Is reading good books, watching good movies, and preferring good art a matter of subjective taste or objective reasoning? And if it’s objective, does that mean there’s a wrong preference for these things? Even a …moral wrong? Tsh talks with one of her favorite current thinkers and writers, Joshua Gibbs, about what it means to wisely know the difference between mediocre, common, and uncommon things, and why it matters beyond mere taste that we love that which lasts.

* Love What Lasts, by Joshua Gibbs

* Joshua’s annual summer conference

* Joshua’s podcast, Proverbial

* Joshua’s blog for CiRCE, The Cedar Room

* Joshua’s articles on ChatGPT and terrible family films

* Tsh’s Newsletter & Website

* Pick up a round of drinks

* Recommended reads

* The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri (plus Dorothy Sayers’ notes)

* The Once and Future King, by T.H. White

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