Manifesto!

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/

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