Lind, The New Class War <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/607661/the-new-class-war-by-michael-lind/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/607661/the-new-class-war-by-michael-lind/</a> Art: Auden, The Fall of Rome <a href="https://poets.org/poem/fall-rome" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://poets.org/poem/fall-rome</a> Works mentioned: Dustin Guastella, White collar populism <a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/11/white-collar-populism/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/11/white-collar-populism/</a> Zach Goldberg, America's White Saviors <a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/284875/americas-white-saviors" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/284875/americas-white-saviors</a> Auden, Lullaby <a href="https://poets.org/poem/lullaby-0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://poets.org/poem/lullaby-0</a>

Episode 21: Class War and Auden

The Art:  Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim  https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5658/5658-h/5658-h.htm Other works discussed: Thomas Nagel, The Absurd https://philosophy.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/The%20Absurd%20-%20Thomas%20Nagel.pdf Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan, The I That Tells Itself: A Bakhtinian Perspective on Narrative Identity https://www.jstor.org/stable/30219268 The Sacred and Profane Love Podcast https://thevirtueblog.com/category/podcast-sacred-and-profane-love/

The Art: Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5658/5658-h/5658-h.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5658/5658-h/5658-h.htm</a> Other works discussed: Thomas Nagel, The Absurd <a href="https://philosophy.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/The%20Absurd%20-%20Thomas%20Nagel.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://philosophy.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/The%20Absurd%20-%20Thomas%20Nagel.pdf</a> Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan, The I That Tells Itself: A Bakhtinian Perspective on Narrative Identity <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/30219268" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.jstor.org/stable/30219268</a> The Sacred and Profane Love Podcast <a href="https://thevirtueblog.com/category/podcast-sacred-and-profane-love/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://thevirtueblog.com/category/podcast-sacred-and-profane-love/</a>

Episode 23: Lord Jim and the Absurd

Jake and Phil discuss several accelerationist manifestos along with the video American Reflexxx, by Alli Coates and Signe Pierce.  Works referenced: Nick Land, A Quick and Dirty Introduction to Accelerationism  https://jacobitemag.com/2017/05/25/a-quick-and-dirty-introduction-to-accelerationism/ Joseph Lawrence, “A Fable” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/01/25/a-fable-poems-lawrence-joseph Lewis Thomas, “On Societies as Organisms” https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJM197107082850207 Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek, #accelerate Manifesto http://criticallegalthinking.com/2013/05/14/accelerate-manifesto-for-an-accelerationist-politics/ William James, “The Will to Believe” https://www.mnsu.edu/philosophy/THEWILLTOBELIEVEbyJames.pdf Ethan Kapstein, “Workers and the World Economy: Breaking the Post-War Bargain”  https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/1996-05-01/workers-and-world-economy-breaking-postwar-bargain Jacob Siegel, “Fully Automated Culture War” https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/279430/fully-automated-culture-war Adam Curtis, HyperNormalization https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04b183c Friedrich Hayek, “The Use of Knowledge in Society” https://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/hykKnw.html The Economist, “Slowbalisation” https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/01/24/the-steam-has-gone-out-of-globalisation Karl Bunker, “They Have All One Breath” (this is the Clarkesworld story whose title Phil couldn’t recall) http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_01_19f/ Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy https://www.amazon.com/Capitalism-Socialism-Democracy-Perennial-Thought/dp/0061561614 AltWoke Manifesto http://tripleampersand.org/alt-woke-manifesto/ Aria Dean, Notes on Blacceleration https://www.e-flux.com/journal/87/169402/notes-on-blacceleration/ Toure Reed, “Between Obama and Coates” https://catalyst-journal.com/vol1/no4/between-obama-and-coates Jacob Siegel, “Send Anarchists, Guns, and Money” https://thebaffler.com/salvos/anarchists-guns-and-money-siegel Alli Coates and Signe Pierce, American Reflexxx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXn1xavynj8 Helen Andrews, “Shame Storm” https://www.firstthings.com/article/2019/01/shame-storm Video Clips Hail, Caesar! https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/b1cfd96f-c637-4005-a42b-b3a108e67306 Christina Aguilera, “Accelerate” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSRSgMp5X1w 3D Printed Guns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DconsfGsXyA&amp;t=917s Robert Pinsky reciting "Shirt" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI8DvfM0VCs

