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Ideas editor Valerie Pavilonis invites Dispatch contributor Leah Libresco Sargeant to discuss her new book, The Dignity of Dependence: A Feminist Manifesto, and the false ideal of the human person as strongest alone.
Show Notes:
Valerie is Ideas Editor at The Dispatch, based in New York City. Prior to joining the company in 2025, she worked at The New York Times and NewsGuard Technologies. When Valerie isn’t commissioning and editing the next big essay for The Dispatch, she is probably people-watching in a funky cafe or scheming up her next oddly-themed party.
Leah Libresco Sargeant is a contributing writer at The Dispatch, and the author of ‘Building the Benedict Option’ and the Other Feminisms Substack. Her next book, ‘The Dignity of Dependence,’ is out this fall.
Read more from Leah Libresco at otherfeminisms.com
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