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" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRT6sYzVN78

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.

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?sov_referrer=theme&theme_id=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/hf_p-x_enc_19070908_pascendi-dominici-gregis.html Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família https://sagradafamilia.org/en/

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/

Jake and Phil discuss Wallace Stevens' "Sunday Morning" and Gerard Manley Hopkins' "God's Grandeur." The Manifesto: Wallace Stevens' "Sunday Morning" https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/13261/sunday-morning The Art: Gerard Manley Hopkins' "God's Grandeur." https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44395/gods-grandeur Works referenced: Wallace Stevens, The Idea of Order at Key West https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43431/the-idea-of-order-at-key-west Wallace Stevens, Anecdote of the Jar https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/14575/anecdote-of-the-jar Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45236/thirteen-ways-of-looking-at-a-blackbird Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Windhover https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44402/the-windhover Gerard Manley Hopkins, No Worst https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44398/no-worst-there-is-none-pitched-past-pitch-of-grief Anne Carpenter, Theo-Poetics: Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Risk of Art and Being https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268023782/theo-poetics/