Jake and Phil discuss several accelerationist manifestos along with the video American Reflexxx, by Alli Coates and Signe Pierce. Works referenced: Nick Land, A Quick and Dirty Introduction to Accelerationism <a href="https://jacobitemag.com/2017/05/25/a-quick-and-dirty-introduction-to-accelerationism/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://jacobitemag.com/2017/05/25/a-quick-and-dirty-introduction-to-accelerationism/</a> Joseph Lawrence, “A Fable” <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/01/25/a-fable-poems-lawrence-joseph" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/01/25/a-fable-poems-lawrence-joseph</a> Lewis Thomas, “On Societies as Organisms” <a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJM197107082850207" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJM197107082850207</a> Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek, #accelerate Manifesto <a href="http://criticallegalthinking.com/2013/05/14/accelerate-manifesto-for-an-accelerationist-politics/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://criticallegalthinking.com/2013/05/14/accelerate-manifesto-for-an-accelerationist-politics/</a> William James, “The Will to Believe” <a href="https://www.mnsu.edu/philosophy/THEWILLTOBELIEVEbyJames.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.mnsu.edu/philosophy/THEWILLTOBELIEVEbyJames.pdf</a> Ethan Kapstein, “Workers and the World Economy: Breaking the Post-War Bargain” <a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/1996-05-01/workers-and-world-economy-breaking-postwar-bargain" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/1996-05-01/workers-and-world-economy-breaking-postwar-bargain</a> Jacob Siegel, “Fully Automated Culture War” <a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/279430/fully-automated-culture-war" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/279430/fully-automated-culture-war</a> Adam Curtis, HyperNormalization <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04b183c" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04b183c</a> Friedrich Hayek, “The Use of Knowledge in Society” <a href="https://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/hykKnw.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/hykKnw.html</a> The Economist, “Slowbalisation” <a href="https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/01/24/the-steam-has-gone-out-of-globalisation" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/01/24/the-steam-has-gone-out-of-globalisation</a> Karl Bunker, “They Have All One Breath” (this is the Clarkesworld story whose title Phil couldn’t recall) <a href="http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_01_19f/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_01_19f/</a> Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Capitalism-Socialism-Democracy-Perennial-Thought/dp/0061561614" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Capitalism-Socialism-Democracy-Perennial-Thought/dp/0061561614</a> AltWoke Manifesto <a href="http://tripleampersand.org/alt-woke-manifesto/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://tripleampersand.org/alt-woke-manifesto/</a> Aria Dean, Notes on Blacceleration <a href="https://www.e-flux.com/journal/87/169402/notes-on-blacceleration/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.e-flux.com/journal/87/169402/notes-on-blacceleration/</a> Toure Reed, “Between Obama and Coates” <a href="https://catalyst-journal.com/vol1/no4/between-obama-and-coates" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://catalyst-journal.com/vol1/no4/between-obama-and-coates</a> Jacob Siegel, “Send Anarchists, Guns, and Money” <a href="https://thebaffler.com/salvos/anarchists-guns-and-money-siegel" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://thebaffler.com/salvos/anarchists-guns-and-money-siegel</a> Alli Coates and Signe Pierce, American Reflexxx <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXn1xavynj8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXn1xavynj8</a> Helen Andrews, “Shame Storm” <a href="https://www.firstthings.com/article/2019/01/shame-storm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.firstthings.com/article/2019/01/shame-storm</a> Video Clips Hail, Caesar! <a href="https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/b1cfd96f-c637-4005-a42b-b3a108e67306" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/b1cfd96f-c637-4005-a42b-b3a108e67306</a> Christina Aguilera, “Accelerate” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSRSgMp5X1w" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSRSgMp5X1w</a> 3D Printed Guns <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DconsfGsXyA&amp;t=917s" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DconsfGsXyA&amp;t=917s</a> Robert Pinsky reciting "Shirt" <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI8DvfM0VCs" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI8DvfM0VCs</a>

