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 Mar 21, 2022
Monday Mar 21, 2022
015 - The hosts reflect on part 2 of their podcast on Joe Rogan. Travis discusses why free speech is a fundamental principle of democracy and a spur to personal insight and growth. Seph expresses his desire for a higher level of journalistic integrity from those who have the power through their platforms. Steven shares a story from The Atlantic, in which the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia is given a platform to speak for himself.
Monday Mar 14, 2022
Monday Mar 14, 2022
206 - The hosts continue their discussion of Joe Rogan and his podcast. The conversation opens up from there as they consider the importance of free speech in a functioning democracy.
Monday Mar 07, 2022
Monday Mar 07, 2022
014 - The hosts reflect on the first of a two-part podcast about Joe Rogan. Steven shares his thoughts about online free speech, censorship and gatekeepers; Travis reiterates his defense of free speech in light of YouTube blocking the channel of state-controlled Russian news network RT.
Monday Feb 28, 2022
Monday Feb 28, 2022
205 - The hosts discuss Joe Rogan and the latest controversies surrounding his podcast. They also spend some time talking about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and do a mighty fine job of tying them together.
Monday Feb 21, 2022
Monday Feb 21, 2022
013 - The hosts reflect on last week’s conversation about Lizzy. Travis discusses the body as a problem, or riddle, that is exclusively our own to solve. Seph shares a personal anecdote about the notion of self improvement through a sense of lack. Steven talks about how advertising steals our imagination over body image.
Monday Feb 14, 2022
Monday Feb 14, 2022
204 - What’s the difference between honoring our bodies and promoting our bodies? Can we talk about health and wellness and still make room for a variety of shapes and sizes? The hosts talk Lizzo, busybodies, and Joe Rogan.
Monday Feb 07, 2022
Monday Feb 07, 2022
012 - The hosts talk about last week's podcast about the podcast. Travis shares a personal anecdote; Steve talks his experience with technology over the years; Seph reveals his feelings about a tweet he read that stuck with him.
Monday Jan 31, 2022
Monday Jan 31, 2022
203 - Steven asks Seph and Travis to reflect on the podcast itself. Over 200 episodes in, what do the hosts think about what they’re doing. Who do they think is listening? And why don’t they do more to promote their conversations?
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
011 - The hosts reflect on last week's discussion of Judith Butler and Bari Weiss.
Monday Jan 17, 2022
Monday Jan 17, 2022
202 - Bari Weiss wrote a book on Anti-semitism. The philosopher Judith Butler criticized it. The hosts try to understand that criticism and each other as they work through our unfair biases, and our unfair grievances.
Why does the American flag look like this?
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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.