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:

The Art:

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:

Jackie Sibblies Drury, Fairview

Other work referenced:

Vinson Cunningham, Many and One

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"

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Other works discussed:

Michael Young, The Rise of the Meritocracy

Michael J. Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit

David Goodhart, Head, Hand, Heart

Fredrik deBoer, The Cult of Smart

William Deresiewicz, Excellent Sheep

Alejandro Anreus, Shades of Suffering: Goya's Graphic Imagination

Nicholas Penny, The People's Goya

Julian Bell, Teeming With Things Unknown

Jake and Phil are joined by Geoff Shullenberg of Outsider Theory to discuss Herbert Marcuse's "Repressive Tolerance" and Franz Kafka's "The Judgement".

The Manifesto:

The Art:

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:

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Works Mentioned:

Rowan Williams – Interiority and Epiphany

Fiona Williams MTV speech

Philip Roth, Sabbath's Theater

Jake and Phil discuss Jan Kott's "King Lear or Endgame" and George Oppen's "Psalm."

The Manifesto:

Jan Kott, "King Lear or Endgame"

The Art:

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:

The Art:

This week Jake and Phil are joined by special guest Jesse Walker of Reason Magazine to discuss William S. Burroughs The Revised Boy Scout Manual and Charles Ridley's short anti-Nazi propaganda film,  Schichlegruber Doing the Lambeth Walk (assisted by the Gestapo 'Hep-Cats')    

The Manifesto: William S. Burroughs, The Revised Boy Scout Manual

The Art: Charles Ridley, 1941, Schichlegruber Doing the Lambeth Walk (assisted by the Gestapo 'Hep-Cats')  

Works discussed

Jesse Walker, The Sultan of Sewers: William Burroughs' anti-authoritarian vision

Naked Lunch

Hunter S. Thompson, The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved

Jacob Siegel, Digital fascism: anti-PC idol-smashing isn’t just a joke

Susan Sontag, Fascinating Fascism

Jack Kerouac, On The Road

Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain, Please Kill Me

Jacob Siegel, Send Anarchists, Guns and Money

Jon Baskin, The Unbearable: Toward an Antifascist Aesthetic

Phil and Jake are joined by Ian Marcus Corbin to discuss Joseph Conrad's Preface and Saul Bellow's "Mosby's Memoirs"

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The Art:

Jake and Phil are joined by Elliot Ackerman to discuss Ernst Junger’s 1934 essay On Pain, alongside Elliot’s A Battle in Fallujah, Revisited, an excerpt of his memoir, Places and Names.

The Manifesto

The Art

Works cited

Junger, Storm of Steel

Junger, Battle as an Inner Experience

Junger, Total Mobilization

Junger, The Worker

Junger, Eumeswil

Junger, On the Marble Cliffs

Karl Marlantes, What It Is Like to Go to War

Sam Adler-Bell, Surviving Amazon

Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society

Jacob Siegel, Send Anarchists, Guns and Money

Elliot Ackerman, Red Dress in Black and White