Episode 12: Accelerationism and Big Sex Object Mirrorfaces

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 References: Stanley Crouch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Crouch Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray, Trading Twelves https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/46140/trading-twelves-by-edited-by-albert-murray-and-john-f-callahan-preface-by-albert-murray-introduction-by-john-f-callahan/ Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man http://www.randomhousebooks.com/books/46131/ J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4666 James Baldwin, Everybody’s Protest Novel http://faculty.gordonstate.edu/lsanders-senu/Everybody's%20Protest%20Novel%20by%20James%20Baldwin.pdf Albert Murray, Stomping the Blues https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/stomping-the-blues Thomas Chatterton Williams, A Blues for Albert Murray https://www.thenation.com/article/blues-for-murray/ Reverend Eugene Rivers, On the Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Crack http://bostonreview.net/reverend-eugene-rivers-on-the-responsiblity-of-intellectuals-in-the-age-of-crack Gordon Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/193550/the-radicalism-of-the-american-revolution-by-gordon-s-wood/ The William and Mary Quarterly, Forum: How Revolutionary Was the Revolution? A Discussion of Gordon S. Wood's The Radicalism of the American Revolution https://www.jstor.org/stable/i348499 Nikole Hannah-Jones,  The 1619 Project, “Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black mericans have fought to make them true.” https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/black-history-american-democracy.html Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity  https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/de-beauvoir/ambiguity/ Ralph Ellison, Shadow and Act https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/46135/shadow-and-act-by-ralph-ellison/ Coleman Hughes, The Case for Black Optimism https://quillette.com/2019/09/28/the-case-for-black-optimism/ Coleman Hughes, Kanye West and the Future of Black Conservatism https://quillette.com/2018/04/24/kanye-west-future-black-conservatism/ Zadie Smith, Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/10/24/zadie-smith-in-defense-of-fiction/ The Glenn Show, Black American Culture and the Racial Wealth Gap with Glenn Loury and Coleman Hughes https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/black-american-culture-racial-wealth-gap-glenn-loury/id505824976?i=1000444070055 The Fifth Column Podcast, On Anti-Racism with Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, Coleman Hughes, Thomas Chatterton Williams, and Kmele Foster http://wethefifth.com/episodes/121 Tobi Haslett, Irrational Man https://www.bookforum.com/print/2603/thomas-chatterton-williams-s-confused-argument-for-a-post-racial-society-23610 Ralph Ellison, “The Novel as a Function of American Democracy” https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/46137/the-collected-essays-of-ralph-ellison-by-ralph-ellison/ Zadie Smith, Getting In and Getting Out https://harpers.org/archive/2017/07/getting-in-and-out/ Corey D. Fields, Black Elephants in the Room https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520291904/black-elephants-in-the-room Ralph Ellison, “Brave Words for A Startling Occasion”  https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/46137/the-collected-essays-of-ralph-ellison-by-ralph-ellison/

