Leah Libresco Sargeant

Professors won’t beat ChatGPT until they persuade students that the content of their classes has real value.  Continue Reading »

The set-up of The Rings of Power might be good for Twitter engagement, but it makes the stakes of the story unclear, and the drama of the characters' individual choices uncompelling. Continue Reading »

Some of the most tactically effective defenses of religious liberty rely on appeals to theories of rights or alliances with candidates who cut against the core of your faith. These strategies can win the battle but lose the war. Continue Reading »

Any community of refuge, especially a Benedict Option community, must find a way for its members to support one another in moving from fear to courage, scarcity to charity, walls to windows. Continue Reading »

In the recent Wonder Woman 1984, Diana isn’t facing down an enemy power, but a distinctly American moral threat. Continue Reading »

We should object to prurient songs and stories because they are fundamentally untruthful—and thus bad art. Continue Reading »

If we struggle to serve God in small things, he may be generous enough to invite us into his service in dramatic ways. Continue Reading »

In order to pray for the people the Devil wants us to see as enemies, we need to see them as people. Continue Reading »

The discipline of medicine is an art of dynamic tension. Continue Reading »

Summer in the Forest, a documentary on Jean Vanier's L’Arche communities for the disabled, reminds us that we are all fragile, and that we must love one another. Continue Reading »