Magnus Podcast: Conversations from the Catacombs of Liberal Education

About Magnus Podcast: Conversations from the Catacombs of Liberal Education

Like the early philosophers and theologians before us, we are seeking to nourish our souls, discover the truth, and live in the world, but not of it. Welcome to the Magnus Podcast where John Johnson and Larissa Bianco hope to connect contemporary thinkers to conversations from the catacombs in the classical, Christian tradition before us. The Magnus Podcast is a production of the Albertus Magnus Institute, Inc. Dedicated to the promotion of another sort of learning, the Albertus Magnus Institute seeks to invite all into the truth, ”Omnes ad Veritatem.”

Publisher

Albertus Magnus Institute, Inc.

Category

education · religion & spirituality · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Oct 2019

Latest episode

2 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

8 of 121 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Ep. 127 – AI: Why Universities Need the Humanities More Than Ever

   Joshua Mazrin interviews Dr. Lily Abadal, a philosophy professor, about how AI necessitates the humanities for universities to foster genuine intellectual transformation and humanistic development.

2. 

   31 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Ep. 126 – Regula Basilii: The Memory of God in the Rule of St. Basil

   Host Joshua interviews Dr. Steve Hildebrand about St. Basil's Rule, exploring the memory of God and its enduring wisdom for the Christian life.

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   24 Jul 2026

   Ep. 125 – Christopher Nolan's Odysseus and the Attack on Western Literature

   Host Joshua Mazrin interviews Liza Libes of Pens & Poison about Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" and how modern interpretations risk distorting the enduring voices of Western literature.

Inside a recent episode

Ep. 127 – AI: Why Universities Need the Humanities More Than Ever

Published 2 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] What is a good life? All of those things, what the impact of those is on their disciplines. And one student said this, and I will not forget it, and I've repeated it several times since that conference, is that one of her best friends is an engineer. And he said something that really struck her as a philosophy major that made her realize the importance of the arts and liberal arts in particular in the university. And he said, you know, we as engineers don't have to think about what we build. We just get to build it. almost as like, this is great. You don't have to like get into the weeds of what it is that we're building and like ask those big questions. […]

Who has been a guest on Magnus Podcast: Conversations from the Catacombs of Liberal Education

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• Lily Abadal
• Steve Hildebrand
• Liza Libes
• Dale Ahlquist
• John True Johnson

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