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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.

Insurrection: What Should We Be Protecting?

34 mins; January 25, 2021

Knowledge: Insurrection

32 mins; January 18, 2021

Knowledge: Fandom, Social Networks, and Edification

36 mins; January 11, 2021

Knowledge: Comfort vs Responsibility

39 mins; January 04, 2021

Unlucky Days 2020

29 mins; December 28, 2020

Knowledge: What We Avoid Knowing

32 mins; December 21, 2020

Knowledge: How Do We Know What We Know? Part II

31 mins; December 14, 2020

Knowledge: How Do We Know What We Know? Part I

31 mins; December 07, 2020

Slut Shaming: Final Considerations, the Power to Say “Yes” and “No”

29 mins; November 30, 2020

Slut Shaming: Recovery, Liberation, Progress?

29 mins; November 23, 2020

Slut Shaming: Personal Anecdotes and Questions

24 mins; November 16, 2020

Election 2020: Checking In and Checking Out

28 mins; November 09, 2020

Slut Shaming: WAP - A Cardi B Liberation

35 mins; November 02, 2020

Slut Shaming - Introductions

31 mins; October 26, 2020

Teenage Nation: Yearbook Edition — A Look Back

42 mins; October 19, 2020

Teenage Nation: The Children of Covid-19

29 mins; October 12, 2020

Teenage Nation: Remember to Dream Big

29 mins; October 05, 2020

Teenage Nation: The Two State Solution?

25 mins; September 28, 2020

Teenage Nation: When We Were Young, Part 2

29 mins; September 21, 2020

Teenage Nation: When We Were Young

33 mins; September 14, 2020

Middle Class Dreams: Addendum, How to Frame the Story

49 mins; September 07, 2020

Middle Class Dreams: The “Kingdom” of Democracy

28 mins; August 31, 2020

Middle Class Dreams: What Does “Middle Class” Mean?

30 mins; August 24, 2020

Middle Class Dreams: Gentrification is Complicated, Part II

38 mins; August 17, 2020

Middle Class Dreams: Gentrification is Complicated, Part I

29 mins; August 10, 2020

Jeffrey Epstein: How Much Does Innocence Cost? Part II

31 mins; August 03, 2020

Jeffrey Epstein: How Much Does Innocence Cost? Part I

34 mins; July 27, 2020

From Kanye to Hamilton: Part II

40 mins; July 20, 2020

From Kanye to Hamilton: But First, Guns

29 mins; July 13, 2020

The Brownshirts Are Coming: Institutional Force and Reconciliation

38 mins; July 06, 2020

Kente Cloth: Symbols and Sympathies

42 mins; June 29, 2020

Juneteenth: Liberation and Violence

36 mins; June 22, 2020

George Floyd: What Does Progress Look Like?

38 mins; June 15, 2020

George Floyd: Reason and Rage

39 mins; June 08, 2020

Aesthetics: Who Gets to Say It? Part II

30 mins; June 01, 2020

Aesthetics: Who Gets to Say It?

26 mins; May 25, 2020

Aesthetics: What Is "Politically Correct"? Part II

20 mins; May 18, 2020

Aesthetics: What Is "Politically Correct"? Part I

24 mins; May 11, 2020

Covid-19: It's Complicated, and It's Time to Move On

33 mins; May 01, 2020

Covid-19: The Politics of Disease

41 mins; April 24, 2020

Covid-19: Secondary Effects

31 mins; April 17, 2020

Covid-19: The Precarious

39 mins; April 10, 2020

Covid-19: From Shook to Shock and After

37 mins; April 03, 2020

Covid-19: Political Actors and Social Responsibility

36 mins; March 30, 2020

COVID-19: We Interrupt This Program...

