Phil and Jake are joined by Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman, the authors of What Are Children For? On Ambivalence and Choice, to discuss David Benatar's 1997 paper "Why It Is Better Never to Come into Existence," alongside Paul Schrader's 2017 film First Reformed.

The Manifesto: 
David Benatar - "Why It Is Better Never to Come into Existence" 
<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/20009904" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.jstor.org/stable/20009904</a>

The Art: 
Paul Schrader - First Reformed 
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6053438/" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6053438/</a>

Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman - What Are Children For? On Ambivalence and Choice 
<a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250276131/whatarechildrenfor" rel="nofollow noopener">https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250276131/whatarechildrenfor</a>

For more of Anastasia's work 
<a href="https://www.anastasiaberg.com/" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.anastasiaberg.com/</a>

Rachel's work at The Point 
<a href="https://thepointmag.com/author/rwiseman/" rel="nofollow noopener">https://thepointmag.com/author/rwiseman/</a>

Episode 70: Punk and Metal

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.