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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.

Episode 229: This is the End...?

85 hours 42 mins; January 15, 2024

Episode 228: Representation and Reality: Elevating Latino and Caribbean Art, and Artists

74 hours 9 mins; June 15, 2023

Episode 227: Come on, Vogue? Trans Culture, Ball Room, and Group Identity

150 hours 4 mins; March 02, 2023

Episode 226: Twilight of the Idols? Confederate Statues, Monuments, and Progress

159 hours 48 mins; January 31, 2023

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes: New Year Updates

48 mins; December 05, 2022

Weak Connections, Strong Ties

60 hours 55 mins; November 21, 2022

Notes on The American Age - Practicing Intellectual Intimacy: The Hosts Hash It Out

15 mins; November 17, 2022

Practicing Intellectual Intimacy: The Hosts Hash It Out

98 hours 48 mins; November 07, 2022

Notes on The American Age - No Place Like Home

16 mins; November 01, 2022

No Place Like Home

41 mins; October 24, 2022

Notes on The American Age - Living in the Present vs Thinking about the Future

12 mins; October 18, 2022

Living in the Present vs Thinking about the Future

52 mins; October 11, 2022

Notes on The American Age - Top 3s: Films, Cities, and more

15 mins; October 04, 2022

Top 3s: Films, Cities, and more

63 hours 7 mins; September 26, 2022

Notes on The American Age - Strange Beliefs: Flirting with the Limits of What We Know

17 mins; September 20, 2022

Strange Beliefs: Flirting with the Limits of What We Know

52 mins; September 14, 2022

Notes on The American Age - Gratitude

25 mins; September 06, 2022

Gratitude

57 mins; August 29, 2022

Notes on The American Age - Institutional Trust: Faith vs Naivete

21 mins; August 22, 2022

Institutional Trust: Faith vs Naivete

67 hours 7 mins; August 15, 2022

Notes on The American Age - Staying Close to Home

20 mins; August 09, 2022

Staying Close to Home

66 hours 23 mins; August 01, 2022

Notes on The American Age - Elite Capture: Olúfémi Táíwò and the Politics of Privilege

25 mins; July 25, 2022

“Elite Capture”: Olúfémi Táíwò and the Politics of Privilege

49 mins; July 19, 2022

Notes on The American Age - Vs, The War of All Against All: Abortion

27 mins; July 11, 2022

Vs, The War of All Against All: Abortion

44 mins; July 05, 2022

Notes on The American Age - Underdogs and Empires: What Compels Us to Care?

12 mins; June 27, 2022

Underdogs and Empires: What Compels Us to Care?

34 mins; June 20, 2022

Notes on The American Age - Intellectual Protagonists and Inspirational Antagonists

19 mins; June 13, 2022

Intellectual Protagonists and Inspirational Antagonists

52 mins; June 06, 2022

Notes on The American Age - From Abortion to Beauty Standards

28 mins; May 31, 2022

From Abortion to Beauty Standards

65 hours 47 mins; May 23, 2022

Notes on The American Age - My Body, My Choice, Except When...

21 mins; May 16, 2022

My Body, My Choice, Except When...

60 hours 19 mins; May 09, 2022

Notes on The American Age- “Don’t Say Gay” Bills: Representations vs Realities

27 mins; May 02, 2022

“Don’t Say Gay” Bills: Representations vs Realities

76 hours 3 mins; April 25, 2022

Notes on The American Age - Dignity and Violence: Will Smith, Ukraine, and Other Things

24 mins; April 18, 2022

Dignity and Violence: Will Smith, Ukraine, and Other Things

53 mins; April 11, 2022

Notes on The American Age - Jussie Smollett and the Power of Infamy

17 mins; April 04, 2022

Jussie Smollett - The Power of Infamy

52 mins; March 28, 2022

Notes on The American Age - Part 2: Joe Rogan and the Right to Be Wrong

23 mins; March 21, 2022

Part 2: Joe Rogan and the Right to Be Wrong

53 mins; March 14, 2022

Notes on The American Age - Part 1: Joe Rogan Says What?

15 mins; March 07, 2022

Part I: Joe Rogan Says What?

