Christine Emba is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where she focuses on ideas, society, and culture. Her work ranges widely, exploring questions of gender, relationships, philanthropy and the moral economy. Previously, she was an opinion columnist, editor, and editorial board member at The Washington Post. She is also a contributing editor at Comment magazine and an editor at large at Wisdom of Crowds, which includes a podcast and newsletter.
Earlier in her career, Emba was the Hilton Kramer Fellow in Criticism at The New Criterion and a deputy editor at the Economist Intelligence Unit, focusing on technology and innovation. Emba 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.
Emba is based in Washington, DC and is a graduate of Princeton University.