Episode 57: Some Lying and Some BS
Jake and Phil are joined by Walter Kirn to discuss Kirn's essay "The Bullshit" alongside Mark Twain's "My First Lie and How I Got Out of It" The Manifesto: Walter Kirn, "The Bullshit" https://walterk...
10 Sep 20231h 34min
Episode 56: The Secular Saint
Jake and Phil are joined by Santiago Ramos, a contributing writer to Commonweal Magazine, to discuss Michael Novak's The Secular Saint and the epilogue to Michel Houellebecq's 1998 novel The Elementar...
9 Aug 20231h 35min
Episode 55: The Great Mating Debate
Phil is joined by Becca Rothfeld, BD McClay, and Jon Baskin to discuss Norman Rush's 1991 novel Mating, and whether it offers a roadmap for love in the 21st century. Becca Rothfeld is the nonfiction...
12 Jul 20231h 18min
Episode 54: Nirvana and The Trials of the Young
Phil is joined by the great novelist, short story writer and essayist Mary Gaitskill to discuss Gaitskill's essay "The Trials of the Young" in the most recent Liberties Journal, alongside the Nirvana ...
13 Jun 20231h 20min
Episode 53: Poe's Law and Philip K. Dick's Faith of Our Fathers
Jake and Phil are joined by Gurwinder Bhogal to discuss Poe's Law and Philip K. Dick's Faith of Our Fathers The Manifesto: "Poe's Law" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law The Art: Philip K. Di...
16 Mai 20231h 36min
Episode 52: True Believers and the Case of the Writer Turned Congressman
Jake and Phil are joined by former Michigan Congressman Peter Meijer to discuss longshoreman philosopher Eric Hoffer’s 1951 book, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, and the p...
13 Apr 20231h 51min
Episode 51: A Public Address, A Colloquium, or Maybe Just a Q&A
Jake and Phil answer questions from our listeners.
21 Mar 20231h 9min
Episode 50: El Greco, Picasso, and The Pleasures of Ignorance
Jake and Phil discuss Aldous Huxley's "Meditation on El Greco", and Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. The Manifesto: Aldous Huxley - "Meditation on El Greco" https://cooperative-individualism.or...
22 Feb 20231h 8min
