Joshua Gibbs

Self-Portrait In A Very Old Mirror At The Met

Going Max Fischer

I will say this about Do Not Allow Virtual Learning To Steal Our Snow Days, my latest for Circe: I don’t want to be a celebrity, but I am definitely shooting for “folk hero.”

Children Should Be Seen, Not Heard

And everybody is somebody’s child. Episode 49 of Proverbial is available now.

An Actual Conversation

Gibbs: How are you? Kroger cashier: I can’t complain. Gibbs: You could complain, but you don’t. That’s a virtue. Kroger cashier: Ooh, I like that.

My favorite single line of dialogue from any motion picture, a line I repeat often to myself as a sort of consolation, comes from Tom Alfredson’s 2011 film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and it is, “The fanatic is always concealing a secret doubt.” While the line is original, I was reading the proverbs of WilliamContinue reading “Real Psychological Wisdom”

After Denis Villeneuve, Christian Petzold Is The Most Exciting Filmmaker Alive

Phoenix (2014) is about marriage, plain and simple.

Commit To Something

This week’s episode of Proverbial is concerned with a saying of Thomas Aquinas: “I fear the man of one book.” Offensive things are said about modern reading strategies. Enjoy.

A Paradox

If a man would be content with the things he has, he must not be content with things.

Still

Seven years later, I am still sore about Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death. Memory eternal.

Slow Down

Over the last several weeks, I have seen several thoughtful conservative writers quote with approval the saying, “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” As noble and generous as it sounds, I simply don’t believe any reasonable man would make a widow of hisContinue reading “Slow Down”