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A Breast Pump Designed for Your Boss

Leah Libresco September 19, 2022

In "Designing Women," I'm writing at Comment on how the tools intended for women often serve the interests of someone else. I'm very much indebted to Designing Motherhood, which I …

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How Do We Value Care Work?

Leah Libresco September 12, 2022

As the cover story for Mere Orthodoxy's third issue, I wrote on how we value care work, and the thin line between humility and degradation. A care worker knows that …

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Avoiding Pitting Mothers Against Babies

Leah Libresco July 4, 2022

Both pro-life and pro-choice people all support saving the life of a woman who has an ectopic pregnancy. I wrote about my own experience losing my child, Camillian, in an …

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Family Policy Can’t Be Gender Neutral

Leah Libresco May 6, 2022

For Mother's Day, I wrote for Deseret on why gender neutral family policy tends to shortchange mothers. In an uneventful pregnancy, a mother will still have a harder timechan than …

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Sacrifice Is Not a Therapy

Leah Libresco January 21, 2022

As the Omicron wave crested in January, many institutions tried to do more and seemed to assume that the more intrusive or inconvenient a restriction, the more powerful it was. …

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Lyme and Literacy in Suffering

Leah Libresco October 28, 2021

I got to read and review Ross Douthat's memoir of Lyme disease, The Deep Places for National Review. The book is thought-provoking and unsettling. It is as much about how …

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Penance and Public Shaming

Leah Libresco May 29, 2021

I was glad to get the chance to make my Bulwark debut with an essay on a question I've been wrestling with for some time: "What do we do with …

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Let the Body Testify

Leah Libresco May 27, 2021

In the "Creatures" issue of Plough, I wrote a feature article on how women translate their pain and their experiences to make them legible to a world shaped by male …

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Why Pro-Life Catholics Should Get Vaccinated

Leah Libresco April 17, 2021

In The New York Times, I made the case for pro-life Catholics to get covid vaccines, despite their dependence on cell lines derived from aborted children. Even people who are …

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How The Government Wasted Our Pandemic Sacrifices

Leah Libresco March 8, 2021

In my first piece for The Week, I'm discussing why the lack of high-quality masks is our pandemic failures in miniature. Throughout the pandemic, Americans have made extraordinary sacrifices to …

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Cramming Child Care into CHIPS

Leah Libresco March 7, 2023

At Deseret, I make the case against the child care benefit in the fine print of CHIPS, which would make child care a work-administered benefit at some semiconductor plants. Making child care a work-linked benefit means repeating all the problems of the employer-linked insurance and retirement plans, and adding a more serious problem. Child care… Read More

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Embracing Amateurism in the Face of AI

Leah Libresco January 20, 2023

As Chat-GPT and other machine learning models make it easier to generate text and art, I wrote in praise of doing something yourself, even if you do it badly, in Deseret. When you choose to be bad at something, you get to experience the joy of being an amateur in the classical sense. Today, “amateur”… Read More

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Books I Hope to Read in 2023

Leah Libresco January 5, 2023

2022 had the most babies and the fewest books read, both in total, and off of my "to read" list for the year. This was predictable. I read 7/11 of my "to read" books, and 85 books/26k pages across the year. Nothing earlier than 1950, either, I think (though Goodreads gets this wrong if I… Read More

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The Best and Worst of Rings of Power

Leah Libresco December 21, 2022

I wrote about Rings of Power for both First Things and Mere Orthodoxy. There's potential in the show, but the first season fell far short of good storytelling. At First Things, I wrote about the moral muddle of its structure: Tolkien’s stories aren’t mystery boxes. His characters have a very clear idea of what is… Read More

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The Race to the Bottom in Sports Gambling

Leah Libresco December 11, 2022

At Deseret, I'm writing on the particular perversity of legalized sports gambling. States touting possible revenue from taxes aim to profit from the degradation of their citizens. It’s as though a state instituted a tax on adultery, and then began promoting websites like AshleyMadison and held press conferences with prostitution rings. By advertising invitations to… Read More

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My Favorite Books of 2022

Leah Libresco November 28, 2022

This year began with a baby, had a move in the middle, and I'm now getting to discover what normal might look like in our new state. These were my favorite books I read over the course of the year, listed in roughly chronological order. Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society… Read More

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The Cost of Evading Moral Argument

Leah Libresco October 25, 2022

At Deseret, I'm writing about the hamstrung compromises we get when people disagree on moral grounds but fight on practical grounds. I'm writing specifically on the death penalty, but it's only one, particularly painful example, of how America sometimes makes a controversial policy legal but impossible. For years, the moral issue of the death penalty… Read More

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Reckoning With Reality

Leah Libresco October 17, 2022

I got to write for National Review on why vocational education and home economics should be part of everyone's education. These tracks are exercises in truth-telling and help make good citizens. In effect, our goods are leased, not owned. Even if we’ve paid for them outright, they are designed to be beyond us and to… Read More

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How Reversible are LARCs?

Leah Libresco September 28, 2022

For a long time, I've wondered how easy it is for poor women to get IUDs removed. Long active reversible contraception (LARCs) are strongly recommended for poor women, but they can face the greatest barriers to seeing a doctor, and can be stuck, unable to have the children they want. I was glad to get… Read More

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A Breast Pump Designed for Your Boss

Leah Libresco September 19, 2022

In "Designing Women," I'm writing at Comment on how the tools intended for women often serve the interests of someone else. I'm very much indebted to Designing Motherhood, which I draw on in the piece. A doctor’s office and tools are more often designed for the convenience of the doctor, not the patient. A breast… Read More

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