
Episode 33: The Dream of Meritocracy Produces Monsters
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 Go...
13 Apr 20211h 29min

Episode 32: Repressive Tolerance and The Judgement
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 T...
16 Mar 20212h 7min

Episode 31: Everything is Broken
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://...
12 Feb 20211h 53min

Episode 30: King Lear or Endgame or Psalm
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" ht...
4 Jan 20211h 14min

Episode 29: What Were We Thinking
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 Cleannes...
3 Des 20202h 2min

Episode 28: They Will Eat the CIA Men First
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, ...
29 Sep 20201h 40min

Episode 27: The Owl of Minerva Trots at Dusk
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/...
13 Aug 20202h 1min

Episode 26: On Pain and on Fallujah Revisited
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 Manifest...
6 Jul 20201h 32min



















