Robert Wright (journalist)
For other people named Robert Wright, see the disambiguation page.Robert Wright is a journalist and prize-winning author of best-selling books about science,
evolutionary psychology, history and
sociobiology, including
Nonzero and
The Moral Animal. He is a visiting scholar at
The University of Pennsylvania.
Wright has been 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. His column "The Information Age," written for
The Sciences magazine, won the
National Magazine Award for Essay and Criticism. He contributes frequently to
The New York Times.
On
November 1,
2005, Wright and blogger
Mickey Kaus launched
Bloggingheads.tv, a current events "dia-vlog." Of Wright's unemotive style
one blogger wrote "If Wright were supposed to be a robot, we'd say it was an unsubtle portrayal." Wright's blandness works better in repartee with Kaus, in which he deploys a lot of dry humor. Wright previously ventured into video-on-Internet with his
MeaningofLife.tv website.
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Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information. HarperCollins, 1989. ISBN 0060972572
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The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology. Vintage, 1995. ISBN 0679763996
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Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny. Vintage, 2001. ISBN 0679758941
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Nonzero.org A website for Wright's book
Nonzero*
MeaningOfLife.tv A website created by Wright with his interviews of noted theorists and biologists including
Daniel Dennett,
John Maynard Smith,
Steven Pinker, and
Francis Fukuyama*
Slate Magazine Wright was a Slate contributor and many of his articles are available here via a search for his name
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The Globalization of Morality An interview with Wright from
What Is Enlightenment? Magazine*
Ambling Toward a Win-Win World? A review of
Nonzero from
Radical Middle Newsletter*
Discussion between Robert Wright and philosopher Daniel Dennett
