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 rel ...
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Whether it be a movie, show, book, or even video games, we all enjoy our own pieces of fiction. On this podcast, we'll dive into them, give reviews, and take a look at how they work from a creative writing perspective.
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Episode 70: Punk and Metal
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Jake and Phil are joined by Nate DiMeo, podcaster and author of the forthcoming The Memory Palace, to discuss the Riot Grrrl Manifesto, Steve Albini's The Problem with Music, and The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years The Manifestos: Kathleen Hanna, The Riot Grrrl Manifesto https://actipedia.org/project/riot-grrrl-manifesto St…
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Episode 69: Should We Bring Children Into Existence?
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Phil and Jake are joined by Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman, the authors of What Are Children For? On Ambivalence and Choice, to discuss David Benatar's 1997 paper "Why It Is Better Never to Come into Existence," alongside Paul Schrader's 2017 film First Reformed. The Manifesto: David Benatar - "Why It Is Better Never to Come into Existence" http…
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Episode 68: The Serious Artist
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Jake and Phil are joined by the poet and critic Alice Gribbin to discuss Ezra Pound's The Serious Artist and Eliot Weinberger's The Life of Tu Fu The Manifesto: Ezra Pound, The Serious Artist https://archive.org/details/literaryessaysof00poun/page/n5/mode/2up The Art: Eliot Weinberger, The Life of Tu Fu https://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-life-of-tu-f…
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Episode 67: Wallace Stegner's Crossing to Safety
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Jake and Phil are joined by Sam Kimbriel, director of the Aspen Institute's Philosophy and Society Initiative, to discuss Wallace Stegner's 1987 novel Crossing to Safety.Door Manifesto! A Podcast
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Episode 66: Hobbits, Goblins and the Very Adult World of Fairy-Stories
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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: htt…
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Episode 65: Orwell and Ukraine
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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-an…
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Episode 64: Power of the Powerless and the Velvet Underground
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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=AJy0L…
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Episode 63: How Money Culture Hurts the American Family and Girls
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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-…
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Episode 62: Last Men and Women: George Scialabba and the Challenge of Modernity
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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…
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Episode 61: Red Music and Mal Waldron
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Jake and Phil discuss Josef Skvorecky's "Red Music," an account of playing jazz under Nazism and Communism, alongside Mal Waldron's "Mal Waldron Plays Erik Satie" The Manifesto: Josef Skvorecky, "Red Music" https://harpers.org/archive/1986/03/red-music/ The Art: Mal Waldron, "Mal Waldron Plays Erik Satie" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juNNxsUXvQw…
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Episode 60: The Palestinian People and the Western Observer
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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." https://philipmetres.comDoor Manifesto! A Podcast
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Episode 59: Israel and Hamas
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Phil asks Jake about the recent conflict in Israel, and they take listener questions.Door Manifesto! A Podcast
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Episode 58: The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu
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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. https://archipelagobooks.org/book/the-enlightenment-of-katzuo-nakamatsu/…
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Episode 57: Some Lying and Some BS
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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-sto…
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Episode 56: The Secular Saint
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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: Mic…
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Episode 55: The Great Mating Debate
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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 Quart…
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Episode 54: Nirvana and The Trials of the Young
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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-th…
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Episode 53: Poe's Law and Philip K. Dick's Faith of Our Fathers
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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 Ne…
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Episode 52: True Believers and the Case of the Writer Turned Congressman
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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 Natu…
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Episode 51: A Public Address, A Colloquium, or Maybe Just a Q&A
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Jake and Phil answer questions from our listeners.Door Manifesto! A Podcast
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Episode 50: El Greco, Picasso, and The Pleasures of Ignorance
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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/collectio…
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Episode 49: Angry Popes and Architecture
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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.…
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Star Wars: Andor - Best Star Wars show so far?
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In this episode, we take a look at the latest Star Wars series to release on Disney Plus: Andor, and how it succeeds in showing us some of the most mature Star Wars content shown so far.Door Jacob Fairfield
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Fictional Writing Ft. Julie Drew
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A bit about Dr. Drew and some of her published work: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/415259.Julie_Drew N.K. Jemisin Interview: https://the1a.org/segments/n-k-jemisin-on-science-fiction-world-building-and-new-york-city/Door Jacob Fairfield
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Episode 48: The Ultimate Revolution
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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%20…
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House of the Dragon - The best fantasy show on TV?
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In this episode, we'll take a look at the Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon, as well as see how it compares to the other fantasy giant, Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power.Door Jacob Fairfield
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The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power - A journey into Middle Earth
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In this episode, we take a look at Rings of Power as we examine what went wrong in this Middle Earth adaptation.Door Jacob Fairfield
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