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1 month ago | 
benjaminchristenson.com | Leah Libresco Sargeant |Ben Christenson |Rod Dreher
I find hosting confusing. Are we supposed to do “scruffy hospitality”—inviting people into our homes and lives “as is” rather than all tidied up, offering spaghetti and meatballs on paper plates rather than an elaborate hors d'oeuvres spread? Or is brunch hell and a true dinner party the only acceptable way of having guests over? If everyone’s so lonely, why does it take so much effort to get anyone to commit and show up for something? Is there any way to avoid the epidemic of last-minute flaking?
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
businessandamerica.com | Leah Libresco Sargeant |Daniel Darling
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
nationalreview.com | Leah Libresco Sargeant |Daniel Darling
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
niskanencenter.org | Joshua T. McCabe |Leah Libresco Sargeant
The approaching expiration of the temporary provisions in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), combined with growing concerns about the deficit and national debt, has reignited debates over whether Congress can justify extending this signature Republican tax legislation. The headline price tag for extension–which would add trillions to the deficit–belies a complex mix of provisions with varying net costs.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
thedispatch.com | Leah Libresco Sargeant |Katherine Dee |Flagg Taylor |Melissa S. Kearney
The Monday Essay How the push for medical aid in dying distorts our understanding of life. By Published January 13, 2025 I changed my mind about euthanasia in June 2015. Until then, I had favored making “death with dignity” accessible so that people could avoid the hardest part of dying. I believed (and still do) that medicine often prioritizes length of life over quality of life. I did (and do) hate the framing of a “battle” with a terminal illness that is eventually lost.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
pillarcatholic.com | Leah Libresco Sargeant
After controversy over the prospect of exam-day accommodations, a pregnant Georgetown law student said Friday that her university should make a public commitment to reforming policies for pregnant students, and others needing academic accommodations at the Washington Catholic school. Brittany Lovely, a second year law student at Georgetown, is expecting a baby in early December. Knowing that, she asked early this semester whether she could take a Dec. 13 criminal law final exam on Dec.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
brownpelicanla.com | Leah Libresco Sargeant
By Leah Libresco Sargeant, First Things, Nov. 21, 2024Leah Libresco Sargeant is the author of Arriving at Amen and Building the Benedict Option. America is missing children because it’s missing marriages. However, fixing our fertility gap won’t happen by pressuring or humiliating singles. It requires fixing the broken dating cultures that are delaying marriage formation and leaving men and women feeling resentful of each other.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
firstthings.com | Leah Libresco Sargeant
America is missing children because it’s missing marriages. However, fixing our fertility gap won’t happen by pressuring or humiliating singles. It requires fixing the broken dating cultures that are delaying marriage formation and leaving men and women feeling resentful of each other. The vast majority of young adults want to get married, but more and more find it isn’t working out as they expect. As a result, half of America’s drop in fertility is explained by the drop in marriage formation.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
pillarcatholic.com | Leah Libresco Sargeant
When I pick up a new picture book, to read to my children aged four, two, and just five months, I usually prompt a lot of questions. And when my kids haul over Meg Hunter-Kilmer’s compendium of “Saints Around the World,” I know I need to be ready for questions about geography, kingship, and when it’s okay to break the rules.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
stephaniehmurray.substack.com | Stephanie Murray |Leah Libresco Sargeant
Hello! Just in case you don’t know who I am, my name is Stephanie H. Murray. I am a freelance journalist and contributing writer at The Atlantic. I write about a lot of things but I really liked the way summed up the focus of my work in a recent interview we did together: “parenting and, more broadly, what we owe to one another.” Anyway, I am starting a newsletter! I will probably not be publishing many essays or reported pieces here.
