{"podcast":{"title":"Magnus Podcast: Conversations from the Catacombs of Liberal Education","slug":"magnus-podcast-conversations-from-the-catacombs-of-liberal-education-251308","podcast_index_feed_id":251308,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/magnuspodcast/feed.xml","website_url":"https://magnuspodcast.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/6237155/Episode_066-2_yxzdkm.png","author":"Albertus Magnus Institute, Inc.","episode_count":100,"summary":"Welcome to Magnus Podcast - a production of the Albertus Magnus Institute, Inc. Imagine an academy deeply rooted and committed to the classical liberal arts, stocked to the brim with well-known, world-class faculty, and universally accessible. Now imagine it being completely affordable, even free. This was the vision of St. Albert the Great, father of classical education: an education that is at once freeing and free. A true and human liberation has always been the promise of an education in the liberal arts. Indeed, for the better part of the last 3,000 years, it was no mystery where one could learn how to cast off the shackles of the world and what to study to achieve that liberated state. In no uncertain terms, the classical liberal arts undoubtedly served as the intellectual foundation of Western Civilization. However, we are no longer a society of free men. The tradition of the liberal arts was left behind in favor of a more “practical” alternative. Many were promised a “liberating” education, and ironically received a soft enslavement. Graduates today are unemployable and inextricably saddled with debt, for an education they were told was “necessary for employment.” Worse st…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-25T20:17:32.696672+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/magnus-podcast-conversations-from-the-catacombs-of-liberal-education-251308"},"episode":{"title":"Ep. 104 - The Dignity of a Liberal Artist","slug":"ep-104-the-dignity-of-a-liberal-artist","published_at":"2024-11-25T16:45:08+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/magnus-podcast-conversations-from-the-catacombs-of-liberal-education-251308/ep-104-the-dignity-of-a-liberal-artist","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/magnus-podcast-conversations-from-the-catacombs-of-liberal-education-251308","url":"https://magnuspodcast.podbean.com/e/ep-104-the-dignity-of-a-liberal-artist/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/zihycf4m93wwzzyq/Podcast_with_Angel_Parham6t9mt.mp3","summary":"Join John Johnson and Angel Adams Parham as they have a discussion about race befitting the dignity of a liberal artist. Angel Adams Parham is Associate Professor of Sociology, senior fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, and Associate Director for the major in Political and Social Thought at the University of Virginia. Through her research in historical sociology, she engages in inquiry that examines the past in order to better understand how to live well in the present and envision wisely for the future. Learn more about the Albertus Magnus Institute! Learn more about Father Owen Carroll","meta_description":"Join John Johnson and Angel Adams Parham as they have a discussion about race befitting the dignity of a liberal artist. Angel Adams Parham is Associate P…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3513,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/magnus-podcast-conversations-from-the-catacombs-of-liberal-education-251308/episodes/ep-104-the-dignity-of-a-liberal-artist/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/magnus-podcast-conversations-from-the-catacombs-of-liberal-education-251308/ep-104-the-dignity-of-a-liberal-artist.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}