You don't like your smartphone, but you love it. We're lonely, but we don't do much about it. We hate being alone, but we are scared of rejection. We're increasingly aware of how our digital lives are stripping us of our actual lives, but we keep a hold of our profiles. Why?

And what do we do about it? Can we save us from ourselves? Is there a case for the digital life? Join Young Voices and National Review Institute for a discussion on all this (and a bit more). Mingling will happen irl, before and after.

SPEAKERS:

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Madeleine Kearns: Madeleine is from Glasgow, Scotland. She is a staff writer at National Review, a senior fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum, and a former Robert Novak Journalism Fellow with The Fund for American Studies (2022 – 2023). Madeleine writes for The Spectator and has written for The Wall Street Journal, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail, Standpoint Magazine, Law & Liberty, UnHerd, The Scotsman, The Catholic Herald, Verily, and Heterodox Academy. She is a regular on National Review’s “The Editors” podcast and has appeared on the BBC, STV, ITV, Fox News, PragerU, the Ben Shapiro Show, and the Megyn Kelly Show. Madeleine graduated from the University of St Andrews, where she was a vocal scholar, with a first-class bachelor’s degree in English, minoring in Music. She received her postgraduate diploma in Education from the University of Glasgow, and Master’s in Journalism, “Cultural Reporting & Criticism,” from New York University. Madeleine writes and performs music. She lives with her husband in New York City.

Noah Rothman: Noah is a senior writer for National Review. He is the author of Unjust: Social Justice and the Unmaking of America (Regnery, 2019) and The Rise of the New Puritans: Fighting Back Against Progressives’ War on Fun (HarperCollins, 2022). His work has been published in USA Today, the Washington Examiner, the New York Post, the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, and elsewhere. Mr. Rothman graduated from Drew University with a degree in Russian Studies and political science, and he earned a graduate degree in diplomacy and international relations from Seton Hall University with a focus on security policy in the former Soviet space.