36 mins; March 30, 2020

Anger: Introductions

30 mins; March 23, 2020

Community: Wrap-up

36 mins; March 16, 2020

Community: Touching as Ritual

29 mins; March 09, 2020

Community: Death

30 mins; March 02, 2020

Community: What We Run To, What We Run From, Part II

24 mins; February 24, 2020

Community: What We Run To, What We Run From, Part I

24 mins; February 17, 2020

Community: Aspirational

34 mins; February 10, 2020

Community: Introductions

33 mins; February 03, 2020

2020 Election: Check-up

39 mins; January 27, 2020

"They": Recap

32 mins; January 20, 2020

"They": So, What Are the Terms Anyway?

33 mins; January 13, 2020

"They": Alternative Alternatives

31 mins; January 06, 2020

Unlucky Days

31 mins; December 31, 2019

"They": Introductions

35 mins; December 24, 2019

Comedy: Final Thoughts

20 mins; December 16, 2019

Comedy: Patrice O'Neal, Laughing Because It Hurts

40 mins; December 09, 2019

100th Episode

37 mins; December 02, 2019

Comedy: Maria Bamford, How to Maintain Mental Health

29 mins; November 25, 2019

Comedy: Offensive Comedy and Its Virtues

37 mins; November 16, 2019

Humor: What's so funny?

34 mins; November 11, 2019

1619: What Troubles, What Remains?

35 mins; November 04, 2019

1619: Medical Apartheid

36 mins; October 28, 2019

1619: Food, Sugar, and Race

36 mins; October 21, 2019

1619: Music, Blackface, and Performing Freedom

33 mins; October 14, 2019

1619: Music as Cultural Appropriation

34 mins; October 07, 2019

1619: Beyond The New York Times Project

34 mins; September 30, 2019

Climate Change: What We've Learned

33 mins; September 23, 2019

Climate Change: Art as Social Practice

26 mins; September 16, 2019

Climate Change: Revisiting "An Inconvenient Truth"

27 mins; September 09, 2019

Climate Change: Material Memory

36 mins; September 02, 2019

Climate Change: Pop Culture Takes on the Planet

32 mins; August 26, 2019

Climate Change: Who Will Suffer and Who Will Profit

28 mins; August 19, 2019

Toni Morrison: Her Life in Words

34 mins; August 12, 2019

Climate Change: Population Displacement and Poverty

21 mins; August 05, 2019

Climate Change: It's the End of the World as We Know It and I Feel...

30 mins; July 29, 2019

(r)omance: Alternative Lifestyles

32 mins; July 22, 2019

(r)omance: episodic or epic

26 mins; July 15, 2019

(r)omance: Are you difficult?

24 mins; July 08, 2019

(r)omance: What Is It?

26 mins; July 01, 2019

Donald Trump: Bring the System Down and What?

23 mins; June 24, 2019

Donald Trump: The Foucauldian President

28 mins; June 17, 2019

Donald Trump: Media Responsibility

34 mins; June 10, 2019

Donald Trump: Change Agent

30 mins; June 03, 2019

2020 Democrats: How to "Look Presidential"

28 mins; May 27, 2019

2020 Democrats: Joe Biden, a Politician's Politician

28 mins; May 20, 2019

2020 Democrats: Warren, and the Rest

33 mins; May 13, 2019

Michael Jackson: Transforming the Racial Imagination

33 mins; May 06, 2019

Michael Jackson: The One Percenters of Celebrity

26 mins; April 29, 2019

Michael Jackson: Gods Require Sacrifices

34 mins; April 22, 2019

Michael Jackson: How Much Does Innocence Cost?

35 mins; April 15, 2019

Michael Jackson: "Leaving Neverland"

31 mins; April 08, 2019

Michael Jackson: Predator, Performer, King of Pop

33 mins; April 01, 2019

White Misanthropy: Conclusions, on Being Radical and Hopeful about Race in the U.S

35 mins; March 25, 2019

White Misanthropy: How to Stop Being "White" and Start Being "Human"

36 mins; March 18, 2019

White Supremacy: Who is responsible for educating "whites"

34 mins; March 11, 2019

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