{"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. 117 - Purgatorio and Love? with Dr. Anthony Esolen","slug":"ep-117-purgatorio-and-love-with-dr-anthony-esolen","published_at":"2026-03-17T18:17:43+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/magnus-podcast-conversations-from-the-catacombs-of-liberal-education-251308/ep-117-purgatorio-and-love-with-dr-anthony-esolen","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/magnus-podcast-conversations-from-the-catacombs-of-liberal-education-251308","url":"https://magnuspodcast.podbean.com/e/ep-117-purgatorio-and-love-with-dr-anthony-esolen/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/y2u88e984iejw4t4/Dante_Purgatorio_Lent_Podcast_Esolen_317267c4nx.mp3","summary":"When one thinks of Purgatory, especially as described in Dante's Purgatorio, love is not the first thing that comes to mind. In this episode, Dr. Anthony Esolen leads a seminar from his Magnus Fellowship course \"Into the World Beyond, With Dante\" on the theme of love through the purification in Dante's Purgatorio, much like our own purging that purifies our love during the season of Lent.","meta_description":"When one thinks of Purgatory, especially as described in Dante's Purgatorio, love is not the first thing that comes to mind. In this episode, Dr. Anthony…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5823,"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-117-purgatorio-and-love-with-dr-anthony-esolen/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-117-purgatorio-and-love-with-dr-anthony-esolen.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}