You can learn more about the conference and register here. Here’s the full rundown on the lectures I am giving: July 8, 2022 (Friday): Session No. 1 (10:30am EST): How to Set Your Classroom Apart as Sacred Space: Curriculum matters, but so do mood and atmosphere. Many teachers struggle to develop an atmosphere in theirContinue reading “Registration Is Now Open For The 2022 Gibbs Classical Online Summer Conference”
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Gibbs At the Jefferson
View: reading the paper in the lobby of the Jefferson on the last day of the year.
Dressed For The Virginia Regency Ball
This is what I want my children to think of when they think of dancing.
Proverbial: On Hate
The latest episode of Proverbial, Losing Sleep, is on the subject of hate, which I seem to write and lecture about quite often. After you listen to the episode, you might enjoy Hate Is Fashionable Once Again, a survey of contemporary conversations about hate.
A Trade Off
A charismatic leader who does not confess his faults will attract many followers, but no successor.
Snobs
There is nothing the modern man finds quite so pretentious as obedience. Obedience creates a real bond between the ruler and the ruled, the transcendent and the ephemeral, the obeyed and the obedient. This bond is simply not possible for the egalitarian, the radical individual, the self-made man, or the rebel. In the end, whoeverContinue reading “Snobs”
Give Me That Sweet, Prestigious Apostasy
There are Christian parents that are dying for their children to get into schools like this one.
This Season’s Jazz Record
I am so picky about jazz, when I find a new jazz record that I like, I listen to it four or five times a week for months. Chet Baker With 50 Italian Strings is what I’m on now.
Sayings
“A brother offended is not easily won,” and a brother easily offended is never won.
What I Learned By Totaling My Car In The Middle Of Nowhere, 2200 Miles From Home
“Thirty miles from the Grand Canyon, travelling at around sixty miles an hour, I hit a deer with my Subaru Forester. I did not graze the deer, nor did I nick him, brush him, or scrape him. I hit the deer in exactly the way you would want to hit a deer if you wantedContinue reading “What I Learned By Totaling My Car In The Middle Of Nowhere, 2200 Miles From Home”
There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. 