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Episode 90: Belonging in the Modern World
Jun 16, 2026
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Episode 89: Madame Murdoch
May 28, 2026
1h 12m 58s
Episode 88: Suprematism and the poetry of Ukraine
Apr 29, 2026
1h 12m 28s
Episode 87: The Information State
Mar 25, 2026
1h 14m 53s
Episode 86: Spacers, Fictosexuals and Freaks
Mar 4, 2026
1h 18m 32s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/16/26 | Episode 90: Belonging in the Modern World | Phil and Jake are joined by the philosopher Ian Marcus Corbin, whose new book To Arrive Where We Started: Belonging in the Modern World, is out today. We discuss Nancy Fraser and bell hooks. The Manifesto: Nancy Fraser, "From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump--and Beyond" https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/11/progressive-neoliberalism-trump-beyond/ The Art: bell hooks, "Habits of the Heart" https://www.amazon.com/Belonging-Culture-Place-bell-hooks/dp/041596816X Ian's new book: To Arrive Where We Started: Belonging in the Modern World https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300263626/to-arrive-where-we-started/ | — | ||||||
| 5/28/26 | Episode 89: Madame Murdoch✨ | philosophyliterature+3 | Jenn Frey | University of VirginiaIris Murdoch+1 | — | Iris MurdochMadame Bovary+3 | Fairfield University | 1h 12m 58s | |
| 4/29/26 |  Episode 88: Suprematism and the poetry of Ukraine✨ | SuprematismUkrainian poetry+4 | Vladislav Davidzon | The Manifesto of Suprematism | — | SuprematismKazimir Malevich+4 | — | 1h 12m 28s | |
| 3/25/26 |  Episode 87: The Information State✨ | disinformationdigital control+3 | Jake | MacmillanTHE DISINFORMATION STATE | — | disinformationdigital control+4 | — | 1h 14m 53s | |
| 3/4/26 | Episode 86: Spacers, Fictosexuals and Freaks✨ | internet culturefictosexuality+4 | Katherine Dee | The Fictosexual ManifestoAye and Gomorrah... | — | fictosexualmanifesto+5 | — | 1h 18m 32s | |
| 11/21/25 | Episode 85: Zarathustra and Judge Holden✨ | NietzscheCormac McCarthy+4 | Aaron Gwyn | University of North Carolina-CharlotteThus Spoke Zarathustra+2 | — | NietzscheZarathustra+5 | — | 1h 42m 52s | |
| 10/27/25 | Episode 84: Philip Roth and Ecclesiastes✨ | Philip RothEcclesiastes+3 | Phil | CommentaryBible Gateway+2 | — | Philip RothWriting American Fiction+3 | — | 1h 04m 10s | |
| 9/29/25 | Episode 83: Resist and Howl✨ | anti-war manifestocivil liberties+3 | Amy Sohn | Poetry FoundationThe Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age+2 | — | anti-warmanifesto+5 | — | 1h 20m 14s | |
| 8/28/25 | Episode 82: The Dark Mountains of Madness✨ | climate changeliterature+3 | Roy Scranton | Dark Mountain ManifestoThe Call of Cthulhu+1 | — | Dark Mountain ManifestoRoy Scranton+3 | — | 1h 40m 19s | |
| 7/29/25 | Episode 81: In the Moral Wilderness with MacIntyre and Camus✨ | moral philosophyliterature+4 | — | Notes from the Moral WildernessThe Guest | — | moral wildernessCamus+5 | — | 1h 07m 33s | |
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| 6/28/25 | Episode 80: Thomas Mann and Abraham Lincoln in Wartime✨ | Thomas MannAbraham Lincoln+3 | Morten Hoi Jensen | New York Review BooksNational Park Service+4 | — | Thomas MannAbraham Lincoln+5 | — | 1h 16m 55s | |
| 5/27/25 | Episode 79: Kitsch, Pop, and Democratic Art | Jake and Phil discuss Clement Greenberg's 1939 "Kitsch and the Avant-Garde" alongside Taylor Swift's "I Knew You Were Trouble" and Leonard Cohen's "Chelsea Hotel No. 2" The Manifesto: Clement Greenberg, "Avant-Garde and Kitsch" https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1606923282/slcschoolsorg/wumlyaskvhhzawsvbbzc/Avant-GardeandKitsch.pdf The Art: Taylor Swift, "I Knew You Were Trouble" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNoKguSdy4Y Leonard Cohen, "Chelsea Hotel No. 2" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWZo7UmCbBc | — | ||||||
