Robert Wright is Editor in Chief of Bloggingheads.tv and the author of The Moral Animal
(Pantheon, 1994), Nonzero (Pantheon, 2000), and The Evolution of God (Little, Brown,
2009). He is a contributing editor for The
New Republic and a contributor to Time and Slate. He has also written for
The Atlantic Monthly,
The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Foreign Policy, and the op-ed pages of
The New York Times,
The Washington Post, and
The Financial Times, among
other publications. His books have been translated into more than a dozen
languages, and his awards include the National Magazine Award for Essay and
Criticism.
As a Senior Research Fellow at the New America Foundation, Mr. Wright writes on a
wide range of issues related to technology, religion, and foreign policy,
particularly the war on terrorism. His 1994 cover story for The New Republic, "Be Very Afraid,"
warned about the dangers of weapons of mass destruction falling into the hands
of terrorists. In 2000, in
Nonzero, he noted how the evolution of information technology
could exacerbate this problem, facilitating the translation of intense hatred
into massive lethality. His most recent book, The Evolution of God, touches on a number
of contemporary issues, including how to foster interfaith tolerance amid
globalization. Mr. Wright is now focusing on how to shape a foreign policy that
reckons with such trends, paying particular attention to issues of global
governance.
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