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August 28, 2025 Episode 82: The Dark Mountains of Madness
Jake and Phil are joined by Roy Scranton, author of Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress, to discuss the Dark Mountain Manifesto by Paul Kingsnorth and Dougald Hine and The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft.
The Manifesto:
The Dark Mountain Manifesto
https://dark-mountain.net/about/manifesto/
The Art:
HP Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cc.aspx
Roy Scranton, Impasse
https://www.sup.org/books/literary-studies-and-literature/impasse
1 hr 41 min
July 29, 2025 Episode 81: In the Moral Wilderness with MacIntyre and Camus
Jake and Phil discuss Alasdair MacIntyre’s Notes from the Moral Wilderness and Camus’ short story The Guest
The Manifesto:
Alasdair MacIntyre, Notes from the Moral Wilderness
https://www.scribd.com/document/123091458/Notes-from-the-Moral-Wilderness-Alasdair-MacIntyre
The Art:
Camus, The Guest
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1957/12/the-guest/642533/
1 hr 8 min
June 28, 2025 Episode 80: Thomas Mann and Abraham Lincoln in Wartime
Phil is joined by Morten Hoi Jensen, literary critic and author of the forthcoming "The Master of Contradictions
Thomas Mann and the Making of The Magic Mountain," to discuss Thomas Mann's 1914 "Thoughts in Wartime" and Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
The Manifesto:
Thomas Mann, "Thoughts in Wartime"
https://www.nyrb.com/products/reflections-of-a-nonpolitical-man
The Art: Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address
https://www.nps.gov/linc/learn/historyculture/lincoln-second-inaugural.htm
To pre-order Morten's book:
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300233742/the-master-of-contradictions/
1 hr 17 min
May 27, 2025 Episode 79: Kitsch, Pop, and Democratic Art
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
1 hr 21 min
May 01, 2025 Episode 78: Reflections on the Atom Bomb
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
1 hr 6 min
March 27, 2025 Episode 77: Fascist Apologetics and the Memoirs of an Anti-Semite
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
1 hr 38 min
February 27, 2025 Episode 76: Against Poets
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
1 hr 11 min
January 25, 2025 Episode 75: American Honor and the Iliad
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
1 hr 13 min
December 21, 2024 Episode 74: Christmas Poetry and the Pogues
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
53 min
November 26, 2024 Episode 73: Is America Ready for a Religious Revival?
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/
1 hr 31 min

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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,…