Manifesto!

Jake and Phil are joined by the great poet Tom Sleigh to discuss his essay "To Be Incarnational," on the World War I poetry of David Jones, as well as Tom's poem "In Which a Spider Weaves a Web on My Computer Screen" The Manifesto: Tom Sleigh, To Be Incarnational https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/70066/to-be-incarnational The Art: Tom Sleigh, "In Which a Spider Weaves a Web on My Computer Screen" https://vimeo.com/669317283

Jake and Phil (finally) discuss Flannery O'Connor's Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction, alongside Andre Dubus II's short story Killings The Manifesto: Flannery O'Connor, Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction https://bscc.instructure.com/courses/4608/files/434937/download?download_frd=1 Audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMrveIu0DdE The Art: Andre Dubus II, Killings https://www.uww.edu/documents/library/ersearch/er/moore_g/moore_101/dubuskillings_101_moore.pdf

Jake and Phil are joined by jazz pianist and composer Ethan Iverson to discuss Wynton Marsalis' "What Jazz Is—and Isn't", as well as Marsalis' 1985 album J Mood. The Manifesto: Wynton Marsalis - "What Jazz Is—and Isn't", https://wyntonmarsalis.org/news/entry/music-what-jazz-is-and-isnt The Art: Wynton Marsalis - J Mood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PerIfsVGl_0 Ethan Iverson's website: https://ethaniverson.com/ The track played of Ethan's in the middle of the podcast is The Eternal Verities, off his upcoming album Every Note is True https://store.bluenote.com/products/ethan-iverson-every-note-is-true#:~:text=Pianist%20and%20composer%20Ethan%20Iverson,and%20legendary%20drummer%20Jack%20DeJohnette.

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