| 5/1/25 | Episode 78: Reflections on the Atom Bomb | Jake and Phil discuss Teilhard de Chardin's 1946 Some Reflections on the Spiritual Repercussions of the Atom Bomb and Charles Mingus' "Oh Lord Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb on Me," off of his 1962 album Oh Yeah. The Manifesto: Teilhard de Chardin - "Some Reflections on the Spiritual Repercussions of the Atom Bomb" https://www.religion-online.org/book-chapter/chapter-8-some-reflections-on-the-spiritual-repercussions-of-the-atom-bomb/ The Art: Charles Mingus - "Oh Lord Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb on Me" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaeVLd4G1Zg | — | ||||||
| 3/27/25 | Episode 77: Fascist Apologetics and the Memoirs of an Anti-Semite | Jake and Phil discuss David Jones 1939 essay on Hitler, courtesy of Thomas Dilworth's "David Jones and Fascism," alongside Gregor von Rezzori's "Troth," from his Memoirs of an Anti-Semite The Manifesto: Thomas Dilworth, "David Jones and Fascism" https://www.jstor.org/stable/3831437 The Art: Gregor von Rezzori, "Troth," from his Memoirs of an Anti-Semite https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1969/04/26/memoirs-of-an-anti-semite | — | ||||||
| 2/27/25 | Episode 76: Against Poets | Phil and Jake discuss Witold Gombrowicz's "Against Poets" and Czeslaw Milosz's "Ars Poetica?" The Manifesto: Witold Gombrowicz, "Against Poets" https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.12987/9780300183399-006/html?lang=en&srsltid=AfmBOopUFE9LX61sfmOAYszduQw78uOlvfHGgFOUPvi-0afjm9eQ2nhI The Art: Czeslaw Milosz, "Ars Poetica?" https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49455/ars-poetica-56d22b8f31558 | — | ||||||
| 1/25/25 | Episode 75: American Honor and the Iliad | Jake and Phil discuss Phil's New York Times essay "Trump, Hegseth, and the Honor of the American Military" and Homer's "Embassy to Achilles" The Manifesto: Phil Klay, "Trump, Hegseth, and the Honor of the American Military" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/opinion/trump-hegseth-military-morality.html The Art: Homer, "Embassy to Achilles" https://www.penguinbookshop.com/book/9780140275360 | — | ||||||
| 12/21/24 | Episode 74: Christmas Poetry and the Pogues | Jake and Phil discuss Thomas Hardy’s The Oxen, TS Eliot’s Journey of the Magi, and The Pogues Fairytale of New York Thomas Hardy - The Oxen https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53215/the-oxen-56d232503c32d TS Eliot - Journey of the Magi https://poetryarchive.org/poem/journey-magi/ The Pogues - Fairytale of New York https://youtu.be/j9jbdgZidu8?si=AWYk4ya5bFPUyFtd | — | ||||||
| 11/26/24 | Episode 73: Is America Ready for a Religious Revival? | Jake and Phil are joined by Ross Douthat, New York Times columnist and author of the forthcoming Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious, to discuss Ross' essay "Is the World Ready for a Religious Comeback" and Christian Wiman's 2008 essay in the American Scholar, "My Bright Abyss" The Manifesto: Ross Douthat, "Is the World Ready for a Religious Comeback" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/19/opinion/religion-atheism-books.html The Art: Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss https://theamericanscholar.org/my-bright-abyss/ Pre-order Ross' book https://www.zondervan.com/9780310367604/believe/ | — | ||||||
| 10/28/24 | Episode 72: Revolutionary Art and Coat-Snatching Ghosts | Jake and Phil discuss Leon Trotsky's "Communist Policy Toward Art" and Gogol's "The Overcoat" The Manifesto: Leon Trotsky - "Communist Policy Toward Art" https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1924/lit_revo/ch07.htm The Art Gogol - "The Overcoat" https://www.fountainheadpress.com/expandingthearc/assets/gogolovercoat.pdf | — | ||||||
