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Jake and Phil are joined by Joseph Keegin to discuss Nicolás Gómez Dávila‘s “The Authentic Reactionary,” and Chaim Grade’s classic of Yiddish literature: “My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner” The Manifesto: Nicolás Gómez Dávila‘s “The Authentic Reactionary” https://isi.org/modern-age/the-authentic-reactionary/ The Art: Chaim Grade’s “My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner” https://mosaicmagazine.com/response/arts-culture/2020/12/my-quarrel-with-hersh-rasseyner/

Phil is joined by Samuel Moyn to discuss his new book, Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War, alongside Kathe Kollwitz's The Survivors The Manifesto: Samuel Moyn - Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374173708/humane The Art: Kathe Kollwitz, The Survivors https://aestronauts.com/post/114048762630/kathe-kollwitz-the-survivors

Jake and Phil discuss Raymond Chandler's The Simple Art of Murder, alongside Ross MacDonald's novel Black Money. The Manifesto: http://jacksharman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Raymond-Chandler-Simple-Art-of-Murder.pdf The Art: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/105230/black-money-by-ross-macdonald/

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: Scott Beauchamp, Did You Kill Anyone? Reunderstanding My Military Experience as a Critique of Modern Culture Read an excerpt: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/did-you-kill-anyone The Art: Alistair Macleod, "The Closing Down of Summer" https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393341188

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: Pope Francis, Fratelli Tutti http://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20201003_enciclica-fratelli-tutti.html Jackie Sibblies Drury, Fairview https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/jackie-sibblies-drury Other work referenced: Vinson Cunningham, Many and One https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/many-and-one-0

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" The Manifesto: Eugene McCarraher, "A Providentialism Without God: The Case Against Meritocracy" https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/providentialism-without-god The Art: Goya, "The Dream of Reason Produces Monsters" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sleep_of_Reason_Produces_Monsters#/media/File:Francisco_Jos%C3%A9_de_Goya_y_Lucientes_-_The_sleep_of_reason_produces_monsters_(No._43),_from_Los_Caprichos_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg Other works discussed: Eugene McCarraher, The Enchantments of Mammon https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674984615 Michael Young, The Rise of the Meritocracy https://www.routledge.com/The-Rise-of-the-Meritocracy/Young/p/book/9781560007043 Michael J. Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374289980 David Goodhart, Head, Hand, Heart https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Head-Hand-Heart/David-Goodhart/9781982128470 Fredrik deBoer, The Cult of Smart https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250200372 William Deresiewicz, Excellent Sheep https://billderesiewicz.com/books/excellent-sheep/ Alejandro Anreus, Shades of Suffering: Goya's Graphic Imagination https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/shades-suffering Nicholas Penny, The People's Goya https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v26/n18/nicholas-penny/the-people-s-goya Julian Bell, Teeming With Things Unknown https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/10/08/francisco-goya-teeming-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: Herbert Marcuse, "Repressive Tolerance" https://www.marcuse.org/herbert/publications/1960s/1965-repressive-tolerance-fulltext.html The Art: Franz Kafka, "The Judgement" https://www.kafka-online.info/-the-judgement.html

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: Alana Newhouse, Everything is Broken https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/everything-is-broken The Art: Ani DiFranco, Living in Clip https://anidifranco.bandcamp.com/album/living-in-clip Works Mentioned: Eugene McCarraher, Comrade Ruskin - How a Victorian visionary can save communism from Marx https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/comrade-ruskin Rowan Williams – Interiority and Epiphany https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1468-0025.00030 Fiona Williams MTV speech https://hiddenremote.com/2016/08/11/mtv-vmas-tbt-fiona-apples-blunt-speech-still-matters/ Philip Roth, Sabbath's Theater https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/158029/sabbaths-theater-by-philip-roth/

Jake and Phil discuss Jan Kott's "King Lear or Endgame" and George Oppen's "Psalm." The Manifesto: Jan Kott, "King Lear or Endgame" https://t.co/L9FRGoRD3L?amp=1 The Art: George Oppen's "Psalm" https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/29449/psalm-56d212ff620c5