70 hours 18 mins; February 28, 2022

Notes on The American Age - Lizzy: Body Neutrality Over Positivity

24 mins; February 21, 2022

Lizzo: Body Neutrality Over Positivity

65 hours 11 mins; February 14, 2022

Notes on The American Age - The Podcast about the Podcast

21 mins; February 07, 2022

The Podcast about the Podcast

68 hours 12 mins; January 31, 2022

Notes on The American Age - Intersectionality: Unfair Bias, Unfair Grievance

20 mins; January 25, 2022

Intersectionality: Unfair Bias, Unfair Grievance

53 mins; January 17, 2022

Notes on The American Age - Remembering Betty White

17 mins; January 10, 2022

One Degree of White Supremacy

72 hours 15 mins; January 03, 2022

Notes on The American Age - Unlucky Days

28 mins; December 26, 2021

Milestones and Artifacts

67 hours 59 mins; December 21, 2021

Notes on The American Age - Is Ideology Killing Trump Voters: Vaccines, Data, and Empathy

35 mins; December 13, 2021

How to Do Right By People: Affirmative Action to Self-Care

64 hours 51 mins; December 06, 2021

Notes on The American Age - Kyle Rittenhouse Acquitted: Thoughts on Kenosha, Violence, and Justice

33 mins; November 29, 2021

Decorum: MAGA Hats, Performance Art, and Us

66 hours 34 mins; November 22, 2021

Notes on The American Age: Who Gets to Say It? And Who Gets to Decide What ”It” Is?

25 mins; November 15, 2021

“Identity Fraud”: Woke, Race Hustling, and Manners

61 hours 7 mins; November 08, 2021

On Anthony Fauci, the Wuhan Lab: What Does It Mean to “Trust” Public Officials

29 mins; October 31, 2021

Objective or Fair: What’s Possible, What’s Best

50 mins; October 25, 2021

On Katie Couric and RBG - What Happens When Girlbosses Gaslight and Gatekeep Each Other

29 mins; October 18, 2021

Identity Politics and Moral Absolutes

44 mins; October 13, 2021

Notes on The American Age - Fame Misfortune: Humoring Posts Posthumously

36 mins; October 04, 2021

The Expert in the Rye: What Makes or Breaks Credibility?

65 hours 21 mins; September 26, 2021

Notes on The American Age - Nicki Minaj: Oral Historian?

26 mins; September 20, 2021

On ”The Hatred of Poetry” by Ben Lerner: The Finite and The Infinite

65 hours 18 mins; September 13, 2021

Notes on The American Age - Sha‘Carri Richardson: Not Just Black and White

25 mins; September 06, 2021

Ignorance and Expertise as Two Flavors of Dystopia

61 hours 0 mins; August 30, 2021

Dystopias: COVID Chronicles and the War of the Networks, Part II

32 mins; August 23, 2021

Dystopias: COVID Chronicles and the War of the Networks, Part I

25 mins; August 16, 2021

Dystopias: Is Glenn Greenwald Chaotic Good? Political Full Circles and Echo Chambers, Part II

37 mins; August 09, 2021

Dystopias: Is Glenn Greenwald Chaotic Good? Political Full Circles and Echo Chambers, Part I

35 mins; August 02, 2021

Dystopias: Rachel Nichols is Canceled in the Name of “Diversity”, Part II

29 mins; July 26, 2021

Dystopias: Rachel Nichols is Canceled in the Name of “Diversity”, Part I

32 mins; July 19, 2021

Forgiveness: For Communities, For Individuals, Part I

25 mins; July 12, 2021

Dystopias: War Zones, Progressives, and Worldviews, Part II

37 mins; July 12, 2021

Dystopias: War Zones, Progressives, and Worldviews, Part I

32 mins; July 05, 2021

Dystopias: Favorite Films and Stories, Part II

32 mins; June 28, 2021

Dystopias: Favorite Films and Stories, Part I

24 mins; June 21, 2021

If: I Could Start My Life Over, I Would, Part II

27 mins; June 14, 2021

If: I Could Start My Life Over, I Would, Part I

22 mins; June 07, 2021

Forgiveness: For Communities, For Individuals, Part II

28 mins; May 31, 2021

Transitions: Forgiveness, Part II

29 mins; May 17, 2021

Transitions: Forgiveness, Part I

22 mins; May 10, 2021

Transitions: Liberation vs Emancipation, Part II

31 mins; May 03, 2021

Transitions: Liberation vs Emancipation, Part I

30 mins; April 26, 2021

Transitions: Civil Disagreements, COVID Journalism, Part II

30 mins; April 19, 2021

Transitions: Civil Disagreements, COVID Journalism, Part I

29 mins; April 12, 2021

Transitions: Changing Minds, Strategic Empathies, Part II

32 mins; April 05, 2021

Transitions: Changing Minds, Strategic Empathies, Part I

31 mins; March 29, 2021

Transitions: Changing Minds, Our Own and Others, Part II

28 mins; March 22, 2021

Transitions: Changing Minds, Our Own and Others, Part I

28 mins; March 15, 2021

Transitions: Personal Stories of Death and Fire, Part II

30 mins; March 08, 2021

Transitions: Personal Stories of Death and Fire, Part I

37 mins; March 01, 2021

Transitions: Impeachment and Other Things, Part II

35 mins; February 22, 2021

Transitions: Impeachment and Other Things, Part I

29 mins; February 15, 2021

Transitions: From Insurrection to… Part II

24 mins; February 08, 2021

Transitions: From Insurrection to… Part I

27 mins; February 01, 2021

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