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 <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/543160/the-omni-americans-by-albert-murray--with-a-foreword-by-henry-louis-gates-jr/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/543160/the-omni-americans-by-albert-murray--with-a-foreword-by-henry-louis-gates-jr/</a> Art: Thomas Chatterton Williams, Self-Portrait in Black and White <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/617884/self-portrait-in-black-and-white-by-thomas-chatterton-williams/9780393608861" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/617884/self-portrait-in-black-and-white-by-thomas-chatterton-williams/9780393608861</a> References: Stanley Crouch <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Crouch" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Crouch</a> Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray, Trading Twelves <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/46140/trading-twelves-by-edited-by-albert-murray-and-john-f-callahan-preface-by-albert-murray-introduction-by-john-f-callahan/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/46140/trading-twelves-by-edited-by-albert-murray-and-john-f-callahan-preface-by-albert-murray-introduction-by-john-f-callahan/</a> Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man <a href="http://www.randomhousebooks.com/books/46131/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.randomhousebooks.com/books/46131/</a> J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4666" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4666</a> James Baldwin, Everybody’s Protest Novel <a href="http://faculty.gordonstate.edu/lsanders-senu/Everybody's%20Protest%20Novel%20by%20James%20Baldwin.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://faculty.gordonstate.edu/lsanders-senu/Everybody's%20Protest%20Novel%20by%20James%20Baldwin.pdf</a> Albert Murray, Stomping the Blues <a href="https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/stomping-the-blues" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/stomping-the-blues</a> Thomas Chatterton Williams, A Blues for Albert Murray <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/blues-for-murray/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.thenation.com/article/blues-for-murray/</a> Reverend Eugene Rivers, On the Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Crack <a href="http://bostonreview.net/reverend-eugene-rivers-on-the-responsiblity-of-intellectuals-in-the-age-of-crack" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bostonreview.net/reverend-eugene-rivers-on-the-responsiblity-of-intellectuals-in-the-age-of-crack</a> Gordon Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/193550/the-radicalism-of-the-american-revolution-by-gordon-s-wood/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/193550/the-radicalism-of-the-american-revolution-by-gordon-s-wood/</a> The William and Mary Quarterly, Forum: How Revolutionary Was the Revolution? A Discussion of Gordon S. Wood's The Radicalism of the American Revolution <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/i348499" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.jstor.org/stable/i348499</a> Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project, “Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black mericans have fought to make them true.” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/black-history-american-democracy.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/black-history-american-democracy.html</a> Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity <a href="https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/de-beauvoir/ambiguity/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/de-beauvoir/ambiguity/</a> Ralph Ellison, Shadow and Act <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/46135/shadow-and-act-by-ralph-ellison/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/46135/shadow-and-act-by-ralph-ellison/</a> Coleman Hughes, The Case for Black Optimism <a href="https://quillette.com/2019/09/28/the-case-for-black-optimism/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://quillette.com/2019/09/28/the-case-for-black-optimism/</a> Coleman Hughes, Kanye West and the Future of Black Conservatism <a href="https://quillette.com/2018/04/24/kanye-west-future-black-conservatism/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://quillette.com/2018/04/24/kanye-west-future-black-conservatism/</a> Zadie Smith, Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/10/24/zadie-smith-in-defense-of-fiction/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/10/24/zadie-smith-in-defense-of-fiction/</a> The Glenn Show, Black American Culture and the Racial Wealth Gap with Glenn Loury and Coleman Hughes <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/black-american-culture-racial-wealth-gap-glenn-loury/id505824976?i=1000444070055" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/black-american-culture-racial-wealth-gap-glenn-loury/id505824976?i=1000444070055</a> The Fifth Column Podcast, On Anti-Racism with Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, Coleman Hughes, Thomas Chatterton Williams, and Kmele Foster <a href="http://wethefifth.com/episodes/121" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://wethefifth.com/episodes/121</a> Tobi Haslett, Irrational Man <a href="https://www.bookforum.com/print/2603/thomas-chatterton-williams-s-confused-argument-for-a-post-racial-society-23610" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bookforum.com/print/2603/thomas-chatterton-williams-s-confused-argument-for-a-post-racial-society-23610</a> Ralph Ellison, “The Novel as a Function of American Democracy” <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/46137/the-collected-essays-of-ralph-ellison-by-ralph-ellison/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/46137/the-collected-essays-of-ralph-ellison-by-ralph-ellison/</a> Zadie Smith, Getting In and Getting Out <a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2017/07/getting-in-and-out/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://harpers.org/archive/2017/07/getting-in-and-out/</a> Corey D. Fields, Black Elephants in the Room <a href="https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520291904/black-elephants-in-the-room" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520291904/black-elephants-in-the-room</a> Ralph Ellison, “Brave Words for A Startling Occasion” <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/46137/the-collected-essays-of-ralph-ellison-by-ralph-ellison/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/46137/the-collected-essays-of-ralph-ellison-by-ralph-ellison/</a>

