Episode 65: Orwell and Ukraine
Phil and Jake are joined by the Matt Gallagher, author of Daybreak, to discuss George Orwell's "Looking Back on the Spanish War", and Benjamin Busch's photographs from Ukraine, "Nine Dialogues: Confli...
30 Mar 20241h 11min
Episode 64: Power of the Powerless and the Velvet Underground
Jake and Phil are joined by the novelist and essayist Jared Marcel Pollen to discuss Vaclav Havel’s “The Power of the Powerless” and The Velvet Underground’s second album, White Light/White Heat The ...
28 Feb 20241h 22min
Episode 63: How Money Culture Hurts the American Family and Girls
Jake and Phil discuss "How Money Culture Hurts the American Family," by Ian Marcus Corbin, and episode seven of the first season of Girls The Manifesto: Ian Marcus Corbin, "How Money Culture Hurts t...
26 Jan 20241h 12min
Episode 62: Last Men and Women: George Scialabba and the Challenge of Modernity
Jake and Phil are joined live at Fairfield University by the great critic and essayist George Scialabba to discuss Last Men and Women At a time of war, impending ecological disaster, and partisan rag...
7 Des 20231h 20min
Episode 61: Red Music and Mal Waldron
Jake and Phil discuss Josef Skvorecky's "Red Music," an account of playing jazz under Nazism and Communism, alongside Mal Waldron's "Mal Waldron Plays Erik Satie" The Manifesto: Josef Skvorecky, "Red...
27 Nov 20231h 8min
Episode 60: The Palestinian People and the Western Observer
Phil talks with poet and translator Philip Metres about the current conflict, the position of a Western observer in regards to what is happening in Gaza, his poem "Remorse for Temperate Speech," as we...
30 Okt 20231h 1min
Episode 59: Israel and Hamas
Phil asks Jake about the recent conflict in Israel, and they take listener questions.
28 Okt 20231h 53min
Episode 58: The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu
Phil is joined by Sam Kimbriel, director of the Aspen Institute's Philosophy and Society Initiative, and Jennifer Shyue, a Spanish language literary translator, to discuss her recently published trans...
27 Sep 202331min
