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Robert Wright - Robert Wright is a senior editor at The Atlantic and the author, most recently, of The Evolution of God, a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. More

Robert Wright is a senior editor at The Atlantic and the author, most recently, of The Evolution of God, a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Wright is also a fellow at the New America Foundation and editor in chief of Bloggingheads.tv. His other books include Nonzero, which was named a New York Times Book Review Notable Book in 2000 and included on Fortune magazine's list of the top 75 business books of all-time. Wright's best-selling book The Moral Animal was selected as one of the ten best books of 1994 by The New York Times Book Review.Wright has contributed to The Atlantic for more than 20 years. He has also contributed to a number of the country's other leading magazines and newspapers, including: The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, Time, and Slate, and the op-ed pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Financial Times. He is the recipient of a National Magazine Award for Essay and Criticism and his books have been translated into more than a dozen languages.
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Video Debate: Rick Santorum's Poverty Cure

By Robert Wright

Jan 26 2012, 3:05 PM ET Comment

If you finish high school and don't have a child until you are married and are at least 20 years old, your chances of being poor are only eight percent. Rick Santorum has turned findings like this into a testament to the value of marriage and a prescription for reducing the black poverty rate. But are these kinds of statistical correlations really very useful? John McWhorter of Columbia University and Glenn Loury of Brown University debate the question:



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