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 Sep 30, 2019
Monday Sep 30, 2019
091 – The hosts, along with new contributor Sarah Bond, discuss their impressions of the 1619 project. Does it go far enough in reckoning with our past?
Monday Sep 23, 2019
Monday Sep 23, 2019
090 – The podcast welcomes a new contributor, Sarah Bond, PhD, and the hosts reflect on their climate change discussion.
Monday Sep 16, 2019
Monday Sep 16, 2019
089 – Contemplating the consequences of climate change is not only the purview of scientists. Artists are also helping to imagine the contours of a warming planet, as well as re-imagine what possibilities might emerge from this global crisis.
Monday Sep 09, 2019
Monday Sep 09, 2019
088 – How well does "An Inconvenient Truth" (2006) hold up after ten plus years of scientific research and political upheaval? The hosts engage not only with the film and its nominal protagonist, Al Gore, but the effectiveness of film as advocacy.
Monday Sep 02, 2019
Monday Sep 02, 2019
087 – Memory isn't something that lives only in our minds. Memory lives in objects--in museums, and scrap books, and archives. How can archives help us make sense of climate change? What do we choose to preserve and why?
Monday Aug 26, 2019
Monday Aug 26, 2019
086 – The hosts explore what pop cultural references to climate change can and can't accomplish. Does pop culture improve our environmental awareness, or simply point back at itself recursively?
Monday Aug 19, 2019
Monday Aug 19, 2019
085 – The effects of climate change will not be evenly distributed. Some landscapes, cultures, and peoples will suffer more than others. And some people will profit from that suffering. Who has a responsibility to deal with that suffering?
Monday Aug 12, 2019
Monday Aug 12, 2019
084 – The hosts take a break from their long form discussion about climate change to discuss Toni Morrison, who died on August 5th. “We die," Morrison said in her 1993 Nobel Prize acceptance. "That may be the meaning of life. But we do language," she added. "That may be the measure of our lives.”
Monday Aug 05, 2019
Monday Aug 05, 2019
083 – How can we think about climate change in new ways, so that we might better understand what's at stake? If we look at the history of demographic displacement then the future of climate change comes into stark relief. And that future is darker for some than for others.
Monday Jul 29, 2019
Monday Jul 29, 2019
082 – The hosts discuss climate change. It’s in the news all the time, but how we talk about climate change is as important as identifying its parameters and potential consequences. How are we talking about our precarious place in the world?
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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.