Best Jacob Fairfield Podcasts (2025)

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Episode 78: Reflections on the Atom Bomb 1:05:01

12d ago1:05:01

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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…

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Episode 77: Fascist Apologetics and the Memoirs of an Anti-Semite 1:37:19

2M ago1:37:19

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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-S…

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Episode 76: Against Poets 1:10:13

2M ago1:10:13

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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.poetryfoun…

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Episode 75: American Honor and the Iliad 1:12:40

4M ago1:12:40

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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://…

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Episode 74: Christmas Poetry and the Pogues 53:00

5M ago53:00

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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…

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Episode 73: Is America Ready for a Religious Revival? 1:30:38

6M ago1:30:38

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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 …

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Episode 72: Revolutionary Art and Coat-Snatching Ghosts 1:13:59

7M ago1:13:59

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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…

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Episode 71: Politics and Merciless Nature 49:14

8M ago49:14

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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/Fireon…

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Episode 70: Punk and Metal 1:31:22

9M ago1:31:22

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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 St…

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Episode 69: Should We Bring Children Into Existence? 2:04:28

10M ago2:04:28

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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" http…

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Episode 68: The Serious Artist 1:48:37

11M ago1:48:37

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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-f…

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Episode 67: Wallace Stegner's Crossing to Safety 59:17

12M ago59:17

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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.By Manifesto! A Podcast

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Episode 66: Hobbits, Goblins and the Very Adult World of Fairy-Stories 1:23:11

1y ago1:23:11

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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: htt…

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Episode 65: Orwell and Ukraine 1:11:20

1y ago1:11:20

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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: Conflict in Context" The Manifesto: George Orwell, "Looking Back on the Spanish War" https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-an…

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Episode 64: Power of the Powerless and the Velvet Underground 1:22:03

1y ago1:22:03

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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 Manifesto: https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/wp-content/uploads/1979/01/the-power-of-the-powerless.pdf The Art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJy0L…

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Episode 63: How Money Culture Hurts the American Family and Girls 1:12:03

1+ y ago1:12:03

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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 the American Family" https://www.capita.org/money-culture Girls, Welcome to Bushwick a.k.a. The Crackcident https://www.hbo.com/girls/season-1/7-welcome-…

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Episode 62: Last Men and Women: George Scialabba and the Challenge of Modernity 1:20:54

1+ y ago1:20:54

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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 rage, our commitments to the modern, liberal order are being questioned like never before. Do we understand ourselves best as individuals or as members of…

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Episode 61: Red Music and Mal Waldron 1:08:52

1+ y ago1:08:52

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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 Music" https://harpers.org/archive/1986/03/red-music/ The Art: Mal Waldron, "Mal Waldron Plays Erik Satie" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juNNxsUXvQw…

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Episode 60: The Palestinian People and the Western Observer 1:01:34

1+ y ago1:01:34

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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 well as his book "Returning to Jaffa." https://philipmetres.comBy Manifesto! A Podcast

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Episode 59: Israel and Hamas 1:53:14

1+ y ago1:53:14

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Phil asks Jake about the recent conflict in Israel, and they take listener questions.By Manifesto! A Podcast

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Episode 58: The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu 31:24

1+ y ago31:24

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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 translation of Augusto Higa Oshiro's The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu. https://archipelagobooks.org/book/the-enlightenment-of-katzuo-nakamatsu/…

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Episode 57: Some Lying and Some BS 1:34:50

1+ y ago1:34:50

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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://walterkirn.substack.com/p/the-bullshit The Art: Mark Twain's "My First Lie and How I Got Out of It" https://americanliterature.com/author/mark-twain/short-sto…

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Episode 56: The Secular Saint 1:35:27

2y ago1:35:27

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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 Elementary Particles. The Manifesto: Michael Novak, The Secular Saint https://www.amazon.com/theology-radical-politics-Michael-Novak/dp/B0006BZ4H2 The Art: Mic…

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Episode 55: The Great Mating Debate 1:18:22

2y ago1:18:22

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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 book critic at the Washington Post and an editor at the Point. BD McClay is an essayist and critic who has written for publications like Lapham's Quart…

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Episode 54: Nirvana and The Trials of the Young 1:20:14

2y ago1:20:14

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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 songs "Drain You" and "Moist Vagina." The Manifesto: Mary Gaitskill, "The Trials of the Young " https://marygaitskill.substack.com/p/the-despair-of-th…

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Episode 78: Reflections on the Atom Bomb 1:05:01

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Episode 77: Fascist Apologetics and the Memoirs of an Anti-Semite 1:37:19

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Episode 76: Against Poets 1:10:13

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Episode 75: American Honor and the Iliad 1:12:40

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Episode 74: Christmas Poetry and the Pogues 53:00

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Episode 73: Is America Ready for a Religious Revival? 1:30:38

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Episode 72: Revolutionary Art and Coat-Snatching Ghosts 1:13:59

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Episode 71: Politics and Merciless Nature 49:14

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Episode 70: Punk and Metal 1:31:22

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Episode 69: Should We Bring Children Into Existence? 2:04:28

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Episode 68: The Serious Artist 1:48:37

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Episode 67: Wallace Stegner's Crossing to Safety 59:17

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Episode 66: Hobbits, Goblins and the Very Adult World of Fairy-Stories 1:23:11

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Episode 65: Orwell and Ukraine 1:11:20

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Episode 64: Power of the Powerless and the Velvet Underground 1:22:03

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Episode 63: How Money Culture Hurts the American Family and Girls 1:12:03

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Episode 62: Last Men and Women: George Scialabba and the Challenge of Modernity 1:20:54

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Episode 61: Red Music and Mal Waldron 1:08:52

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Episode 60: The Palestinian People and the Western Observer 1:01:34

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Episode 59: Israel and Hamas 1:53:14

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Episode 58: The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu 31:24

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Episode 57: Some Lying and Some BS 1:34:50

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Episode 56: The Secular Saint 1:35:27

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Episode 55: The Great Mating Debate 1:18:22

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Episode 54: Nirvana and The Trials of the Young 1:20:14