Last night, I had dinner with Frank Chilbert, the lower school principal at Mainline Classical in Bryn Mawr, PA. He told me that Mainline Classical did not allow students to have smart phones and neither were students permitted to have social media accounts while they were enrolled. Have a look at their website. It canContinue reading “You Can Ban Smart Phones And Social Media At Your School And Remain Solvent”
Author Archives: Joshua Gibbs
Roe V Wade And Mid-Level Christian Intellectuals
This week, mid-level Christian intellectuals the nation over are trying to decide whether to say anything on social media about the fall of Roe. The options are to say nothing about it or to say something positive about it. For most mid-level Christian intellectuals (10k followers to 100k followers on Twitter, say), saying something positiveContinue reading “Roe V Wade And Mid-Level Christian Intellectuals”
Molly Drake Is Sublime
Jon Paul introduced this record to me on a recent trip to New York City. At times, it sounds like Jules Massenet’s Les amoureuses sont des folles, at times it reminds me of Anne Briggs, at other times it sounds like nursery lullabies. It is fascinating to think of Nick Drake listening to these songs,Continue reading “Molly Drake Is Sublime”
Registration Open For 2022-23 Gibbs Classical Online Classes
Registration is now open for Paradise Lost for Beginners (Fall 2022) and Wisdom Literature for Beginners (Spring 2023). Both classes are open to high school students and above. A good number of adults sign up for Gibbs Classical classes. You can read more about both classes at Gibbs Classical.
Just So You Know
Neither Elena Kagan nor Sonia Sotomayor are married. Kagan never married, and Sotomayor divorced almost forty years ago. And neither of them have any children.
A Discussion Guide For Overhauling Your Writing Program
“Classical Christian schools overhaul their writing programs around every three to four years. This means there is a good chance your school is overhauling their writing program this summer. Before you make any new curriculum purchases or draft new writing requirements for teachers to follow, allow me to humbly suggest you talk through the followingContinue reading “A Discussion Guide For Overhauling Your Writing Program”
A Paradox?
The more we talk about the importance of loving yourself and being yourself, the more prescriptions for antidepressants doctors have to write.
Something Further On The Rhetoric Stage Not Existing
It often happens that as I am working out some new idea, I post something and then delete it hours later when I realize there is far more to the idea than I initially estimated. Suffice to say, I intend to argue at length before the summer is over that–at least so far as highContinue reading “Something Further On The Rhetoric Stage Not Existing”
Proverbial, Episode 100
After a bit of a wait, the one hundredth episode of Proverbial is up now.
There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. 