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: Carlos Lozada, What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/What-Were-We-Thinking/Carlos-Lozada/9781982145620 The Art: Garth Greenwell, "Decent People" https://thesewaneereview.com/articles/decent-people

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 https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814254899.html The Art: Charles Ridley, 1941, Schichlegruber Doing the Lambeth Walk (assisted by the Gestapo 'Hep-Cats') https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYdmk3GP3iM Works discussed Jesse Walker, The Sultan of Sewers: William Burroughs' anti-authoritarian vision https://reason.com/2014/06/04/the-sultan-of-sewers/ Naked Lunch https://groveatlantic.com/book/naked-lunch/ Hunter S. Thompson, The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved https://grantland.com/features/looking-back-hunter-s-thompson-classic-story-kentucky-derby/ Jacob Siegel, Digital fascism: anti-PC idol-smashing isn’t just a joke https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/internet-alt-right-fascists Susan Sontag, Fascinating Fascism https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1975/02/06/fascinating-fascism/ Jack Kerouac, On The Road https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/300451/on-the-road-by-jack-kerouac/ Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain, Please Kill Me https://pleasekillme.com/shop/autographed-paperback-20-anniversary-edition-please-kill-me/ Jacob Siegel, Send Anarchists, Guns and Money https://thebaffler.com/salvos/anarchists-guns-and-money-siegel Jon Baskin, The Unbearable: Toward an Antifascist Aesthetic https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/08/14/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" The Manifesto: Conrad, The Preface https://www.gutenberg.org/files/17731/17731-h/17731-h.htm#link2H_PREF The Art: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1968/07/20/mosbys-memoirs

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 Ernst Junger, On Pain https://www.amazon.com/Pain-Ernst-J%C3%BCnger/dp/0914386409 The Art Elliot Ackerman, A Battle in Fallujah, Revisted https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/25/opinion/memorial-day-falluja.html (adapted from Places and Names) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/580119/places-and-names-by-elliot-ackerman/ 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 https://groveatlantic.com/book/what-it-is-like-to-go-to-war/ Sam Adler-Bell, Surviving Amazon https://logicmag.io/bodies/surviving-amazon/ Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society Jacob Siegel, Send Anarchists, Guns and Money https://thebaffler.com/salvos/anarchists-guns-and-money-siegel Elliot Ackerman, Red Dress in Black and White https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/576747/red-dress-in-black-and-white-by-elliot-ackerman/

Jake and Phil are joined by Paul Berman to discuss The Plague, by Albert Camus. The Manifesto: Albert Camus, The Plague (the second half of Part II) The Art: Albert Camus, The Plague (the second half of Part II) Works Discussed Paul Berman, "Modern Times" https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/paul-berman-modern-times-1 Paul Berman, Terror and Liberalism https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393325553 Albert Camus, The Rebel Iris Murdoch, "The Existentialist Hero" https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/330442/existentialists-and-mystics-by-iris-murdoch/ Dostoevsky, The Underground Man Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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.

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/

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&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&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&version=KJV The Book of Nahum https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Nahum+1&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&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

