Jake and Phil are joined by Carlos Lozada to discuss his new book, What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era, and the chapter &quot;Decent People&quot; from Garth Greenwell&#39;s Cleanness. 

The Manifesto: 
Carlos Lozada, What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era 
<a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/What-Were-We-Thinking/Carlos-Lozada/9781982145620" rel="nofollow">https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/What-Were-We-Thinking/Carlos-Lozada/9781982145620</a>

The Art: 
Garth Greenwell, &quot;Decent People&quot; 
<a href="https://thesewaneereview.com/articles/decent-people" rel="nofollow">https://thesewaneereview.com/articles/decent-people</a>

Episode 30: King Lear or Endgame or Psalm

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.