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Jake and Phil are joined by the novelist and chronicler of post-secular religious movements, Tara Isabella Burton, to discuss J.R.R. Tolkien's 1939 essay “On Fairy-Stories” and Christina Rossetti's 1862 poem, "Goblin Market."
The manifesto:
https://ieas-szeged.hu/downtherabbithole/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Tolkien-On-Fairy-Stories.pdf
The Art:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44996/goblin-market
Tara's new novel, Here In Avalon:
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Here-in-Avalon/Tara-Isabella-Burton/9781982170097 -
Phil and Jake are joined by the Matt Gallagher, author of Daybreak, to discuss George Orwell's "Looking Back on the Spanish War", and Benjamin Busch's photographs from Ukraine, "Nine Dialogues: Conflict in Context"
The Manifesto:
George Orwell, "Looking Back on the Spanish War"
https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/looking-back-on-the-spanish-war/
The Art:
Benjamin Busch, "Nine Dialogues: Conflict in Context"
https://www.wlajournal.com/copy-of-busch-gallery
Ben's hair:
https://lthumb.lisimg.com/939/13342939.jpg?width=280&sharpen=true -
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Jake and Phil are joined by the novelist and essayist Jared Marcel Pollen to discuss Vaclav Havel’s “The Power of the Powerless” and The Velvet Underground’s second album, White Light/White Heat
The Manifesto:
https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/wp-content/uploads/1979/01/the-power-of-the-powerless.pdf
The Art:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJy0LP8iYPg&list=PLaVHibd49QFIsKywss9Jh0rati5skWEYD
Jared's essay, The Metaphysician-in-Chief, in Liberties
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Jake and Phil discuss "How Money Culture Hurts the American Family," by Ian Marcus Corbin, and episode seven of the first season of Girls
The Manifesto:
Ian Marcus Corbin, "How Money Culture Hurts the American Family"
https://www.capita.org/money-culture
Girls, Welcome to Bushwick a.k.a. The Crackcident
https://www.hbo.com/girls/season-1/7-welcome-to-bushwick-a-k-a-the-crackcident -
Jake and Phil are joined live at Fairfield University by the great critic and essayist George Scialabba to discuss Last Men and Women
At a time of war, impending ecological disaster, and partisan rage, our commitments to the modern, liberal order are being questioned like never before. Do we understand ourselves best as individuals or as members of a community? Must we renew our absolute commitment to political freedoms, or accept greater state control to deal with the dangers and allures of new technologies? Should the future be post-liberal, neo-liberal, or some other, perhaps more frightening and electrifying possibility? For the past forty-four years the critic George Scialabba has been engaging in arguments with both the critics and proponents of modernity, staking out a commitment to liberty and mass democracy even in light of powerful challenges.
On December 4th at 4:30pm George Scialabba will join Phil Klay and Jacob Siegel for a live recording of Manifesto! A Podcast. The three will discuss the price we pay for modern liberalism, and George’s commitment to it nonetheless (the essay “Last Men and Women,” originally for Commonweal Magazine and included in his latest book, Only A Voice, published by Verso Books, outlines the basics of his argument)
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/last-men-and-women
George Scialabba is the quintessential critic’s critic, an outrageously learned and subtle thinker whose stylish, witty and elegantly argued reviews have served as guides to the modern age for generations of writers and intellectuals. Christopher Hitchens, Norman Rush, James Wood, and Vivian Gornick have all declared themselves devotees—while Richard Rorty declared his essays “models of moral inquiry.” An award-winning essayist and critic, his writing has appeared in the Nation, Dissent, bookforum, Riritan, n+1, and the Boston Review among many others. He is a Contributing Editor at the Baffler and the author of six essay collections and a memoir, How to Be Depressed. -
Jake and Phil discuss Josef Skvorecky's "Red Music," an account of playing jazz under Nazism and Communism, alongside Mal Waldron's "Mal Waldron Plays Erik Satie"
The Manifesto:
Josef Skvorecky, "Red Music"
https://harpers.org/archive/1986/03/red-music/
The Art:
Mal Waldron, "Mal Waldron Plays Erik Satie"
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Phil talks with poet and translator Philip Metres about the current conflict, the position of a Western observer in regards to what is happening in Gaza, his poem "Remorse for Temperate Speech," as well as his book "Returning to Jaffa."
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Phil asks Jake about the recent conflict in Israel, and they take listener questions.
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Phil is joined by Sam Kimbriel, director of the Aspen Institute's Philosophy and Society Initiative, and Jennifer Shyue, a Spanish language literary translator, to discuss her recently published translation of Augusto Higa Oshiro's The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu.
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Jake and Phil are joined by Walter Kirn to discuss Kirn's essay "The Bullshit" alongside Mark Twain's "My First Lie and How I Got Out of It"
The Manifesto:
Walter Kirn, "The Bullshit"
https://walterkirn.substack.com/p/the-bullshit
The Art:
Mark Twain's "My First Lie and How I Got Out of It"
https://americanliterature.com/author/mark-twain/short-story/my-first-lie-and-how-i-got-out-of-it -
Jake and Phil are joined by Santiago Ramos, a contributing writer to Commonweal Magazine, to discuss Michael Novak's The Secular Saint and the epilogue to Michel Houellebecq's 1998 novel The Elementary Particles.
The Manifesto:
Michael Novak, The Secular Saint
https://www.amazon.com/theology-radical-politics-Michael-Novak/dp/B0006BZ4H2
The Art:
Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles, Epilogue
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/83039/the-elementary-particles-by-michel-houellebecq/ -
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 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"
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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 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 answer questions from our listeners.
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Jake and Phil discuss Aldous Huxley's "Meditation on El Greco", and Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
The Manifesto:
Aldous Huxley - "Meditation on El Greco"
https://cooperative-individualism.org/huxley-aldous_meditation-on-el-greco-pleasure-that-comes-from-ignorance.pdf
The Art:
Picasso - Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79766?sovreferrer=theme&themeid=5135 -
Jake and Phil are joined by John Davis, an environmental and architectural historian at the Knowlton School at Ohio State, to discuss Pascendi Dominici Gregis, Pope Pius X's encyclical against the modernists, and Antoni Gaudí’s La Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona, Spain.
The Manifesto:
Pascendi Dominici Gregis, Pope Pius X
https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-x/en/encyclicals/documents/hfp-xenc19070908pascendi-dominici-gregis.html
Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família
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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/ -
Phil is joined by Sam Kimbriel, the founding director of Aspen's Philosophy & Society Initiative, to discuss Sam's essay "What the Democracy Engineering Complex Misses"
The Manifesto:
Sam Kimbriel, What the Democracy Engineering Complex Misses
https://wisdomofcrowds.live/the-democracy-engineering-complex/ - Visa fler