Episode 18: Omni-Americans and Unlearning Race

Ellen West

Jake and Phil discuss America's greatest poets named Frank, with Frank O’Hara’s "Personism Manifesto" and Frank Bidart’s “Ellen West” Frank O’Hara, “Personism” http://opencourses.uoa.gr/modules/document/file.php/ENL9/Instructional%20Package/Texts//Readings/Week%203%3A%20Pop%20art%3A%20breaking%20down%20the%20boundaries%20between%20high%20and%20low/Frank%20O%27Hara%20Personism-2.pdf Reuben Brower, The Fields of Light https://books.google.com/books/about/The_fields_of_light.html?id=AuhYAAAAMAAJ Kenneth Koch, “Fresh Air” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52929/fresh-air Daniel Clowes, Art School Confidential https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364955/ The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520201668/the-collected-poems-of-frank-ohara Steven Burt, “Okay I’ll Call You/Yes Call Me: Frank O’Hara’s Personism” https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/okay-ill-call-you-yes-call-me-frank-oharas-personism Frank O’Hara, “Meditations in an Emergency” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/26538/meditations-in-an-emergency Frank O’Hara, “Having a Coke With You” https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/having-coke-you Sloterdijk, Rules for the Human Zoo https://rekveld.home.xs4all.nl/tech/Sloterdijk_RulesForTheHumanZoo.pdf Frank O’Hara, “My Heart” https://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/poetry_in_motion/atlas/newyork/my_heart/ Czeslaw Milosz, The Captive Mind https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/115135/the-captive-mind-by-czeslaw-milosz/9780679728566/ Geoffrey Hill, “Language, Suffering, and Silence” https://academic.oup.com/litimag/article/1/2/240/958441 Frank O’Hara, “Ave Maria” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42670/ave-maria Frank Bidart, “Ellen West” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48284/ellen-west Tom Sleigh, Interview with a Ghost https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/interview-ghost Frank Bidart, “Writing Ellen West” https://frame-tales.tumblr.com/post/67714978473/frank-bidart-writing-ellen-west Frank Bidart, Half-Light: Collected Poems https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374125950 De Maistre, as quoted in Isaiah Berlin’s Two Enemies of Enlightenment http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/lists/nachlass/maistre.pdf David Jones, Epoch and Artist https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571339501-epoch-and-artist.html Audio Clips: The Stranglers, No More Heroes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gfIgA-PYyQ John Ashberry reading a letter from O’Hara https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oacw2wX5nac Frank O’Hara reading Having a Coke With You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDLwivcpFe8 Style Wars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BdlXqBXm2o Pocahontas, Colors of the Wind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9MvdMqKvpU

