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The Power Broker’s Retreat from Reality

Leah Libresco October 10, 2024

I spent my summer maternity leave reading The Power Broker (and taking care of the baby!). I was glad to get to write about Caro's masterpiece for Word on Fire. As Moses makes himself sovereign over parks, power plants, bridges, and housing, he unmakes his ability to steward what he has seized. He becomes both… Read More

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Give Parents a Baby Bonus

Leah Libresco September 22, 2024

At Deseret, I'm making the case for a baby bonus as fair and flexible help for parents and children. A “baby bonus” is an effective way to provide support to more families with fewer complications. Every family has unique needs, and flexible assistance can help parents serve the best interests of their children in their… Read More

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Don’t Ask AI to Draw God

Leah Libresco September 6, 2024

I'm at Word on Fire making the case against AI-created devotional art. Each of the children’s books on our “God shelf” has a human hand, heart, and intellect behind it. Each book grew out of the love the author and illustrator had for God, for beauty, and for the little readers to come. Thinking about… Read More

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Colleges Must Offer Formation, Not Amenities

Leah Libresco January 2, 2024

Colleges donors are starting public fights with college administrators. At Deseret, I argue that's a good thing. Colleges should be contested spaces—they need to offer values-informed formation, not a generic education. It will be tempting for schools to keep spending on extraneous amenities to capture students, especially if they see them primarily as customers, not… Read More

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Books I Hope to Read in 2024

Leah Libresco January 1, 2024

Last year, I read all the books I put on my to-read list! (I last accomplished this feat in 2020, when I had a baby... and a pandemic). Overall, my reading has suffered the predictable consequences of having two children (and not counting all the bedtime picture books). I read 88 books and a little… Read More

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My Favorite Books of 2023

Leah Libresco December 20, 2023

It's been a turbulent but mostly good year, with some pileups of new projects, two sisters old enough to play together, and a new job on the horizon for the new year. No novels on my best of the year list, which makes me a little sad, but a lot that I enjoyed on the… Read More

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Making Repair Beautiful

Leah Libresco December 5, 2023

When Plough announced an issue themed around repair, I knew I wanted to interview Grace Russo about her practice of visible mending. When Russo began repairing her clothes, it changed what kinds of new clothes she wanted to buy. When she looked at something on the rack or at a thrift store, she didn’t just… Read More

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The Gospel Comes with a Children’s Potty

Leah Libresco October 10, 2023

I made my Christianity Today debut to argue that churches should welcome children by design... and that means building child sized toilets into their bathrooms. I can see how much easier it is for her to use the child-sized, real-plumbing toilets at her school, but we don’t have the same option at church or at… Read More

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Putting a Price on “Unpaid Work”

Leah Libresco October 8, 2023

At Deseret, I responded to Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek's After Work: The Fight for Free Time, and its thought-provoking ideas about how to value "unpaid work." Labor-saving innovations don’t make as much sense when the work process is valuable, not just the output. When work is evaluated for the formation it gives us, it’s… Read More

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Piecing Together Our Broken Medical System

Leah Libresco October 2, 2023

I loved reading Ilana Yurkiewicz's Fragmented: A Doctor's Quest to Piece Together American Health Care, and I'm glad to have gotten to write about it for National Review. The range of treatments that doctors can offer has gotten more and more advanced. Robotic suturing tools allow surgeons to conduct delicate surgery through minimally invasive laparoscopic… Read More

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