| 9/27/24 | Episode 71: Politics and Merciless Nature | Phil and Jake discuss Joan Didion's "Politics in the New Normal America" and Robinson Jeffers "Fire on the Hills" The Manifesto: Joan Didion, Politics in the New Normal America https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2004/10/21/politics-in-the-new-normal-america/ The Art: Robinson Jeffers, Fire on the Hills https://ronnowpoetry.com/contents/jeffers/FireontheHills.html For more on Jeffers in Czechoslovakia, see The Warm Reception of Robinson Jeffers’s Poetry in Cold War Czechoslovakia, by Petr Kopecky https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/169/edited_volume/chapter/1524695/pdf | — | ||||||
| 8/30/24 | Episode 70: Punk and Metal | Jake and Phil are joined by Nate DiMeo, podcaster and author of the forthcoming The Memory Palace, to discuss the Riot Grrrl Manifesto, Steve Albini's The Problem with Music, and The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years The Manifestos: Kathleen Hanna, The Riot Grrrl Manifesto https://actipedia.org/project/riot-grrrl-manifesto Steve Albini, The Problem with Music https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-problem-with-music The Art: Penelope Spheeris - The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DZu6T8aDCA Nate's podcast: https://thememorypalace.us/ Nate's book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/706914/the-memory-palace-by-nate-dimeo/ | — | ||||||
| 7/25/24 | Episode 69: Should We Bring Children Into Existence? | Phil and Jake are joined by Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman, the authors of What Are Children For? On Ambivalence and Choice, to discuss David Benatar's 1997 paper "Why It Is Better Never to Come into Existence," alongside Paul Schrader's 2017 film First Reformed. The Manifesto: David Benatar - "Why It Is Better Never to Come into Existence" https://www.jstor.org/stable/20009904 The Art: Paul Schrader - First Reformed https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6053438/ Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman - What Are Children For? On Ambivalence and Choice https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250276131/whatarechildrenfor For more of Anastasia's work https://www.anastasiaberg.com/ Rachel's work at The Point https://thepointmag.com/author/rwiseman/ | — | ||||||
| 6/28/24 | Episode 68: The Serious Artist | Jake and Phil are joined by the poet and critic Alice Gribbin to discuss Ezra Pound's The Serious Artist and Eliot Weinberger's The Life of Tu Fu The Manifesto: Ezra Pound, The Serious Artist https://archive.org/details/literaryessaysof00poun/page/n5/mode/2up The Art: Eliot Weinberger, The Life of Tu Fu https://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-life-of-tu-fu/ For more of Alice's writing: https://www.alicegribbin.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=substack_profile | — | ||||||
| 5/30/24 | Episode 67: Wallace Stegner's Crossing to Safety | Jake and Phil are joined by Sam Kimbriel, director of the Aspen Institute's Philosophy and Society Initiative, to discuss Wallace Stegner's 1987 novel Crossing to Safety. | — | ||||||
| 4/29/24 |  Episode 66: Hobbits, Goblins and the Very Adult World of Fairy-Stories | Jake and Phil are joined by the novelist and chronicler of post-secular religious movements, Tara Isabella Burton, to discuss J.R.R. Tolkien's 1939 essay “On Fairy-Stories” and Christina Rossetti's 1862 poem, "Goblin Market." The manifesto: https://ieas-szeged.hu/downtherabbithole/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Tolkien-On-Fairy-Stories.pdf The Art: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44996/goblin-market Tara's new novel, Here In Avalon: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Here-in-Avalon/Tara-Isabella-Burton/9781982170097 | — | ||||||
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