Joshua Gibbs

Pretend It’s A School

Teaching Burke’s Reflections for the fifteenth time, the term “moral imagination” finally became clear to me. I’ve only begun to unravel the idea, but early sketches can be found in the latest episode of Proverbial.

A Stunning Critique of Corporate Virtues (and LinkedIn-TEDTalk Wannabes)

This was made a decade ago and it still fees as searingly fresh as a papercut that hasn’t even started to bleed yet.

Bad Romance

“The way Tod spoke of their relationship to his friends didn’t always seem entirely accurate to Jill. Tod was ambitious, of course, and perhaps this accounted for his tendency of wildly exaggerating how often they saw each other, or his descriptions of what they did when they were together. “We have this thing we doContinue reading “Bad Romance”

Just In Case You Wondered How Bad The USPS Is

This is the tracking history on a package I recently ordered that originally shipped from San Diego. From San Diego to Pittsburgh to New Jersey to Phoenix to New Jersey…

Opening 2024: The Classical Teaching Institute

This summer, my family and I are moving back to Idaho where I will be the director of The Classical Teaching Institute. A website with full details is coming soon.

Spring Sounds

I’ve been listening to this record for more than a decade, but I now firmly associate it with Spring. It was one of three or four records (along with A Soul Ascends and Brian Eno’s Neroli)I listened to every day right after the lockdown began. Tired Sounds of is a contemplative, chastened, immersive, immense, cautiouslyContinue reading “Spring Sounds”

Disputes Between Friends

We generally say, “I don’t want to take sides,” when our conscience tells us the weaker side is morally right.

After The LinkedIn TED Talk Bros Came to Classical Education

“You attend a classical education conference this summer and, while perusing the speaker biographies in the conference program, you come across the following: “Harge Manning is the founder of the Diluvian Consortium, a group of Christian thought leaders who specialize in dynamic vision forwarding, cognitive missional flexibility, core value development, servant viral marketing ethics, and integratedContinue reading “After The LinkedIn TED Talk Bros Came to Classical Education”

The Worst Super Bowl Halftime Show Of All Time

“The badness of the show is easy to see twenty-four years later, and yet it’s not exactly true that it has “aged poorly.” Raw meat ages poorly, but the 2000 Halftime Show was quite, quite rancid on the day it aired—and this was obvious at the time to anyone who had even a modicum ofContinue reading “The Worst Super Bowl Halftime Show Of All Time”

Amazing Things I Would Like To Hear

“I want to be respectful of everyone’s time so I’m going to cancel this meeting immediately and just send an email later tonight.”