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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/