Robert Wright is an award-winning author, a prolific
journalist, and a scholar with wide-ranging interests. He is a
Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, where he
is writing on foreign policy, particularly in relationship to
the war on terrorism. During the 2004-05 academic year, he was
a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University's Center for Human
Values, and he has been a visiting scholar in the psychology
department of the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught a
course entitled "Human Nature and Social Change.”
Wright's most recent book, Nonzero: The Logic of Human
Destiny, approaches the issue of morality by examining ways
in which it is interwoven into the very pattern of evolutionary
history. It has been published in nine languages and was named
a New York Times Book Review Notable Book for 2000.
His previous book, The Moral Animal: Evolutionary
Psychology and Everyday Life, was published in twelve
languages and named by the New York Times Book Review
as one of the twelve best books of 1994. His first book,
Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an
Age of Information, was nominated for a National Book
Critics Circle Award.
Wright is a contributing editor at The New Republic.
His 1994 cover story, "Be Very Afraid," warned about the
dangers of weapons of mass destruction falling into the hands of
terrorists. He writes the column "The Earthling" for
Slate magazine and has written for Time,
Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, New York
Times Magazine, Foreign Policy, as well as various
op-ed pages in The New York Times, The Washington
Post, Financial Times, and other newspapers. He
previously worked at The Sciences magazine, where his
column "The Information Age" won the National Magazine Award for
Essay and Criticism.
Wright is completing a book on the history of religion that
touches on a number of contemporary issues, including how to
foster interfaith tolerance amid globalization.
selected books
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
Vintage (January 2001)
Buy at Amazonhttp://www.nonzero.org
The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology(Reprint edition, 1995)
Buy at Amazon
Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of InformationHarperCollins (Reprint edition, August 1989)
Buy at Amazon
selected articles
Earthling: Science, Evolution, and Politics explained
Column on Slate.com
http://slate.msn.com/?querytext=the+earthling&id;=3944&searchfromtoc;=Go&action;=fulltext
other related websites
Meaning of Life TV
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