Jake and Phil are joined by former Michigan Congressman Peter Meijer to discuss longshoreman philosopher Eric Hoffer’s 1951 book, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, and the poem “On Reading Crowds and Power,” by Geoffrey Hill.

The Manifesto (an edition with some very cool cover art): 
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements 
<a href="https://archive.org/details/truebelieverthou0000hoff/mode/2up" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/truebelieverthou0000hoff/mode/2up</a>

The Art: 
On Reading Crowds and Power 
<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/49285/on-reading-crowds-and-power" rel="nofollow">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/49285/on-reading-crowds-and-power</a>

Episode 53: Poe's Law and Philip K. Dick's Faith of Our Fathers

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.