Joshua Gibbs

Not A Coincidence

Around the same time scientists gave parents the ability to choose the sex of their children, politicians gave children the ability to reverse the decisions their parents made. Sexual assignment invariably led to sexual reassignment. What parents would not leave to nature, neither would their children.

Top-Down-Fullness

My latest for CiRCE is really more of a McSweeney’s piece, but I’ve collected too many rejection letters from that place to send them anything else. Of the piece, I would add this: There is no fashionable big corporate banality which is not a temptation for private education, as well.

So Tawdry

A tried and true way of climbing the ranks of the online intellectual world: pick a fight with someone just a little bigger than you, hope they respond, win a little web traffic in the process.

Music For Nine Post Cards

It is a good day for the music of Hiroshi Yoshimura.

Preview

Thursday night: the dangers of Patreon intellectuals, how the wellness industry has spread into private education, the feel-good flattery of bloggers whose ad revenue depends on telling everyone, “Society demands too much of people like you,” and more. Sign up for the GibbsClassical.com mailing list for a link to “Intellectual Honesty in an Age ofContinue reading “Preview”

There Was No Other Header Image That Would Work For This One

The inexperienced man trusts human beings; the experienced man trusts human nature. The inexperienced man finds common sense offensive and cruel; the experienced man knows the alternatives to common sense are crueler still. My latest for CiRCE is a series of proverbs about experience.

In Loco Parentis

My lecture Thursday night, “Intellectual Honesty in an Age of Flattery,” will gloss an increasingly troublesome conception of the classical Christian classroom as “a safe space where none of my son’s ideas about god, politics, and video games are ever challenged.” To sign up for the GibbsClassical.com mailing list and receive a link to thisContinue reading “In Loco Parentis”

What The Wellness Industry Has Done To Us

Tom: How did you sleep last night? Harry: Eh, not so great. Tom: Did it take you a long time to fall asleep? Harry: No. Tom: Did you wake up often in the night? Harry: No, it wasn’t that either. Tom: Did you wake up early and have a hard time falling back to sleep?Continue reading “What The Wellness Industry Has Done To Us”

The Best Film of 2020

For the record, there are two great filmmakers working today who happen to be Christians: Whit Stillman and John Patrick Shanley. Shanley’s Wild Mountain Thyme was both weird and conventional, traditional and Shakespearean, and included a number of scenes so thematically rich, I was already looking forward to my third or fourth viewing. It hasContinue reading “The Best Film of 2020”

Sing Night And Day

This song is overwhelmingly beautiful. Britten does more in these one hundred seconds than many other competent composers can accomplish in forty minutes.