Jake and Phil discuss Clement Greenberg's 1939 "Kitsch and the Avant-Garde" alongside Taylor Swift's "I Knew You Were Trouble" and Leonard Cohen's "Chelsea Hotel No. 2"

The Manifesto: 
Clement Greenberg, "Avant-Garde and Kitsch" 
<a href="https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1606923282/slcschoolsorg/wumlyaskvhhzawsvbbzc/Avant-GardeandKitsch.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener">https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1606923282/slcschoolsorg/wumlyaskvhhzawsvbbzc/Avant-GardeandKitsch.pdf</a>

The Art: 
Taylor Swift, "I Knew You Were Trouble" 
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNoKguSdy4Y" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNoKguSdy4Y</a>

Leonard Cohen, "Chelsea Hotel No. 2" 
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWZo7UmCbBc" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWZo7UmCbBc</a>

Episode 80: Thomas Mann and Abraham Lincoln in Wartime

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.