Jake and Phil discuss America's greatest poets named Frank, with Frank O’Hara’s "Personism Manifesto" and Frank Bidart’s “Ellen West” Frank O’Hara, “Personism” <a href="http://opencourses.uoa.gr/modules/document/file.php/ENL9/Instructional%20Package/Texts//Readings/Week%203%3A%20Pop%20art%3A%20breaking%20down%20the%20boundaries%20between%20high%20and%20low/Frank%20O%27Hara%20Personism-2.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://opencourses.uoa.gr/modules/document/file.php/ENL9/Instructional%20Package/Texts//Readings/Week%203%3A%20Pop%20art%3A%20breaking%20down%20the%20boundaries%20between%20high%20and%20low/Frank%20O%27Hara%20Personism-2.pdf</a> Reuben Brower, The Fields of Light <a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/The_fields_of_light.html?id=AuhYAAAAMAAJ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books/about/The_fields_of_light.html?id=AuhYAAAAMAAJ</a> Kenneth Koch, “Fresh Air” <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52929/fresh-air" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52929/fresh-air</a> Daniel Clowes, Art School Confidential <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364955/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364955/</a> The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara <a href="https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520201668/the-collected-poems-of-frank-ohara" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520201668/the-collected-poems-of-frank-ohara</a> Steven Burt, “Okay I’ll Call You/Yes Call Me: Frank O’Hara’s Personism” <a href="https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/okay-ill-call-you-yes-call-me-frank-oharas-personism" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/okay-ill-call-you-yes-call-me-frank-oharas-personism</a> Frank O’Hara, “Meditations in an Emergency” <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/26538/meditations-in-an-emergency" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/26538/meditations-in-an-emergency</a> Frank O’Hara, “Having a Coke With You” <a href="https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/having-coke-you" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/having-coke-you</a> Sloterdijk, Rules for the Human Zoo <a href="https://rekveld.home.xs4all.nl/tech/Sloterdijk_RulesForTheHumanZoo.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://rekveld.home.xs4all.nl/tech/Sloterdijk_RulesForTheHumanZoo.pdf</a> Frank O’Hara, “My Heart” <a href="https://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/poetry_in_motion/atlas/newyork/my_heart/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/poetry_in_motion/atlas/newyork/my_heart/</a> Czeslaw Milosz, The Captive Mind <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/115135/the-captive-mind-by-czeslaw-milosz/9780679728566/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/115135/the-captive-mind-by-czeslaw-milosz/9780679728566/</a> Geoffrey Hill, “Language, Suffering, and Silence” <a href="https://academic.oup.com/litimag/article/1/2/240/958441" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://academic.oup.com/litimag/article/1/2/240/958441</a> Frank O’Hara, “Ave Maria” <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42670/ave-maria" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42670/ave-maria</a> Frank Bidart, “Ellen West” <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48284/ellen-west" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48284/ellen-west</a> Tom Sleigh, Interview with a Ghost <a href="https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/interview-ghost" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/interview-ghost</a> Frank Bidart, “Writing Ellen West” <a href="https://frame-tales.tumblr.com/post/67714978473/frank-bidart-writing-ellen-west" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://frame-tales.tumblr.com/post/67714978473/frank-bidart-writing-ellen-west</a> Frank Bidart, Half-Light: Collected Poems <a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374125950" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374125950</a> De Maistre, as quoted in Isaiah Berlin’s Two Enemies of Enlightenment <a href="http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/lists/nachlass/maistre.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/lists/nachlass/maistre.pdf</a> David Jones, Epoch and Artist <a href="https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571339501-epoch-and-artist.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571339501-epoch-and-artist.html</a> Audio Clips: The Stranglers, No More Heroes <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gfIgA-PYyQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gfIgA-PYyQ</a> John Ashberry reading a letter from O’Hara <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oacw2wX5nac" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oacw2wX5nac</a> Frank O’Hara reading Having a Coke With You <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDLwivcpFe8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDLwivcpFe8</a> Style Wars <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BdlXqBXm2o" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BdlXqBXm2o</a> Pocahontas, Colors of the Wind <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9MvdMqKvpU" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9MvdMqKvpU</a>

