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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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The Case for Unconditional Child Allowance

Leah Libresco February 18, 2021

I defend the Romney child allowance plan against criticism from Senators Marco Rubio and Mike Lee in The New York Times. The senators called the Romney proposal “welfare assistance” and …

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Snow Days and Slack

Leah Libresco February 5, 2021

The covidtide winter was already hard, and then schools started doing away with snow days in favor of digital school. I'm at Breaking Ground defending the snow day and its …

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Defending Dependence

Leah Libresco November 26, 2020

My essay, "Dependence: Toward an Illiberalism of the Weak" is part of Plough's Family issue. Everyone is dependent (at least some of the time) but women have a much harder …

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Asserting Individual Freedom from Individualism

Leah Libresco June 7, 2022

I had the pleasure of reviewing American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York for First Things. The book is a legal history of the struggles of this Jewish enclave to run itself independently of the surrounding town. It's a fascinating story, especially in the context of certain disagreements… Read More

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The Long Wait for Weddings

Leah Libresco May 16, 2022

As America geared up for a wedding boom in the summer of 2022, I wrote about the obstacles that disrupt weddings and other communal rites of passage in non-covid times. No matter how stripped down the ceremony, people need to be able to plan travel. The people we love are too scattered for spontaneity. We… Read More

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A Better Way to Debate Abortion

Leah Libresco May 9, 2022

Shortly after the draft Dobbs decision leaked, I wrote a piece for America, reflecting on the time I invited friends to come to my house and have a better fight about abortion. In 2016, I opened my doors for what I expected would be the worst event I would ever host. In the wake of… Read More

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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 her partner as she navigates fatigue, nausea and pain. Drawing attention to these difficulties can feel like letting other women down — if women carry… Read More

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When Need Comes Knocking

Leah Libresco April 20, 2022

As Ukrainian refugees streamed into Europe, people near and far looked for a way to help. I'm at Deseret, writing about one crowdsourced site for opening your hope to those in needs, and discussing what that practice can look like far from a war zone. When need comes knocking, it changes the way we see… Read More

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Rethinking Sex with Christine Emba

Leah Libresco March 28, 2022

I got to interview Christine Emba about her new book Rethinking Sex: A Provocation. The full interview is embedded below, and the Institute for Family Studies ran an excerpt as part of their "Five Questions for..." series. We also had a lively conversation in the comments of Other Feminisms. Here's an excerpt: Sargeant: It feels like… Read More

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The Olympic Disciplines that Destroy the Body

Leah Libresco February 12, 2022

I'm at Deseret, making my case against a number of Winter Olympic sports that destroy bodies, rather than reveal their excellence. Ladies' quads in figure skating are particularly destructive. Quads don’t work for older skaters. The physics get hard once a skater is past puberty and begins to develop a woman’s body. Restrictive eating can… Read More

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There’s No Neutral Answer to When Life Begins

Leah Libresco January 28, 2022

For my first piece in Deseret News, I'm analyzing a line of argument in Dobbs, claiming that that the question of when life begins is beyond what government can answer. But this question isn't uniquely the domain of religion—everyone needs to be able to furnish and defend an answer. Where a loose consensus prevails, it… Read More

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Encanto and the Benedict Option

Leah Libresco January 25, 2022

Encanto doesn't have a conventional Disney villain, because the musical is about learning to live in safety, putting aside the bad habits that come from fear and scarcity. I covered the musical for First Things, with a particular emphasis on the parallel dangers for Christians. The village is not so different from a Benedict Option… Read More

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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. I talk about why this is the wrong way to think about medicine at The New Atlantis. They assume that our safety is proportional to… Read More

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