Jake and Phil are joined by Amy Sohn, author of The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age, to discuss the 1967 anti-war manifesto A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority and Allen Ginsberg's 1956 poem Howl. 

The Manifesto: 
A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority 
<a href="https://vietnamwar.lib.umb.edu/warHome/docs/1967CallToResistIllegit.html" rel="nofollow noopener">https://vietnamwar.lib.umb.edu/warHome/docs/1967CallToResistIllegit.html</a>

The Art: 
Allen Ginsberg, Howl 
<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/howl" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/howl</a>

Episode 84: Philip Roth and Ecclesiastes

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.