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The problem isn't that the choice of the European Union was abstract. It's that it wasn't abstract enough. 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.
The problem isn't that the choice of the European Union was abstract. It's that it wasn't abstract enough. More »
Muhammad, in using the term "Allah" in the Koran, was referring to the God of Christians and Jews as well as Muslims. More »
Wars are often fought between countries whose leaders didn't really want them. Syria and Turkey's present hostilities could morph into a case in point. More »
As Romney rolls out a kinder, gentler image, it's worth considering the press role in strengthening the impact of his debate win. More »
Meet Mohammed El Kurd, a 14-year-old Palestinian from East Jerusalem. More »
Last week I predicted that journalists determined to report fresh wind in the candidate's sails would find reasons to do so. More »
The case against Obama relies on a litmus test involving dealbreakers. But is that case built on solid ground? Perhaps not. More »
Finding the silver lining in the cloud of the Americans' stunning loss in Medinah More »
Only yesterday I caught wind of the fact that, if you're using certain Android phones, and you click on a link sent to you by someone evil, you could wipe every bit of data off your phone just like that. (The Samsung fix for the problem is here.) That's kind of scary, but in terms of creepiness, it doesn't rank with the malware I caught wind of today. It's called PlaceRaider, and I'll let Fast Company describe it: The trojan runs in the… More »
Reading between the lines of Netanyahu's speech at the U.N. More »
Reflections on the powerful meaning of "Moon River" More »
There's no way the media can tolerate much more of the current narrative. So how might they spin it? Here are four predictions. More »
As two astute commenters pointed out, in raising a question about the Jewish and Christian God, I was raising a question about the Islamic God. More »
I discussed this a few years ago in my book The Evolution of God. More »
The removal of the MEK from the U.S. government's list of terrorist groups will embolden hardliners in Iran and increase the probability of war. More »
A Council on Foreign Relations scholar takes on an official who has been described as Obama's "priest" when it comes to drone strikes. More »
In a leaked video of a speech delivered to a group of fundraisers, the Republican presidential nominee's Iranophobia reached new depths. More »
What are the sources of simmering hostility toward America that helped fuel these demonstrations? More »
The protests in the Muslim world can have a powerful clarifying effect. More »
The eminent journalist tears into the Israeli prime minister and his recent behavior. More »
