Robert Wright, co-founder of bloggingheads.tv and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, is the author of Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny and The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life, both published by Vintage Books. The Moral Animal was named by the New York Times Book Review as one of the 12 best books of 1994 and has been published in 12 languages. Nonzero was named a New York Times Book Review Notable Book for 2000 and has been published in nine languages. Wright's first book, Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information, was published in 1988 and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Wright is a contributing editor at The New Republic, Time, and Slate. He has also written for the Atlantic Monthly, the New Yorker, and the New York Times Magazine. He previously worked at The Sciences magazine, where his column "The Information Age" won the National Magazine Award for Essay and Criticism.

Blog Entries by Robert Wright

The Trouble with the New Atheists: Part II

6 Comments | Posted July 20, 2009 | 12:07 PM (EST)


Last week in this space I posted an attack on the "new atheists" that got me--predictably, I guess--attacked by new atheists.

My complaint wasn't the usual complaint about them (that they're counterproductively arrogant or zealous), but rather that they exert a right-wing influence on foreign policy. By depicting...

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Why the "New Atheists" are Right-Wing on Foreign Policy

1477 Comments | Posted July 13, 2009 | 08:58 AM (EST)


It must strike progressive atheists as a stroke of bad luck that Christopher Hitchens, leading atheist spokesperson, happens to have hawkish views on foreign policy. After all, with atheists an overwhelmingly left-wing group, what were the chances that the loudest infidel in the western world would happen to be on...

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The Bible's Vindication of Obama's Middle East Strategy

1028 Comments | Posted June 8, 2009 | 12:17 PM (EST)


Some West Bank settlers think Barack Obama is defying God's will. Obama wants to stop the growth of the settlements, whereas (according to these settlers) God wants the people of Israel to populate all of the promised land; it says so in the Bible.

I have a different take...

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The Real Roots of Suicide Bombing

Posted June 22, 2007 | 10:14 AM (EST)


What ever happened to former New York Times reporter and alleged neocon sympathizer Judith Miller? She's just resurfaced and is aiding and abetting the left!

At least, that's my reading of her recent research on suicide bombing, as laid out in an interview she just did for my video web...

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Israel's Strategic Blunder

Posted July 16, 2006 | 01:54 PM (EST)


Steve Clemons makes several good points in this HuffPo post about the ongoing unravelling of the Middle East, but I want to focus on something he says near the end: According to one of his sources, Israeli leaders are "freaked out" by the quality of recent attacks against Israel,...

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