Robert Wright
Gender	male
Born	1957
Birth place	Lawton, Oklahoma
Education	Princeton University
Circumstances
Other names	Bob Wright
Marital status	married
Spouse	Lisa Wright
Children	3 daughters
Ethnicity	Caucasian - U.S.
Religious belief(s)	Agnostic
Notable credit(s)	author of The Moral Animal and Nonzero; editor for Time, Slate, The New Republic, The Wilson Quarterly; has written for The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine; runs websites BloggingHeads.tv and MeaningOfLife.tv

Robert Wright is an American journalist and prize-winning author of best-selling books about science, evolutionary psychology, history, religion, and game theory, including Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, The Moral Animal, and Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information. He is a visiting scholar at The University of Pennsylvania and Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation. Robert Wright is the name of: Bob Wright (baseball) (1891), early 20th century baseball pitcher Robert Wright (politician) (1752–1826), early 19th century governor and congressman from Maryland Robert Wright, Baron Wright (1869–1964), British law lord Robert Wright (Medal of Honor), American Civil War soldier and Medal of Honor... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... This article is about the Male sex. ... Year 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar). ... Lawton is a city in Comanche County, Oklahoma, United States. ... Princeton University is a private coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... The term agnosticism and the related agnostic were coined by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1869. ... The Moral Animal is a 1994 book by Robert Wright. ... Look up time in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see Slate (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see New Republic. ... The Atlantic redirects here; for the ocean, see Atlantic Ocean. ... For other uses, see New Yorker. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... BloggingHeads. ... For other persons of the same name, see Robert Wright. ... Evolutionary psychology (abbreviated EP) is a theoretical approach to psychology that attempts to explain mental and psychological traits—such as memory, perception, or language—as adaptations, i. ... Game theory is a branch of applied mathematics that is often used in the context of economics. ... The Moral Animal is a 1994 book by Robert Wright. ... This article is about the private Ivy League university in Philadelphia. ... The New America Foundation is a non-profit public policy institute and think tank located in Washington, D.C. that promotes innovative political solutions transcending conventional party lines -- what they call radical centrist politics. ...

Wright has served as a Senior Editor at The Sciences and later at The New Republic, and as an editor at The Wilson Quarterly. He has been a contributing editor at The New Republic (where he also co-authored the "TRB" column), Time and Slate, and has written for The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine. He contributes frequently to The New York Times, including a stint as guest columnist for the month of April, 2007. For other uses, see New Republic. ... For other uses, see New Republic. ... Look up time in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see Slate (disambiguation). ... The Atlantic redirects here; for the ocean, see Atlantic Ocean. ... For other uses, see New Yorker. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed internationally. ...

On November 1, 2005, Wright and blogger Mickey Kaus launched Bloggingheads.tv, a current-events diavlog. Bloggingheads diavlogs are conducted via webcam, and can be viewed online or downloaded as MP3 sound files. New diavlogs are posted approximately 5-10 times a week and are archived. While many diavlogs feature Wright and Kaus, other regular participants at Bloggingheads.tv include Conn Carroll, Jonathan Chait, David Corn, Ross Douthat, Daniel Drezner, Garance Franke-Ruta, Jonah Goldberg, Ezra Klein, Megan McArdle, James Pinkerton, Mark Schmitt and Matthew Yglesias. They collectively represent diverse political viewpoints, and Wright and Kaus differ politically as well. Mickey Kaus is a journalist and author best known form writing Kausfiles, a mostly political blog featured on Slate. ... BloggingHeads. ... A diavlog (sometimes written dia-vlog) is a type of video blog (or vlog) in which more than one person participates, in other words a video weblog dialog. ... For other uses, see MP3 (disambiguation). ... Jonathan Chait is a senior editor at The New Republic and a former assistant editor of The American Prospect. ... David Corn is a political correspondent for The Nation and author of the book as well as the political novel Deep Background and the biography Blond Ghost: Ted Shackley and the CIAs Crusades. ... Garance Franke-Ruta is a senior editor at the American Prospect. ... Jonah Jacob Goldberg (born March 21, 1969), is an American political commentator and writer. ... Ezra Klein (1984 - present) is a writing fellow for the American Prospect and a prominent American liberal political blogger. ... James Pinkerton is a columnist, author, and political analyst. ... Mark Schmitt, expert mathamitician Mark Schmitt is a notable mathematician who teaches at Detroit Country Day School. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ...

