Essay Americana

By: Stephen Ludwig: Writer speaker and podcaster
  • Summary

  • Essay Americana provides insight into American life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries covering work, relationships, history, leadership, self-identity, philosophy, politics, and psychology.
    Stephen Ludwig
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Episodes
  • Hero?
    Nov 10 2021

    This essay is part of the series, "Asphalt Blackboard: Life Lessons from America's Highways." It examines how we are socially programed to respond to a crisis and what it means to be a hero. 

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    13 mins
  • Season 2, Ep. 1 Stranger Relief at Thanksgiving
    Mar 22 2020

    In this time of COVID-19, social distancing, and sheltering in place, why not look at family dynamics in the form of a major holiday? 

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    29 mins
  • Comic Book Blues
    Oct 1 2019

    Art, pop culture, comic books, movies, tv, and compulsive behavior. This episode deals with all that, as well as taking a hard look at when we cut out parts of ourselves in order to "fit in" and what it means to reclaim parts of our personality we should have never let go. 

     

     

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    29 mins

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