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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.

White Supremacy: Institutional Misanthropy

37 mins; March 04, 2019

White Supremacy: Structural Impediments to African-American Progress

33 mins; February 25, 2019

White Supremacy: Obama, Excellence, and Black Aspiration

32 mins; February 18, 2019

White Supremacy

35 mins; February 11, 2019

Pornography, Part VI: Race

26 mins; February 04, 2019

Pornography, Part V: Desire and Despair

32 mins; January 28, 2019

Pornography, The Conversation, Part IV: Why Do We Need or Want Pornography?

36 mins; January 21, 2019

Pornography, the Conversation, Part III: Ideology versus Evolution

33 mins; January 14, 2019

Pornography, the Conversation, Part II: Pornography and Public Health

31 mins; January 07, 2019

Unlucky Days Again

30 mins; December 31, 2018

Role Models: Inspiration or Imitation

30 mins; December 24, 2018

You're Being Watched: Surveillance Now and Then

26 mins; December 17, 2018

Hagiography

37 mins; December 10, 2018

Porn, the Conversation, Part I: Liberty and the Body

41 mins; December 03, 2018

Giving Thanks on Thanksgiving

21 mins; November 22, 2018

Veterans, Part II: Sex, Violence, and Identity

30 mins; November 19, 2018

Veterans: War and Peace, and Sacrifice

32 mins; November 12, 2018

What's Going On: Where Do You Get Your Information?

33 mins; November 05, 2018

Halloween, Horror, and Hamlet: What Scares Us and Why?

32 mins; October 29, 2018

Social Media Selves

33 mins; October 22, 2018

The Global Catastrophe Machine: Why Can’t We Stop Thinking About the End of the World?

27 mins; October 15, 2018

Potlatch Sneakers: The Economics of Social Status

32 mins; October 08, 2018

Triangulating #MeToo: Morality, Ideology, and Desire

37 mins; October 01, 2018

Brett Kavanaugh Meets #MeToo

34 mins; September 24, 2018

Fathers, Part II: How Do We Create Possibility from Pain?

35 mins; September 17, 2018

Picking Your Battles: How to Fight with Principle

18 mins; September 10, 2018

Fathers

34 mins; September 03, 2018

The Noble Lie: The (Necessary)Mythology Called Progress, Part II

36 mins; September 03, 2018

The Noble Lie: Are Some Myths Necessary? Part I

36 mins; September 03, 2018

Why Meme: What's a Meme and Why Do We Make Them?

20 mins; August 20, 2018

Is a Post-colonial Museum Possible?

38 mins; August 05, 2018

Working to Music

34 mins; July 30, 2018

Angry Races: Why Do We Care So Much About Color?

36 mins; July 23, 2018

Poetry: Poems We Love and Why We Love Them

38 mins; July 23, 2018

Sarah Sanders Shunned: Should Justice Constrain Civility

37 mins; July 09, 2018

Toxic Masculinity

34 mins; July 01, 2018

Space Force! Necessity or Inanity

33 mins; June 27, 2018

Twenty-something Looking at Middle Age

31 mins; June 18, 2018

Roseanne: The Weight of an Apology

33 mins; June 11, 2018

Politics in Art: How Much is Too Much

37 mins; May 29, 2018

The Blackening: Playing with Race and Racism

34 mins; May 21, 2018

UFOs

36 mins; May 14, 2018

Michelle Wolf: The Comedian's Sacred Responsibility

31 mins; May 07, 2018

Unwanted Opinions

34 mins; April 26, 2018

Trump or Social Progress

36 mins; April 19, 2018

Being a Middle-aged Graduate Student

28 mins; April 14, 2018

Liberty v. Safety

33 mins; April 09, 2018

Madness in America: Part III

32 mins; April 01, 2018

Madness in American: Part II

40 mins; March 22, 2018

Conservatives in the Trump age

49 mins; March 16, 2018

Madness in America: Part I

43 mins; March 08, 2018

Context Collapse

41 mins; February 28, 2018

Violence in a Free Society

47 mins; February 21, 2018

Moral Responsibility and Corporate America

48 mins; February 20, 2018

David Lynch's Mulholland Drive

44 mins; February 11, 2018

Secrecy In Intimate Relationships

52 mins; February 02, 2018

Public Outrage: Part 2

47 mins; January 24, 2018

Public Outrage: Part 1

41 mins; January 19, 2018

Faith in the Future

47 mins; January 09, 2018

Unlucky Days

59 mins; January 02, 2018

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