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
Thursday Mar 08, 2018
Thursday Mar 08, 2018
010 - C. Travis Webb and Steven Fullwood discuss the history of denial in America, from Thomas Jefferson to the 2016 election. Should denial be considered a form of collective madness, and has social media made our denial worse?
Wednesday Feb 28, 2018
Wednesday Feb 28, 2018
009 - C. Travis Webb and Seph Rodney discuss "context collapse." This is the idea that "new media" has decontextualized the facts of our lives and cultures. We don't have enough information to make judgments about one another. Is this a new phenomenon, and is it necessarily bad? How might we deal with it?
Wednesday Feb 21, 2018
Wednesday Feb 21, 2018
008 - C. Travis Webb and Steven Fullwood discuss whether free, heterogeneous societies must tolerate some degree of violence. Is violence the cost we all must bear to live with difference?
Tuesday Feb 20, 2018
Tuesday Feb 20, 2018
007 - C. Travis Webb and Seph Rodney discuss corporate responsibility. What does it mean when corporations become the guardians of democracy?
Sunday Feb 11, 2018
Sunday Feb 11, 2018
006 - Steven Fullword and C. Travis Webb discuss David Lynch's Mulholland Drive. What is the relationship between storytelling and film?
Thursday Feb 01, 2018
Thursday Feb 01, 2018
005 - Secrets are an inextricable part of intimate relationships--not only keeping them together, but keeping them from each other. A wide ranging discussion between C. Travis Webb, Seph Rodney, and Steven Fullwood.
Wednesday Jan 24, 2018
Wednesday Jan 24, 2018
004 - C. Travis Webb and Seph Rodney continue their discussion about public outrage. Does expertise bring wisdom? Is outrage at elites justified? This and much more is discussed in this second of a two part discussion.
Thursday Jan 18, 2018
Thursday Jan 18, 2018
003 - In this episode C. Travis Webb and Seph Rodney discuss the coarsening of civic culture. What are the results and causes of public outrage? Are they historical or psychological? Part I of II
Tuesday Jan 09, 2018
Tuesday Jan 09, 2018
002 - In this episode C. Travis Webb and Seph Rodney discuss faith in the future. Is faith in the future justifiable or naive? Contrasting Ta-Nehisi Coates with Jeffrey Goldberg (the editor of The Atlantic), Webb argues that "faith" isn't the point, and Rodney emphasizes the importance of honesty in any assessment of the American project.
Tuesday Jan 02, 2018
Tuesday Jan 02, 2018
001 - On the inaugural episode of The American Age podcast, C. Travis Webb and Seph Rodney discuss “unlucky days.” Taking inspiration from the Mayan tradition of the haab (i.e. the five “unnamed” days that fall between the end of the old sun calendar and the start of the new) Travis and Seph discuss the days between Christmas and New Year, and the ways in which we try to make sense of our lives.
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.