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2014-03-12T16:59:04-04:00

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A Reporter’s Prayer

Last updated on: March 12, 2014 at 4:59 pm By Leah Libresco

My friends have been asking me what I’m doing for Lent, and I don’t have much to say. I deleted an addictive phone game, but that was less a penitential discipline and more an act of self-preservation. Since my madly-in-love-with-Kant teenage years, I do like rules, but I’m not sure that I’m actually doing anything good for myself by taking on fasting rules (on top of my same-meals-every-day picky eating) or new prayers (especially while in the midst of the... Read more

Morality in Practice

2014-03-11T11:53:38-04:00

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Speaking through Song

Last updated on: March 11, 2014 at 11:53 am By Leah Libresco

Like nearly everyone, I found the New York Times Magazine piece on the family that learned to communicate with their autistic son through his love of Disney really moving to read. I recommend the whole thing. Not to mention, as someone who had both “translation” and “trouble with EQ” turn up on that bingo board Christian made, I found this part particularly interesting: But what draws kids like Owen to these movies is something even more elemental. Walt Disney told his... Read more

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2014-03-10T17:50:58-04:00

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What do we choose instead of Light? [Pope Francis Bookclub]

Last updated on: March 10, 2014 at 5:50 pm By Leah Libresco

In 2014, I’m reading and blogging through Pope Francis/Cardinal Bergoglio’s Open Mind, Faithful Heart: Reflections on Following Jesus. Every Monday, I’ll be writing about the next meditation in the book, so you’re welcome to peruse them all and/or read along. This week’s chapter of Pope Francis’s Open Mind, Faithful Heart: Reflections on Following Jesus ends with two questions to consider in prayer and reflection: Do we pray to God for the grace of conversion? At what times in our lives have we preferred the darkness... Read more

Morality in Practice

Pope Francis bookclub

2014-03-10T10:00:28-04:00

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Maybe I should add this bingo board to my about page?

Last updated on: March 10, 2014 at 10:00 am By Leah Libresco

Yesterday, I joked that the final article listed in my round-up of recent AmCon posts was probably full of enough of my favorite things for some of you to score a victory on your Leah!tropes bingo cards. And then, lo, by the time I had come back from Mass and dinner, Christian H of The Thinking Grounds had actually put boards together. If you’d like to randomize up your own, or design boards for other purposes, here’s how he did... Read more

Housekeeping

2014-03-09T13:33:24-04:00

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Three Radical Disruptions: Cyberwar, Drones, and Apprenticeships

Last updated on: March 9, 2014 at 1:33 pm By Leah Libresco

I’ve spent this weekend at CPAC on a press pass, and I’ll post a roundup of the work I did there on Tuesday, but, while I catch up on sleep, I wanted to share some of the non-CPAC AmCon pieces I’ve written recently. Since my last day-job update, I’ve had two politics posts and one on culture/education: Cyberattacks on Syria Put the Homefront in Danger Instead of targeting enemy soldiers, cyberwar targets enemy infrastructure. Just as your own computer... Read more

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2014-03-08T10:35:35-05:00

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Speaking at the CIC on March 19th

Last updated on: March 8, 2014 at 10:35 am By Leah Libresco

I’ll be joining two other writers from Fare Forward at the DC Catholic Information Center for a panel discussion on ambition and vocation. My fellow speakers are: ANDREW C. QUINN: a Washington, D.C.-based writer, researcher, and musician. He studies public policy and human happiness at the American Enterprise Institute and is a regular contributor to AEI Ideas and The Federalist. His commentary on politics and policy has been featured in RealClearPolitics, RealClearPolicy, and The Transom. Andrew is a native Midwesterner, a... Read more

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speaking engagements

2014-03-07T07:22:08-05:00

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7 Quick Takes (3/7/14)

Last updated on: March 7, 2014 at 7:22 am By Leah Libresco

— 1 — The most delightful thing I read this week is probably this post from The Toast: “Sherlock Reviews Musicals He Was Forced To Attend With His Parents.” In the most recent season of Sherlock (no important spoilers, I promise) we meet Sherlock and Mycroft’s parents and learn that the boys are none to eager to accompany them to the theatre. I was pleased to find that, in the opinion of this essayist, the Holmes parents liked to drag the... Read more

7 Quick Takes

2014-03-06T12:01:48-05:00

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Auditing “Addictions” During Lent

Last updated on: March 6, 2014 at 12:01 pm By Leah Libresco

Paul Graham, the founder of YCombinator (a start up incubator) has an essay that makes a very appropriate meditation for Lent. In “The Acceleration of Addiction”, he writes: The world is more addictive than it was 40 years ago. And unless the forms of technological progress that produced these things are subject to different laws than technological progress in general, the world will get more addictive in the next 40 years than it did in the last 40. The next... Read more

Morality in Practice

2014-03-05T10:02:23-05:00

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Girding My Loins for Lent [Pope Francis Bookclub]

Last updated on: March 5, 2014 at 10:02 am By Leah Libresco

In 2014, I’m reading and blogging through Pope Francis/Cardinal Bergoglio’s Open Mind, Faithful Heart: Reflections on Following Jesus. Every Monday, I’ll be writing about the next meditation in the book, so you’re welcome to peruse them all and/or read along. In this week’s chapter of Pope Francis’s book, he quotes a letter by St. Ignatius of Loyola that seemed particularly appropriate for Lent: Experiencing difficulty is nothing exceptional; rather it is what ordinarily happens in matters of much importance for the divine service... Read more

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Pope Francis bookclub

2014-03-04T11:47:01-05:00

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Sex as a How Do You Do?

Last updated on: March 4, 2014 at 11:47 am By Leah Libresco

I was having a conversation about sex and sensibility with a friend the other afternoon, and she raised a social objection to the Catholic position on chastity. She’s not Catholic (or Christian generally) herself, but had been contrasting a more fallow sexual period with a more recent choice to “sleep with everyone I wanted to sleep with.” She said the latter course of action was a lot less lonely, and she got to know more people more deeply than she... Read more

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