Another Reason Not to Bomb Iran
A new report finds that the threat of homegrown terrorism is dropping, a trend that could be reversed by attacking another country. More »
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Robert Wright is the author of, most recently, the New York Times bestseller The Evolution of God and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is a former writer and editor at The Atlantic. More
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.
A new report finds that the threat of homegrown terrorism is dropping, a trend that could be reversed by attacking another country. More »
Thank goodness Samsung may soon offer a seven-millimeter thick phone! Their current 8.5-millimeter phone is way too big. More »
American officials spared no rhetorical expense in reacting to Saturday's collapse of a UN resolution on Syria. More »
Should we start thinking seriously about military intervention in Syria? Shadi Hamid thinks so. More »
If you don't pay much attention to football during the regular season, you may now be trying to figure out who to support on Sunday. More »
A discussion of the matter with John Horgan on Bloggingheads TV. My conclusion: a viable third-party peace candidate is unlikely. More »
A conversation with Joanna Brooks -- a Mormon who writes the Ask Mormon Girl advice column and is the author of The Book of Mormon Girl More »
The President claims Pakistani drone strikes are mainly about al Qaeda. But are they? More »
It's true: liberal media elites are pulling for him. Some want the horse race to continue, but others are just fascinated by his campaign. More »
Before the Iraq War, a number of Iraqi-Americans expressed support for invasion, but that's not the case in the Iranian-American community. More »
Newt Gingrich's recent proposal to colonize the moon is nothing new. Gingrich has been generating visionary extraterrestrial ideas at least since 1984, when he published a book called Window of Opportunity: A Blueprint for the Future. And what a blueprint it was! Here are just two of the space-related ideas Newt trotted out in that book: 1) Nocturnal Illumination. Gingrich wrote: "A mirror system in space could provide… More »
For Barak to say Iran's "strategic goal" is Israel's annihilation is a bit misleading. More »
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… More »
The First Lady, discussing the new book, recently said she's thought of by some people as "some kind of angry black woman." More »
Quick: How many countries was America at war with last year? More »
The ever-tightening Iranian sanctions may be a trap for Obama and for America. More »
I always rooted for Joe Paterno's football teams. The reason was the emblem on their helmets--or, I should say, the lack of an emblem on their helmets. There was no "P" or "S" for Penn State, no picture of the team mascot. So too with the jerseys: no team name, no player's name, just a number. It wasn't so much the aesthetic minimalism I liked (though, to be sure, if Steve Jobs had designed football uniforms, they would have… More »
How did Newt do it? How did a candidate who seemed near death only a week ago rise up to win in South Carolina? He did it the way he always does it: By playing the hate card. And this time he did it in a particularly creative way. Let's revisit the key moment. Gingrich was in a tight spot. To beat Mitt Romney, he needed to pick up a lot of the family values vote--yet, awkwardly, one of his ex-wives had just … More »
