The American Age
Season 1
Episodes
Sunday Aug 05, 2018
Sunday Aug 05, 2018
031 - C. Travis Webb, Seph Rodney, and Steven Fullwood discuss Seph's recently completed book project. Seph has spent years studying how art museums cadre to and shape public expectations. Is it possible for the museum to be a neutral space of aesthetic engagement, or is it hopelessly bound to a political agenda?
Monday Jul 30, 2018
Monday Jul 30, 2018
030 - C. Travis Webb, Seph Rodney, and Steven Fullwood discuss the various ways that music does and does not shape the work they do. Does music boost or distract from your work? Just as musical tastes differ, so do preferences for listening.
Sunday Jul 22, 2018
Sunday Jul 22, 2018
029 - C. Travis Webb, Seph Rodney, and Steven Fullwood begin by discussing Rachel Dolezal, but quickly move to a free ranging discussion of why we're so bound up in racial narratives. What's at stake, and what do African and European Americans gain by focusing on it?
Sunday Jul 22, 2018
Sunday Jul 22, 2018
028 - C. Travis Webb, Seph Rodney and Steven Fullwood swap poems that have moved, inspired, and saved them. If you care about words or love lyrical licks, pop on some cans and give us a listen.
Monday Jul 09, 2018
Monday Jul 09, 2018
027 - C. Travis Webb, Steven Fullwood, and new contributor Meloo discuss the limits of civility. Does justice demand that we make public life uncomfortable for members of the Trump administration, or have we left too little space for principled disagreements on immigration?
Sunday Jul 01, 2018
Sunday Jul 01, 2018
026 - C. Travis Webb, Seph Rodney, and Steven Fullwood discuss "toxic masculinity." What do healthy models of masculinity look like, and is it possible to be manly without being misogynist?
Wednesday Jun 27, 2018
Wednesday Jun 27, 2018
025 - C. Travis Webb, Seph Rodney, and Steven Fullwood discuss Trump's announcement of a space force. While many pundits spent the week laughing, the show considers the rough and tumble arena of international politics, and asks whether it's crazy to consider the possibility "politics by other means" will continue unabated in space.
Monday Jun 18, 2018
Monday Jun 18, 2018
024 - C. Travis Webb and Steven Fullwood discuss what their twenty year old selves would think of their middle aged selves. How do our measures of success change overtime?
Sunday Jun 10, 2018
Sunday Jun 10, 2018
023 - C. Travis Webb, Seph Rodney, and Steven Fullwood discuss Roseanne Barr's apology. How much credit should she get? Can we fight for a progressive political agenda and make room for forgiveness and empathy?
Tuesday May 29, 2018
Tuesday May 29, 2018
021 - C. Travis Webb and Steven Fullwood discuss the roll of politics in art. Artists have always been politically engaged, but can too much politics interfere with what is moving and provocative about great art?