Hi.

I’m Christine Emba.

Welcome to The Editrix, a pay-what-you-will (for now, anyways) newsletter. This is a place for musings on ideas, culture, social norms — the way we live now. You’ll get to read my ideas both formed and unformed on topics across the spectrum, especially the questions I’m still working out.

It’s also where I’ll share updates on my book Rethinking Sex: A Provocation, information on appearances (public or otherwise), links to new writing, and first looks at *special projects.*

Where do you know me from?

Most of my writing earlier writing was at The Washington Post, where I was an opinion columnist with the oddly broad beat of “ideas and society.” I then moved to The Atlantic and am now an Opinion contributor at The New York Times.

I’m also the author of the aforementioned Rethinking Sex: A Provocation (2022), a book which grapples with consent, feminism, and the dissatisfactions of modern romantic culture.

I’m also an editor-at-large with the Wisdom of Crowds platform and podcast. And behind all of that, I’m a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. (Yes, lots of sidequests, including many not mentioned here.)

And alas, I also tweet. (For now!) And I’m on insta. And Threads and Bluesky (once in a blue moon). Possibly tiktok, but you’ll never find me and I discourage your attempts to try.

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