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.
Episodes
Monday Jun 29, 2020
Monday Jun 29, 2020
131 – The hosts use the kente cloth Congressional photo op on June 8th as a way to talk about race, generosity, and how to go about dismantling "race" without reifying it.
Monday Jun 22, 2020
Monday Jun 22, 2020
130 – The hosts discuss Juneteenth, the debate around police disinvestment, and the role of violence in the history of liberation.
Monday Jun 15, 2020
Monday Jun 15, 2020
129 – The hosts continue their conversation about the recent protests against racism, and why progress is so difficult to make.
Monday Jun 08, 2020
Monday Jun 08, 2020
128 – The hosts try their best to make sense of a chaotic week. They discuss police tactics, race, and the various communities' responses to Floyd's murder.
Monday Jun 01, 2020
Monday Jun 01, 2020
127 – The hosts explore the intersection of knowledge, violence, and beauty. Why are violence and sexual titillation so closely intertwined, and why are black males so closely associated with both in the cultural imagination?
Monday May 25, 2020
Monday May 25, 2020
126 – The hosts discuss the social categories we use to sanction aesthetic expression. Who gets to talk about Emmett Till, slavery, the Holocaust, and why?
Monday May 18, 2020
Monday May 18, 2020
125 – The hosts continue their conversation about Marxism and art, and revisit the controversy surrounding Dana Schutz painting of Emmett Till.
Monday May 11, 2020
Monday May 11, 2020
124 – The hosts begin their conversation on beauty, politics, and identity. This episode considers art and economics.
Friday May 01, 2020
Friday May 01, 2020
123 – For now, the hosts conclude their conversation about Covid-19. But before they do, they talk about the challenges small businesses face trying to survive.
Friday Apr 24, 2020
Friday Apr 24, 2020
122 – The hosts discuss the ways in which our political affiliations affect our interpretation of the pandemic, both its severity and its remedies.
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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.