Episode 13: Personism and Ellen West

Episode 20: The Conversation 

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.  The Manifesto:  Robert Alter, “A Literary Approach to the Bible,” from The Art of Biblical Narrative https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/robert-alter/the-art-of-biblical-narrative/9780465022557/ The Art: The Book of Jonah  https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jonah+1&amp;version=KJV Works cited: Amy Hungerford, Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion Since 1960 https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691145754/postmodern-belief Genesis 38, Judah and Tamar https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+38&amp;version=KJV Isaiah Berlin, Hume and the Sources of German Anti-Rationalism http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/published_works/ac/hume.pdf Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Baba Metzia, page 59-a http://www.ravhanan.org/uploads/6/5/6/4/65649719/defeating-god-and-defeating-ones-fellow-man-.pdf Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling https://www.religion-online.org/book-chapter/prelude/ E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel https://www.amazon.com/ASPECTS-NOVEL-M-Forster/dp/0156091801 John Miles, Laughing at the Bible, Jonah as Parody https://www.jstor.org/stable/1454356 The Book of Job https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+1&amp;version=KJV The Book of Nahum https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Nahum+1&amp;version=KJV They Will Have to Die Now, James Verini, “Sennacherib’s boast“ https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393652475 The Book of Esther https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Esther+1&amp;version=KJV St. Augustine on Jonah http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1102102.htm Anonymous, Patience, translation by Richard Scott-Robinson http://www.eleusinianm.co.uk/middle-english-literature-retold-in-modern-english/religious-poetry/patience Charles Portis, True Grit https://www.amazon.com/True-Grit-Novel-Charles-Portis/dp/B008PIC86I Daniel Torday, Boomer1 https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250191793 Daniel Torday, The Last Flight of Poxl West https://www.amazon.com/Last-Flight-Poxl-West-Novel/dp/1250081602

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. The Manifesto: Robert Alter, “A Literary Approach to the Bible,” from The Art of Biblical Narrative <a href="https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/robert-alter/the-art-of-biblical-narrative/9780465022557/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/robert-alter/the-art-of-biblical-narrative/9780465022557/</a> The Art: The Book of Jonah <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jonah+1&amp;version=KJV" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jonah+1&amp;version=KJV</a> Works cited: Amy Hungerford, Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion Since 1960 <a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691145754/postmodern-belief" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691145754/postmodern-belief</a> Genesis 38, Judah and Tamar <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+38&amp;version=KJV" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+38&amp;version=KJV</a> Isaiah Berlin, Hume and the Sources of German Anti-Rationalism <a href="http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/published_works/ac/hume.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/published_works/ac/hume.pdf</a> Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Baba Metzia, page 59-a <a href="http://www.ravhanan.org/uploads/6/5/6/4/65649719/defeating-god-and-defeating-ones-fellow-man-.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.ravhanan.org/uploads/6/5/6/4/65649719/defeating-god-and-defeating-ones-fellow-man-.pdf</a> Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling <a href="https://www.religion-online.org/book-chapter/prelude/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.religion-online.org/book-chapter/prelude/</a> E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel <a href="https://www.amazon.com/ASPECTS-NOVEL-M-Forster/dp/0156091801" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/ASPECTS-NOVEL-M-Forster/dp/0156091801</a> John Miles, Laughing at the Bible, Jonah as Parody <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/1454356" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.jstor.org/stable/1454356</a> The Book of Job <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+1&amp;version=KJV" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+1&amp;version=KJV</a> The Book of Nahum <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Nahum+1&amp;version=KJV" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Nahum+1&amp;version=KJV</a> They Will Have to Die Now, James Verini, “Sennacherib’s boast“ <a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393652475" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393652475</a> The Book of Esther <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Esther+1&amp;version=KJV" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Esther+1&amp;version=KJV</a> St. Augustine on Jonah <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1102102.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1102102.htm</a> Anonymous, Patience, translation by Richard Scott-Robinson <a href="http://www.eleusinianm.co.uk/middle-english-literature-retold-in-modern-english/religious-poetry/patience" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.eleusinianm.co.uk/middle-english-literature-retold-in-modern-english/religious-poetry/patience</a> Charles Portis, True Grit <a href="https://www.amazon.com/True-Grit-Novel-Charles-Portis/dp/B008PIC86I" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/True-Grit-Novel-Charles-Portis/dp/B008PIC86I</a> Daniel Torday, Boomer1 <a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250191793" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250191793</a> Daniel Torday, The Last Flight of Poxl West <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Last-Flight-Poxl-West-Novel/dp/1250081602" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Last-Flight-Poxl-West-Novel/dp/1250081602</a>

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