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: 
<a href="https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/wp-content/uploads/1979/01/the-power-of-the-powerless.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/wp-content/uploads/1979/01/the-power-of-the-powerless.pdf</a>

The Art: 
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJy0LP8iYPg&list=PLaVHibd49QFIsKywss9Jh0rati5skWEYD" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJy0LP8iYPg&amp;list=PLaVHibd49QFIsKywss9Jh0rati5skWEYD</a>

Jared&#39;s essay, The Metaphysician-in-Chief, in Liberties 
<a href="https://libertiesjournal.com/articles/the-metaphysician-in-chief/" rel="nofollow">https://libertiesjournal.com/articles/the-metaphysician-in-chief/</a>

Episode 65: Orwell and Ukraine

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.