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The episode features a discussion on anti-war manifestos and significant literary works related to civil liberties.

Jake and Phil are joined by Amy Sohn, author of The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age, to discuss the 1967 anti-war manifesto A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority and Allen Ginsberg's 1956 poem Howl. The Manifesto: A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority https://vietnamwar.lib.umb.edu/warHome/docs/1967CallToResistIllegit.html The Art: Allen Ginsberg, Howl https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/howl

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