"The Emptiness of the Modern Sexual Ethic" with Christine Emba | Notre Dame CCCG

Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture Series · Jul 16, 2026 · 1h 10m

Despite new freedoms (and new technologies), sexual culture seems to have gotten worse, not better. Where is the modern sexual ethic failing, and what might replace it? Christine Emba is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). She is concurrently a contributing writer at The New York Times and a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Initiative for Catholic Social Thought and Public Life. Before joining AEI, Ms. Emba 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…