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

Jake and Phil are joined by Alex Brook Lynn to discuss the Stuckists’ Manifesto and Julio Cortázar’s The Pursuer Manifesto: The Stuckists Manifesto http://www.stuckism.com/stuckistmanifesto.html#manifest Art: Julio Cortázar, The Pursuer https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/32198/blow-up-by-julio-cortazar/ References: Jakes’s sartorial splendor https://www.instagram.com/p/B1otkYalkBM/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link The Stuckists, “An Open Letter to Sir Nicolas Serota” https://www.stuckism.com/serotaletter.html Jonathan Jones, "The Stuckists Are Enemies of Art" https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2009/oct/01/art-stuckist-manifesto Damien Hirst, For the Love of God https://www.reuters.com/article/us-arts-hirst-skull-idUSL3080962220070830 Damien Hirst, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living http://www.damienhirst.com/the-physical-impossibility-of Stuckists, Critique of Damien Hirst https://391.org/manifestos/2000-stuckist-critique-of-damien-hirst-childish-thomson/ Gordon Matta Clark, Anarchitect http://m.bronxmuseum.org/exhibitions/gordon-matta-clark-anarchitect Arthur Danto, “The Appreciation and Interpretation of Works of Art,” “The End of Art” http://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-philosophical-disenfranchisement-of-art/9780231132268 Yoyoi Kasuma https://images2.minutemediacdn.com/image/upload/c_crop,h_562,w_1000,x_0,y_52/f_auto,q_auto,w_1100/v1555002285/shape/mentalfloss/kusama.jpg Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/32202/hopscotch-by-julio-cortazar/ Sonny Rollins, The Real Charlie Parker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeTgXnD7bGc Stanley Crouch, Kansas City Lightning https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062005595/kansas-city-lightning Ralph Ellison, “On Bird, Bird-Watching, and Jazz” https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/46135/shadow-and-act-by-ralph-ellison/ St. Augustine, Confessions https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3296/3296-h/3296-h.htm Bernard d’Espagnat, Reality and the Physicist: Knowledge, Duration, and the Quantum World https://www.amazon.com/Reality-Physicist-Knowledge-Duration-Quantum/dp/0521338468 Charlie Parker, Loverman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJrhOjvDbtg Rowan Williams, On Augustine https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/on-augustine-9781472925299/ David Jones, “Art and Sacrament” https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571339501-epoch-and-artist.html Paul Klee https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Klee,_paul,_angelus_novus,_1920.jpg Mondrian http://www.theartstory.org/images20/works/mondrian_piet_4.jpg Julio Cortázar, Literature Class https://www.ndbooks.com/book/literature-class/

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 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&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 are joined by essayist and fiction-writer Victoria Brown of Rollins College to discuss Derek Walcott’s The Muse of History alongside Mavis Gallant’s The Latehomecomer The Manifesto: Derek Walcott, The Muse of History http://www.worldcat.org/title/what-the-twilight-says-essays/oclc/38976188&referer=brief_results The Art: Mavis Gallant, “The Latehomecomer” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1974/07/08/the-latehomecomer Works Cited: Derek Walcott, “Bleecker Street, Summer” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57109/bleecker-street-summer Derek Walcott, “Hic Jacet” https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374537579 Derek Walcott, “Air” http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/2640/air.html VS Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/119600/a-house-for-mr-biswas-by-v-s-naipaul VS Naipaul, Miguel Street https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/119625/miguel-street-by-vs-naipaul Derek Walcott, “The Bounty” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48318/the-bounty Clive James on Sartre, from Cultural Amnesia https://www.amazon.com/Cultural-Amnesia-Necessary-Memories-History/dp/039333354X Vico, The New Science https://www.amazon.com/Science-Penguin-Classics-Giambattista-Vico/dp/0140435697 Derek Walcott, The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1992/walcott/lecture/ Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place https://www.amazon.com/Small-Place-Jamaica-Kincaid/dp/0374527075 The novellas of Joseph Roth https://www.amazon.com/Joseph-Roth/e/B001HNKTLE Apogee Journal https://apogeejournal.org/ Audio Clips Eddie Izzard, Dressed to Kill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9W1zTEuKLY Derek Walcott reading from The Bounty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCIMvohjODY Walcott on his life and work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_6mgbRSUzo&list=PLfngbdaGfrrM7IziPezFDTsgxeShxysMt

Jake and Phil discuss Hugo Ball's 1916 Dada Manifesto, as well as Public Enemy's 1988 album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. The Manifesto: Hugo Ball, Dada Manifesto https://t.co/ZpW3qN32KO The Art: Public Enemy, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back Works Referenced: Photo of Hugo Ball in his costume at the Cabaret Voltaire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ball#/media/File:Hugo_Ball_Cabaret_Voltaire.jpg Hugo Ball, Karawane https://poets.org/poem/karawane Marcel Duchamp, Fountain https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/duchamp-fountain-t07573 Tristan Tzara, Dada Manifesto 1918 http://writing.upenn.edu/library/Tzara_Dada-Manifesto_1918.pdf Philip Mann, Hugo Ball: An Intellectual Biography Debbie Lewer, Hugo Ball, Iconoclasm, and the Birth of Dada https://www.jstor.org/stable/25650841 Walter Laqueur, Weimar: A Cultural History Jacob Siegel and Angela Nagle, Internet Trolls, Online Cesspools, and Their Real-World Effects https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/247110/internet-alt-right-fascists Josef Pieper, No One Could Have Known Adam Bradley and Andrew DuBois, The Anthology of Rap Luigi Russolo, The Art of Noises https://monoskop.org/images/0/09/Russolo_Luigi_The_Art_of_Noises.pdf Terminator X interview with Will Hernandez of WHO?MAG TV http://www.whomag.net/terminator-x/

