Jake and Phil are joined by Nate DiMeo, podcaster and author of the forthcoming The Memory Palace, to discuss the Riot Grrrl Manifesto, Steve Albini's The Problem with Music, and The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years

The Manifestos: 

Kathleen Hanna, The Riot Grrrl Manifesto 
<a href="https://actipedia.org/project/riot-grrrl-manifesto" rel="nofollow noopener">https://actipedia.org/project/riot-grrrl-manifesto</a>

Steve Albini, The Problem with Music 
<a href="https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-problem-with-music" rel="nofollow noopener">https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-problem-with-music</a>

The Art: 
Penelope Spheeris - The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years 
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DZu6T8aDCA" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DZu6T8aDCA</a>

Nate's podcast: 
<a href="https://thememorypalace.us/" rel="nofollow noopener">https://thememorypalace.us/</a>

Nate's book: 
<a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/706914/the-memory-palace-by-nate-dimeo/" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/706914/the-memory-palace-by-nate-dimeo/</a>

Episode 71: Politics and Merciless Nature

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.