Jake and Phil are joined by Paul Berman to discuss The Plague, by Albert Camus.

The Manifesto: 
Albert Camus, The Plague (the second half of Part II) 

The Art: 
Albert Camus, The Plague (the second half of Part II) 

Works Discussed

Paul Berman, &quot;Modern Times&quot; 
<a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/paul-berman-modern-times-1" rel="nofollow">https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/paul-berman-modern-times-1</a>

Paul Berman, Terror and Liberalism 
<a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393325553" rel="nofollow">https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393325553</a>

Albert Camus, The Rebel

Iris Murdoch, &quot;The Existentialist Hero&quot; 
<a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/330442/existentialists-and-mystics-by-iris-murdoch/" rel="nofollow">https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/330442/existentialists-and-mystics-by-iris-murdoch/</a>

Dostoevsky, The Underground Man

Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Episode 26: On Pain and on Fallujah Revisited

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.