The American Age
What if your favorite college professors were willing to talk about everything from philosophy and politics to pop culture and love with the same kind of consideration and enthusiasm? Each week C. Travis Webb, Seph Rodney, and Steven Fullwood discuss life, culture, and art, and challenge their listeners to take fewer things for granted and all things more seriously.
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Episodes
Monday Jan 25, 2021
Monday Jan 25, 2021
161 - The hosts continue their conversation about the insurrection on January 6th, 2021. Is free speech a principle or dispensable in the pursuit of a higher good?
Monday Jan 18, 2021
Monday Jan 18, 2021
160 - The hosts turn their discussion of “knowledge” towards the insurrection in Washington, DC on January 6th. What happens when competing knowledge networks come to blows?
Monday Jan 11, 2021
Monday Jan 11, 2021
159 – Superfans know things that casual observers do not. What are superfans—zealots, philosophers, critics, mean girls, or provocateurs—and what are the consequences of their proliferation on social media?
Monday Jan 04, 2021
Monday Jan 04, 2021
158 – The hosts use a Michelle Wolf comedy routine to discuss the antagonism between social comfort and social responsibility. How does knowing or not knowing something affect our moral responsibilities?
Monday Dec 28, 2020
Monday Dec 28, 2020
157 – The hosts return to those liminal days between Christmas and New Year for their yearly recap. What are we to make of 2020?
Monday Dec 21, 2020
Monday Dec 21, 2020
156 – We all know things that we willfully forget. What are the things that you know about yourself and the world that you avoid knowing?
Monday Dec 14, 2020
Monday Dec 14, 2020
155 – Is it still relevant in the age of the internet to “know” things about the world? Join the hosts as they continue their discussion on the state of knowledge.
Monday Dec 07, 2020
Monday Dec 07, 2020
154 – How do we know what we know? It’s a pretty old question, and particularly relevant in the “Fake News” era. Join the hosts as they discuss the state of knowledge.
Monday Nov 30, 2020
Monday Nov 30, 2020
153 – The hosts conclude their conversation on slut shaming. Does the power to say “yes” hinge on the responsibility to say “no”?
Monday Nov 23, 2020
Monday Nov 23, 2020
152 – The hosts talk about the tension between individual liberty, and community responsibility. Is it ever okay to shame people to influence their behavior?
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We believe in the American idea that all men and women are equal before the law and enjoy rights that are intrinsic and inalienable. We also believe, along with Thomas Jefferson, that because men and women are imperfect, and their wisdom is limited and fleeting, that this idea must be renewed periodically in order to remain vital...
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The American Age is a salutary response to the disease at the core of American civic culture. It is a rejection of intellectual cynicism, historical amnesia, and the politics of dread. It is a rooster call to stir our fellow humanists awake.