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1 week ago | 
wsj.com | Christine Rosen
Our culture supports so many types of celebrity—online influencers, YouTube stars, Hollywood actors, reality-TV contestants—that it is easy to forget how recent this market saturation is. In the early 20th century, genuine celebrity was rare, which is what makes Claire Hoffman’s telling of the story of Aimee Semple McPherson so compelling.
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1 week ago | 
commentary.org | Christine Rosen
The orchid was once an expensive, highly cultivated symbol of refinement; now, cheaper cultivars can be found in almost any grocery store. Perhaps that makes it a fitting image for a new fertility company, Orchid Health, that seeks to encourage parents to breed better children. Orchid Health is one of several Silicon Valley start-ups that want to revolutionize genetic testing and the fertility industry. "Have Healthy Babies," its website commands.
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2 weeks ago | 
aei.org | With Yuval Levin |Christine Rosen |Yuval Levin |Nat Malkus
As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, American democracy faces profound challenges in the form of declining trust in institutions and growing political and cultural divides. While policy solutions and institutional reforms are essential, they are not enough. The strength of our democracy depends on a civic culture that sustains it. Can we foster a shared set of norms, values, and beliefs that empower our institutions and help us navigate our differences?
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3 weeks ago | 
mosaicmagazine.com | Christine Rosen
Today, it is not uncommon for daily activities to be mediated through data-gathering screens: when you are putting gas in your car at the gas station, the screen prompts you to respond to a survey, as does the credit-card checkout device held by your server at a restaurant. How would you rate your gas-station experience today on a scale of 1 to 5?
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1 month ago | 
commentary.org | Christine Rosen
Late last year, when Luigi Mangione was arrested and charged with the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, something unexpected happened: A lot of people praised him for his actions, elevating Mangione to the status of secular saint for gunning down a man in cold blood.
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1 month ago | 
commentary.org | John Podhoretz |Matthew Continetti |Christine Rosen |Meir Soloveichik
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1 month ago | 
theraisedhand.substack.com | Christine Rosen
Christine Rosen is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Her most recent book is The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World. This is the sixth essay in our series addressing the question: “What does every university and college student need to learn?”When asked what every university and college student needs to learn, it is tempting to offer a list of Great Books that have disappeared from higher education and from the minds of today’s students.
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2 months ago | 
manhattan.institute | Matthew Self |Ed Whelan |David Gay |Christine Rosen
Joseph Figliolia discusses the tightening restrictions on youth gender transitions and growing pushback against gender-affirming care in the U.S. and U.K.
On Tuesday, the Kansas Senate voted 31-9 to override Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of the “Help Not Harm Act,” a bill prohibiting minors from accessing sex-trait modification interventions. Similarly, the Kansas House voted 84-35 in favor of the veto override, allowing the embattled bill to become law despite Kelly’s disapproval.
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2 months ago | 
commentary.org | Christine Rosen
Eight days into his second go-round as president, Donald Trump issued an executive order "Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation." The order fulfilled one of Trump's most popular campaign promises; it states that the government will no longer "fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called 'transition' of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures." It specifically...
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2 months ago | 
aei.org | Christine Rosen
In the beginning, there was the Facebook “friend.” In 2006, when Facebook became available to anyone with an email address, it changed our understanding of friendship in subtle yet permanent ways. Accumulating Facebook “friends” became a way to publicize and garner attention for one’s connections. “Friends” signaled one’s status in the online world, but it also made such relationships more instrumental and automated.
