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