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As Robert Wright wrote in the New York Times last year, the LGBTQ community has learned that engaged relationships change people's hearts and minds, and this is a model that can be applied to the issue of anti-Muslim bias as well. ...

One is Robert Wright, whose book, “The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology And Everyday Life,” was so brilliant I literally read it aloud to my wife on an island vacation in 1996. The second is that selfsame wife, Jody, whose maddeningly astute ...

American author Robert Wright, in his 2009 book The Evolution of God, argues that it is human nature for people to want to follow those claiming a special relationship with a higher spiritual power. "Whenever people sense the presence of a puzzling or ...

That's what Robert Wright does in his 2009 book, The Evolution of God. He sees, in the movement of history, a spirit of liberation. He doesn't care if you call it God, or human betterment. What's important is the upward drive, the whoosh of freedom. ...

"The UN created a Jewish state six decades ago, and it can create a Palestinian state now," said Robert Wright in the New York Times. ...

Robert Wright, a columnist for New York Times, pointed out that the current path the US president is taking, “involves Obama taking political heat every ...

The WikiLeaks frontman "will presumably get Time magazine's 'Person of the Year' nod," says Robert Wright in The New York Times, and Time will "no doubt ...

On September 28th, New York Times blogger Robert Wright argued that Palestinians should give up on the current peace process and just campaign for the right ...

Richard Dawkins' atheism has provoked a series of intelligent books about religion, from Marilynne Robinson's Absence of Mind and K aren Armstrong's The Case for God to this anthropological and philosophical enquiry by Robert Wright, an agnostic. ...

As if we needed more evidence of America’s political polarization, last week Juan Williams gave the nation a Rorschach test. Williams said he gets scared when people in “Muslim garb” board a plane he’s on, and he promptly got (a) fired by NPR and (b) rewarded by Fox News with a big contract.

Suppose Williams had said something hurtful to gay people instead of to Muslims. Suppose he had said gay men give him the creeps because he fears they’ll make sexual advances. NPR might well have fired him, but would Fox News have chosen that moment to give him a $2-million pat on the back?

The threat to privacy posed by digital technology is about to take a turn for the worse. At least, that’s what we’re hearing about HTML 5, the latest version of the computer language that is used to create Web pages. In principle, HTML 5 will allow sites you visit to know your physical location and will make it easier for them to keep track of your browsing and shopping history.