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&lang=en& 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&lang=en& 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

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 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&t=917s Robert Pinsky reciting "Shirt" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI8DvfM0VCs

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

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&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 are joined by Olivia Garard (@teaandtactics) of The Strategy Bridge (https://thestrategybridge.org/editorial-team/2016/8/16/olivia-a-garard) to discuss Oulipo member Anne Garréta's "On Bookselves" and Guy Debord’s “The Naked City” Works cited: R.O. Kwon, In Defense of Keeping Books Spine In https://lithub.com/in-defense-of-keeping-books-spine-in/ Anne Garréta, On Bookselves http://oulipo.net/fr/on-bookselves Wittgenstein's private language argument https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/private-language/ Borges, The Library of Babel https://libraryofbabel.info/libraryofbabel.html Daniel Dennett, Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Intuition-Pumps-And-Other-Tools-for-Thinking/ Phil Klay, What We're Fighting For https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/opinion/sunday/what-were-fighting-for.html Michel Houellebecq's face https://s1.lemde.fr/image/2015/01/07/534x0/4550663_7_8cd6_michel-houellebecq-en-septembre-2014_68730539b00035181bbb264f4a38e9e9.jpg Guy Debord, The Naked City https://paulwalshphotographyblog.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/the-naked-city/ Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm Michel de Certeu, The Practice of Everyday Life https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520271456/the-practice-of-everyday-life Marc Auge, Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity https://www.amazon.com/Non-Places-Introduction-Supermodernity-Marc-Auge/dp/1844673111 Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation https://www.press.umich.edu/9900/simulacra_and_simulation Isaac Babel, Guy de Maupaussant https://rosswolfe.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/isaak-babel-complete-works.pdf Audio Clip: Method Man at Def Jam offices in 1994 https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=BWml7yoFwHA

Jake and Phil overcome audio difficulties to discuss Jean Amery's "Resentments" and Andre Dubus II's short story "A Father's Story." Works cited: Jean Amery, At the Mind’s Limits https://rosswolfe.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/jean-amery-at-the-minds-limits-contemplations-by-a-survivor-on-auschwitz-and-its-realities.pdf Camus on Scheller’s definition of resentment: The Rebel https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/23475/the-rebel-by-albert-camus/9780679733843 Portraits of Reconciliation https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/06/magazine/06-pieter-hugo-rwanda-portraits.html Rwanda and the NY Times https://africasacountry.com/2014/04/rwanda-the-genocide-must-live-on Derrida, ‘To Forgive: The Unforgivable and the Imprescriptible’ https://eclass.uoa.gr/modules/document/file.php/PPP668/%CE%97%20%CF%83%CF%85%CE%B3%CF%87%CF%8E%CF%81%CE%B7%CF%83%CE%B7/Derrida%2C%20J.%2C%20To%20Forgive.%20The%20Unforgivable%20%26%20the%20Imprescrible%2C%20pp.%2021-51.pdf GK Chesterton, “The Chief Mourner of Marne” https://harpers.org/archive/1925/05/the-chief-mourner-of-marne/ Fred Alford, “Jean Amery: Resentment as Ethic and Ontology” https://philpapers.org/rec/ALFJAR Andre Dubus II, “A Father’s Story” http://www.mbird.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/AndreDubus_AFathersStory.pdf Audio Clips: Joel Osteen, “Living Guilt Free” Brian Stevenson interview You should know the final one.

