Correspondence | Summer 2026
A State That Supports Families, or a State-Shaped Family?
Leah Libresco Sargeant and Rita Koganzon debate The Dignity of Dependence.
Rita Koganzon
Rita Koganzon is associate professor in the School of Civic Life and Leadership at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of Liberal States, Authoritarian Families: Childhood and Education in Early Modern Thought (Oxford University Press, 2021).
In The New Atlantis
Review | Spring 2026
Who Wants Populist Family Policy?
There is a good reason why thick state support for mothers and caregivers hasn’t taken off in America.
Review | Spring 2015
Review | Spring 2011
Review | Summer 2008
Other Publications
- “Rumor Has It," Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2012
- “Producing a Reconciliation of Disinterestedness and Commerce: The Political Rhetoric of Education in the Early Republic,” Barnard Prize Essay. History of Education Quarterly 52, August 2012
- “Herman Sinaiko: In memoriam,” The Midway Review, Autumn 2011
- “The Internship Problem,” National Review Online, June 21, 2011
- “All Camped Out,” Doublethink Magazine, Fall 2009. Reprinted in Signs of Life in the USA: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers, edited by Sonia Maasik and Jack Solomon (New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2011)
- “Ben Franklin’s Vision,” Policy Review, April/May 2009
- “The Self-Made Man,” Doublethink Online, May 29, 2008
- “The Ben Franklin Effect,” Doublethink Online, November 9, 2007"