Phil and Jake discuss Joan Didion's "Politics in the New Normal America" and Robinson Jeffers "Fire on the Hills"

The Manifesto: 
Joan Didion, Politics in the New Normal America 
<a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2004/10/21/politics-in-the-new-normal-america/" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2004/10/21/politics-in-the-new-normal-america/</a>

The Art: 
Robinson Jeffers, Fire on the Hills 
<a href="https://ronnowpoetry.com/contents/jeffers/FireontheHills.html" rel="nofollow noopener">https://ronnowpoetry.com/contents/jeffers/FireontheHills.html</a>

For more on Jeffers in Czechoslovakia, see The Warm Reception of Robinson Jeffers’s Poetry in Cold War Czechoslovakia, by Petr Kopecky 
<a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/169/edited_volume/chapter/1524695/pdf" rel="nofollow noopener">https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/169/edited_volume/chapter/1524695/pdf</a>

Episode 72: Revolutionary Art and Coat-Snatching Ghosts

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.