Robert Wright

Senior Research Fellow
wright@newamerica.net
 
Robert Wright

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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Publications

Article | Feb 2, 2010 | New York Times
Article | Jan 19, 2010 | NYTimes.com
Article | Nov 21, 2009 | New York Times
Article | Aug 22, 2009 | New York Times
Article | Jul 30, 2009 | NYTimes.com
Book Page | Jun 7, 2009 | Brown and Company Little
Article | May 29, 2009 | The New York Times Magazine
Article | Apr 27, 2007 | New York Times
Article | Apr 24, 2007 | New York Times
Article | Apr 22, 2007 | New York Times

Events

Event | Jun 15, 2009

Press

In the News Item | Dec 7, 2009 | Foreign Policy
In the News Item | Sep 14, 2009 | Reuters
In the News Item | Sep 3, 2009 | MSNBC
In the News Item | Aug 18, 2009 | The Colbert Report
In the News Item | Jul 27, 2009 | Connecticut Public Radio
In the News Item | Jun 28, 2009 | New York Times
In the News Item | Nov 8, 2007 | New York Times
 

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Areas of Expertise

Civil Liberties, Europe, Foreign Policy, National Security, Religion, Telecom & Technology, Terrorism, Trade & Globalization