Jake and Phil discuss Alasdair MacIntyre's "Is Patriotism a Virtue?" and the story of the November 11, 1921 burial of the Unknown Soldier, as told by Jonathan Ebel in his book GI Messiahs Works referred to in this episode: Alasdair MacIntyre, “Is Patriotism A Virtue” https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/bitstream/handle/1808/12398/Is%20Patriotism%20a%20Virtue-1984.pdf Abu Bakr ibn Tufayl, Hayy ibn Yaqzan http://www.marcresource.org/ibn-tufayls-hayy-ibn-yaqzan/ Peter Singer, “The Drowning Child and the Expanding Circle” https://www.utilitarian.net/singer/by/199704--.htm Bernard Williams, “A Critique of Utilitarianism” http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/political-philosophy/utilitarianism-and-against?format=PB&isbn=9780521098229 Ralph Ellison “The Little Man at Chehaw Station” https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/46137/the-collected-essays-of-ralph-ellison-by-ralph-ellison/9780812968262/ Vasily Grossman, A Writer at War https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/72422/a-writer-at-war-by-vasily-grossman-edited-and-translated-by-antony-beevor-and-luba-vinogradova/9780307275332/ John Gray, Two Faces of Liberalism https://thenewpress.com/books/two-faces-of-liberalism Ta-Nehesi Coates, I’m Not Black, I’m Kanye https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/im-not-black-im-kanye/559763/ George Orwell, “Notes on Nationalism” http://orwell.ru/library/essays/nationalism/english/e_nat Gregory Pardlo, Air Traffic http://www.pardlo.net/books Aris Roussinos https://www.vice.com/en_us/contributor/aris-roussinos Valeria Luiselli, Difficult Forgiveness https://www.guernicamag.com/difficult-forgiveness/ Jonathan Ebel, GI Messiahs https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300176704/gi-messiahs Jesus Christ and the American Soldier 2nd version Bumper Sticker https://www.zazzle.com/jesus_christ_and_the_american_soldier_2nd_version_bumper_sticker-128506846244291909 Peter Lucier, Not Your Messiah https://therevealer.org/not-your-messiah/ Anatole Broyard, Kafka Was the Rage https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/20086/kafka-was-the-rage-by-anatole-broyard/9780679781264/ Audio clips: Independence Day (1996) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t1IK_9apWs Charles Olson, Maximus to Gloucester, Letter 27 [withheld] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAYxpSjkyAg Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmW0SF5gYEk

Jake and Phil side with the madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels and skeptics on this episode, discussing Yevgeny Zamyatin's “On Literature, Revolution, Entropy, and Other Matters,” alongside the paintings Composition VI and Composition VII, by Vasily Kandinsky. Works referenced in Episode 6 Yevgeny Zamyatin, “On Literature, Revolution, Entropy, and Other Matters” http://evildrclam.blogspot.com/2008/11/on-literature-revolution-entropy-and.html Yevgeny Zamyatin, We https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/17201/we/ Alistair Hamilton, The Appeal of Fascism https://www.amazon.com/Appeal-Fascism-Study-Intellectuals-1919-45/dp/0218514263/ Isaiah Berlin, Russian Thinkers https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/13561/russian-thinkers/ Lawrence Joseph, So Where Are We? https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374266677 Paul Scharre, Army of None http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Army-of-None/ Kenneth Payne, Strategy, Evolution, and War http://press.georgetown.edu/book/georgetown/strategy-evolution-and-war Mitch Hedburg, Tennis https://twitter.com/M_Hedberg/status/174677445432188928 Isaiah Berlin, The Origins of Cultural History: Vico versus Descartes https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/origins-cultural-history-2-geisteswissenschaft-and-natural-sciences-vico-versus-descartes Vasily Kandinsky, Composition VI, 1913 https://www.wassilykandinsky.net/work-35.php Vasily Kandinsky, Composition VII, 1913 https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/composition-vii/CQHOKgpWcL_UPA?hl=en Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/292003/swanns-way-by-marcel-proust/9780142437964/ Vasily Kandinsky, Point and Line to Plane https://www.wassilykandinsky.net/book-117.php Vasily Kandinsky, The Spiritual in Art https://librivox.org/concerning-the-spiritual-in-art-by-wassily-kandinsky/

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

Special Guest: Harry Seigel.