Wright has also used bloggingheads.tv to conduct interviews with, among others, the political scientist Francis Fukuyama about his book America at the Crossroads; the Israeli journalist Gershom Gorenberg on his book The Accidental Empire (about the history of the settlements); the weapons expert Jeffrey Lewis; the Washington Post columnist Joel Achenbach on an article of his about global-warming skeptics; and Andrew Sullivan on his book The Conservative Soul. All are archived at the bloggingheads site. Francis Fukuyama Yoshihiro Francis Fukuyama (born October 27, 1952, Chicago, Illinois) is an American philosopher, political economist and author. ... Gershom Gorenberg is an American-born Israeli political writer[1] specializing in the political history of Israel and Israeli-American relations. ... ... Andrew Michael Sullivan (born August 10, 1963) is a libertarian conservative author and political commentator, distinguished by his often personal style of political analysis, and last, and often contended, in technology terms, yet to be determined, the number one solo pioneer in the field of pseudo-conversational political blog journalism. ...

Wright has also ventured into video-on-Internet with his MeaningofLife.tv website, in which he interviews a number of scholars, scientists, and thinkers about their ideas and opinions regarding religion and spirituality.

His next book, titled The Evolution of God, is expected to be published by Little, Brown in the spring of 2008.^[1] Little, Brown and Company is a publishing house established by Charles Coffin Little and his partner, James Brown. ...

Wright is a self-described "Army brat," born to a Southern Baptist family in Lawton, Oklahoma in 1957 and raised in (among other places) San Francisco. Wright attended Texas Christian University for a year before transferring to Princeton University, later graduating with an interdisciplinary degree in public and international affairs. His professors at college included author John McPhee, whose style clearly influenced Wright's first book. Wright and his wife Lisa now live in Princeton with their three daughters. ^[2] The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is a United States cooperative ministry agency serving missionary Baptist churches around the world. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Princeton University is a private coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. ... John McPhee John Angus McPhee (born March 8, 1931) is a writer widely considered one of the pioneers of creative nonfiction. ...

Awards

The New York Times Book Review chose Wright's The Moral Animal as one of the 12 best books of 1994; it was a national bestseller and has been published in 12 languages. Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny was a The New York Times Book Review Notable Book in the year 2000 and has been published in nine languages. Fortune Magazine included Nonzero on a list of "the 75 smartest [business-related] books of all time." Wright's first book, Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information, was published in 1988 and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Wright's column "The Information Age," written for The Sciences magazine, won the National Magazine Award for Essay and Criticism. The Moral Animal is a 1994 book by Robert Wright. ... The Sciences was published from 1993 to 2000 by the New York Academy of Sciences. ... The National Magazine Award is a prestigious American award that honors excellence in the magazine industry. ...

Bibliography

• Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information. HarperCollins, 1989. ISBN 0-06-097257-2
• The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology. Vintage, 1995. ISBN 0-679-76399-6
• Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny. Vintage, 2001. ISBN 0-679-75894-1

References

1. ^ http://www.hachettebookgroupusa.com/library/lb_domestic_0506.pdf
2. ^ PBS Interview: Does History Have a Purpose? April 1, 2000. http://www.pbs.org/thinktank/transcript814.html

External links

• Nonzero.org - A website for Wright's book Nonzero
• MeaningOfLife.tv - Wright's website recording his interviews of noted scientists including Daniel Dennett, John Maynard Smith, Steven Pinker, John Polkinghorne, and Francis Fukuyama
• Slate Magazine - Wright was a Slate contributor and many of his articles are available here via a search for his name
• 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
• BloggingHeads.tv - Diavlog (video blog) of Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus
• TEDTalks - Wright's speech for the TED Conference 2006