Magnus Podcast: Conversations from the Catacombs of Liberal Education

"What is the best way of life for a human being?" The Republic is the most complete attempt by Plato to articulate and answer this question. It is characteristic of Plato that, in the Republic, questi...

27 Juli 202351min

Musician and composer, Greg Wilbur of New College Franklin contemplates music within the quadrivium; he explains why music ought to be ordered rightly in education and how it rests in harmony with the...

20 Juli 202352min

“Take courage daughter, the world is not as strong as it seems.”  From the diary of Maria Faustina Brian Fink has returned to the Magnus Podcast to discuss what it means to see reality as it is: to se...

27 Juni 202354min

This conversation with Dr. Gary Hartenburg looks at education from a bird’s-eye view before zooming into talk about virtue, specifically the virtue of prudence, according to Aristotle, and ends with l...

16 Juni 20231h 5min

Earlier this spring, we hosted a lovely webinar on one of the most playful of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, The Nun's Priest's Tale of Chanticleer and the Fox. Now we're releasing it as a podcast so you...

6 Juni 20231h 24min

How does man know? What are the roles of signs in knowing? What does “meaning” mean? What does man want to know? What are the objects to knowing? In this episode, Dr. Brian Kemple of the Lyceum Instit...

26 Maj 20231h 7min

“We can’t teach the humanities unless the students have been humanized." In this episode, Dr. Jared Staudt discusses the text, Newman’s Idea of A University, and begs the question, ”What does it mean ...

19 Maj 202344min

Across the sea, Charles III has just been coronated King of England and much ado was made in his and his country’s honor.  On our homeland, America is, as always, in the throes of her own democratic c...

12 Maj 20231h 14min