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
Friday Apr 17, 2020
Friday Apr 17, 2020
121 – The hosts use their personal stories to discuss the long-term effects of the pandemic. How will people be shaped by social distancing?
Friday Apr 10, 2020
Friday Apr 10, 2020
120 – What does it mean to be prosperous in a precarious world? The hosts talk about what Covid-19 reveals about our social structures and our mythologies.
Friday Apr 03, 2020
Friday Apr 03, 2020
119 – The hosts discuss their shock, both as a concept, and as their own personal response to the pandemic.
Monday Mar 30, 2020
Monday Mar 30, 2020
Monday Mar 23, 2020
Monday Mar 23, 2020
116 – Everyone in the United States seems to be angry about everything. What are the roots of this anger? What are its effects? Can it be used constructively? (Part 2 of 2).
Monday Mar 16, 2020
Monday Mar 16, 2020
115 – The hosts conclude their conversation on community. Are there community's you are a part of but wish you weren't? (Part 1 of 2).
Monday Mar 09, 2020
Monday Mar 09, 2020
114 – How do we know that we belong to a community? What is the role of touching as a ritual, and rituals in general within the community, and is it possible to maintain a community without them?
Monday Mar 02, 2020
Monday Mar 02, 2020
113 – What is the role of death in the community? How does it contribute to community formation, and how is death shaped by the community?
Monday Feb 24, 2020
Monday Feb 24, 2020
112 – Part 2 of 2. We are shaped by the communities we escape from, and the communities we find. What does it mean for a social primate to be "an individual"?
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.