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Welcome to The American Age Newsletter by me, C. Travis Webb, PhD. I am an ā€œexpertā€ in comparative sociology, civil religion, and running scrappy small businesses with big ambitions and tiny coffers.

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Without an understanding of our deep history, we cannot fathom our complicated present. Human beings have been roaming the earth for tens of thousands of years. We have to keep our past in mind if thereā€™s any hope for the future.

Welcome to The American Age

Welcome to The American Age

The American Age has one objective: to re-ignite zeal for the American idea. Not by provoking nostalgia for what has been, but by inspiring hope for what might be, The American Age takes up the cause of those visionaries who have come before us.

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Tsunamis

Tsunamis

Mountains are on the move. The oceans are growing. Vast shelves of ice are phase shifting. The world is unstable, and has always…

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July 20, 2019, 33 Years Later

July 20, 2019, 33 Years Later

Some time in 2014 I picked this up at a yard sale. It was hard to resist, for a $1, with the day of the title coming up. Arthur C. Clarke, renowned science fiction writer, published this strange, heavy book in 1986, imagining this day in 2019 that would commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the moon landing in 1969. Itā€™s not, Clarke was adamant, an attempt at prophecy, but (as he said of his work generally), ā€œAn inquiry into the Limits of the Possible.ā€

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