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 Nov 16, 2020
Monday Nov 16, 2020
151 – The hosts explore slut shaming in heteronormative and homosexual contexts. What is being invoked when we call someone a “slut”?
Monday Nov 09, 2020
Monday Nov 09, 2020
150 – The hosts interrupt their current conversation to review the results of the 2020 presidential election. What do the deeply divided election results mean for the future of the U.S.?
Monday Nov 02, 2020
Monday Nov 02, 2020
149 – There’s a lot of talk about “rape culture” but there are counter currents in Western culture too. Progress ebbs and flows. What does Cardi B’s latest hit WAP tell us about women’s sexual liberation?
Monday Oct 26, 2020
Monday Oct 26, 2020
148 – Curtailing women’s sexual liberty has been a nearly universal cultural priority for thousands of years. But why? What does “slut shaming” look like in the early 21st century, and why is it still a thing?
Monday Oct 19, 2020
Monday Oct 19, 2020
147 – Look how much we’ve grown! The hosts recap their discussion of teenage nation. What will the next few years look like for America on the global stage? K.I.T.
Monday Oct 12, 2020
Monday Oct 12, 2020
146 – Everyone knows there’s global pandemic, but what distinguishes the American response is its adolescence. The left-leaning media is hysterical and the right-leaning media is in denial. What would a mature nation’s response to Covid-19 look like?
Monday Oct 05, 2020
Monday Oct 05, 2020
145 – The hosts continue their discussion of America’s adolescence in a different key. What imaginative possibilities remain when we stay “adolescent”?
Monday Sep 28, 2020
Monday Sep 28, 2020
144 – The Teenage Nation conversation gets personal when the hosts discuss their social media feeds. Red States v Blue States: Is there something fundamentally adolescent about social media platforms?
Monday Sep 21, 2020
Monday Sep 21, 2020
143 – More than just super-hero movies, the nation seems preoccupied with an adolescent worldview. What are the affects of prolonged adolescence on the national character?
Monday Sep 14, 2020
Monday Sep 14, 2020
142 – What does it mean when an entire nation has been taken over by adolescent sensibilities? The hosts discuss their own teenage years in this lead up to a much larger conversation.
Why does the American flag look like this?
As you can see, our flag is different.
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.