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© 2026 Philip Klay and Jacob Siegel
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Your regular visit to the archives of vanity, where men and women who stopped making myths turned to issuing commandments. Your guides for this journey are the writers Phil Klay and Jacob Siegel, along with their trusty engineer, Jacqui Rigazio May you continue to be a person. Manifesto! Is now sponsored by Fairfield University, a Jesuit University in Fairfield Connecticut. Fairfield’s mission is to develop the creative intellectual potential of students and to foster in them ethical and religious values and a sense of social responsibility. Phil also teaches at Fairfield, in both their undergraduate English department and in their Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program. We’re very pleased to be associated with Fairfield, and thank them for their sponsorship.
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Phil Klay is joined by Kathleen Kilcup, author of Between the Light and Me: A Memoir of Beauty and Violence, to discuss Flannery O'Connor's The Church and the Fiction Writer and the 12th century icon The Ladder of Divine Ascent
The Manifesto:
https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/1957/03/30/flannery-oconnor-church-fiction-writer-148496/
The Art:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladder_of_Divine_Ascent_(icon)#/media/File:The_Ladder_of_Divine_Ascent_Monastery_of_St_Catherine_Sinai_12th_century.jpg
Katie's memoir:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/between-the-light-and-me-kathleen-kilcup/1149674487?ean=9780802885272
Phil is joined by Dan Walden, formerly a professor in the honors college at the University of Tulsa, to discuss Dan's essay "The Left Case for Great Books," alongside Plato's Symposium.
The Manifesto:
Dan Walden "The Left Case for Great Books"
https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/the-left-case-for-great-books/
The Art:
Plato's Symposium
https://hackettpublishing.com/symposium
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/
Jake and Phil are joined by Jenn Frey, a philosopher at the University of Virginia, to discuss Iris Murdoch and Madame Bovary
The Manifesto:
Iris Murdoch - The Sovereignty of Good
https://eganphilosophy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Murdoch-The-Sovereignty-of-Good-Over-Other-Concepts.pdf
The Art:
Flaubert - Madame Bovary
Manifesto! A Podcast is sponsored by Fairfield University
Jake and Phil are joined by Vladislav Davidzon to discuss Kazimir Malevich's The Manifesto of Suprematism and the poetry of Serhiy Zhadan.
The Manifesto:
Malevich, The Manifesto of Suprematism
https://designmanifestos.org/kazimir-malevich-the-manifesto-of-suprematism/
The Art:
Serhiy Zhadan
https://poetrysociety.org/poems/three-poems-by-serhiy-zhadan
https://www.wordsforwar.com/take-only-what-is-most-important
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