Manifesto!

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" 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/