I wrote about Leah Libresco Sargeant in my 2017 book How to Think, so I’ve been keeping tabs on her for a long time. I’m going to blog about her new book The Dignity of Dependence when I can dig myself out of the current morass, but in the meantime, she’s great in this conversation with Ross Douthat.
@ayjay So good. I am repeatedly gobsmacked at her combination of lucidity and precision. Took our 17 yr old daughter to hear her in town a couple of weeks ago; Freddie could easily follow and Leah’s arguments are always fresh and bracing for the intellectuals in the room.
@ablerism Lucidity is the key virtue, I think: she has such a wonderful ability to make difficult concepts graspable.
