Areas of discussion include philosophy, psychology, history, theology, and literature. The overall goal of the podcast is to encourage the reading and study of great ideas to a lay audience in the hopes of rehabilitating liberal learning. When Halston first thought of the podcast’s programming, he settled on the name “Magna Aurea” or “great golden things” in Latin. The notion here being that there
are golden bits of wisdom to be pulled from such works as Plato’s Symposium, Vergil’s Aeneid, Kafka’s Metamorphosis, or Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Each episode is produced in a sound-rich style that includes dialogue with scholars and experts. The goal is to encourage the listener to articulate their own thoughts, think philosophically, and begin a process of liberal learning. The primary goal is to take the audience on a journey of ideas that reveal layers of meaning, significance, and truth that are crucial for developing the mind. Many, if not most, of the guests will be professors and scholars; but the engagement of other experts in the production process will enable the podcast to go beyond confirming what audience members probably already know about the various topics and ideas. Constitution and, in varying degrees, value it’s importance, may be unaware of the controversy that surrounded its design. Who were the Anti-federalists and why were they opposed to the idea of a federalist state?
