Christine Rosen

Christine Rosen is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where she focuses on American history, society and culture, and technology and human behavior. She is also a monthly columnist for Commentary magazine, one of the cohosts of The Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast, a fellow at the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, and senior editor at The New Atlantis. She was previously a distinguished visiting scholar at the Library of Congress.

Rosen is the author or coauthor of many books and book chapters. Her books include The Extinction of Experience (W. W. Norton, 2024); My Fundamentalist Education: A Memoir of a Divine Girlhood (PublicAffairs, 2005), which was named one of the best nonfiction books of the year by the Washington Post; and Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement (Oxford University Press, 2004). Her opinion pieces, articles, and reviews have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, National Affairs, National Review, the New Atlantis, the New Republic, the New York Times, MIT Technology Review, Politico, Slate, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the New England Journal of Medicine, among other outlets.

Rosen has a PhD in history, with a major in American intellectual history, from Emory University, and a BA in history from the University of South Florida. She also holds a third-degree black belt in aikido and is a martial arts instructor. She lives with her family in Washington, D.C.