Christine Rosen

Christine Rosen is a senior writer at Commentary Magazine. Previously, she was the managing editor of The Weekly Standard. She is one of the founding editors of the New Atlantis, where she writes about the social and cultural impact of technology, as well as bioethics and the history of genetics. Her forthcoming book, The Extinction of Experience, about technology’s impact on culture, will be published by W.W. Norton in the United States and Bodley Head / Random House in the United Kingdom.

Ms. Rosen’s past books include Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement (Oxford, 2004) and My Fundamentalist Education (PublicAffairs, 2005). She also writes a monthly column about cultural issues for Commentary magazine. Her 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 American Historical Review, and the New England Journal of Medicine. She holds a Ph.D. in History from Emory University. She lives with her children in Washington, D.C.