Jake and Phil discuss Teilhard de Chardin's 1946 Some Reflections on the Spiritual Repercussions of the Atom Bomb and Charles Mingus' "Oh Lord Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb on Me," off of his 1962 album Oh Yeah.

The Manifesto: 
Teilhard de Chardin - "Some Reflections on the Spiritual Repercussions of the Atom Bomb" 
<a href="https://www.religion-online.org/book-chapter/chapter-8-some-reflections-on-the-spiritual-repercussions-of-the-atom-bomb/" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.religion-online.org/book-chapter/chapter-8-some-reflections-on-the-spiritual-repercussions-of-the-atom-bomb/</a>

The Art: 
Charles Mingus - "Oh Lord Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb on Me" 
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaeVLd4G1Zg" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaeVLd4G1Zg</a>

Episode 79: Kitsch, Pop, and Democratic Art

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.