Kony 2012: Should the LRA Be Forgiven?
Today I became aware of a different kind of campaign--a campaign in Uganda to forgive officers and footsoldiers in Kony's Lord's Resistance Army for the atrocities they were party to. 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.
Today I became aware of a different kind of campaign--a campaign in Uganda to forgive officers and footsoldiers in Kony's Lord's Resistance Army for the atrocities they were party to. More »
If all goes according to plan, when the sun rises on Saturday the landscape will have been plastered with "Kony 2012" signs by young activists determined to bring a horrible African warlord to justice. More »
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In 1998 the science fiction writer David Brin published a nonfiction book called The Transparent Society. Among the things he envisioned was people walking around with head-mounted video cameras that would make it riskier for criminals to accost them. I remember thinking, "But how many people are so worried about crime that they're going to strap a camera to their head?" With Google glasses now officially unveiled, the answer is in… More »
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This is a serious question: Should you root against Tiger Woods at this week's Masters golf tournament because of his past misbehavior? A quick refresher: Two and a half years ago, Woods's wife, wielding a golf club, chased an Ambien-addled Woods out of their house and into his Cadillac SUV, which, with her in hot pursuit, he drove into a fire hydrant and a neighbor's tree. Then came a parade of purported mistresses, a remarkably brief … More »
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If the Supreme Court rules against President Obama on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, there's a sense in which he'll deserve it. More »
A conversation with the author on why atheists should adopt secular versions of religious rituals More »
