Christine Rosen

Christine Rosen is a senior editor of The New Atlantis, where she writes about the social and cultural impact of technology, as well as bioethics and the history of genetics. As a Future Tense Fellow at the New America Foundation, she is working on her forthcoming book The Extinction of Experience, to be published by W. W. Norton in 2016.

Ms. Rosen’s past books have included Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement, a history of the ethical and religious debates surrounding the eugenics movement in the United States (Oxford University Press, 2004), and My Fundamentalist Education, the story of a Christian fundamentalist school in Florida (PublicAffairs, 2005).

She is the editor of Acculturated, a web magazine dedicated to pop culture and virtue that grew out of the book Acculturated (Templeton, 2011), which Ms. Rosen edited (with Naomi Schaefer Riley).

She also writes a monthly column for Commentary magazine, called “The Way We Live Now.”

Ms. Rosen’s essays and reviews have appeared in publications such as The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Weekly Standard, Policy Review, The American Historical Review, and The New England Journal of Medicine. She holds a Ph.D. in History from Emory University and is an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. She lives with her children in Washington, D.C.