While there is nothing new about vice, the internet and smartphones have made it more accessible than ever before, as online gambling becomes ubiquitous and streaming pornography becomes de facto sex education. In our increasingly pluralistic world, we tend not to cast judgement on others, but there are things that we can and should consider regulating that seem to be working against the flourishing of our society at this moment in time.
Join us as we welcome Ms. Emba and Dr. Cohen for a discussion on the impact vice has on today’s demographic, what it will take for the law to rein in these activities, and the difference between prohibition and regulation.
Christine Emba is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where her work focuses on gender and sexuality, feminism, masculinity, youth culture, and social norms. She is concurrently a contributing writer at The New York Timesand a visiting fellow at the Center for Economy and Society at Johns Hopkins University’s SNF Agora Institute.
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 editor at the Economist Intelligence Unit. She 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 2024.
Ms. Emba is a contributing editor at Comment magazine, a board member at the American Institute for Boys and Men, and an editor-at-large at Wisdom of Crowds. She is the author of Rethinking Sex: A Provocation (2022).
Ms. Emba has a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University.
Jonathan D. Cohen leads The American Institute for Boys and Men’s gambling policy efforts within the Boys & Men Online program.
Cohen is a public intellectual and expert on gambling policy. He is the author of Losing Big: America’s Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling (2025) and For a Dollar and a Dream: State Lotteries in Modern America (2022). His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and other publications.
Before joining AIBM, he served as a senior program officer at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, where he led a cross-partisan commission on the American economy and projects focused on American democracy. He previously worked as a financial writer and editor at Tiger Capital Group.
Cohen holds a bachelor’s degree from McGill University and a doctorate in history from the University of Virginia. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with his wife and two sons.
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