Christine Emba is an American journalist whose work focuses on ideas and society. She is a contributing Opinion writer at The New York Times, a board member at the American Institute for Boys and Men, and a host on Vox’s The Gray Area podcast.

Emba is currently based at the American Enterprise Institute, where her work as a senior fellow spans AI, ethics, feminism, masculinity, modern relationships, social norms, religion, and human flourishing. Prior to joining AEI, she was a staff writer at The Atlantic, a columnist and editor at The Washington Post, a Hilton Kramer Fellow in Criticism at The New Criterion, and a deputy editor at the Economist Intelligence Unit.

She was named one of the World’s Top 50 Thinkers by Prospect magazine in 2022, and received the National Press Club’s Nell Minow Award for Cultural Criticism in 2023. Her first book, Rethinking Sex: A Provocation, is about the failures and potential of the sexual revolution in a post-#MeToo world.