In his newest book Robert Wright charts a path between atheism and belief, busting religion myths as he goes: Jesus did not preach universal love; Jews didn’t start out as monotheists; and the origin of religion had nothing to do with morality.
Robert Wright
Robert Wright, co-founder of bloggingheads.tv and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, is the author of The Evolution of God, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny and The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life. The Moral Animal was named by the New York Times Book Review as one of the 12 best books of 1994 and has been published in 12 languages.
Wright is a contributing editor at The New Republic, Time, and Slate. He has also written for the Atlantic Monthly, the New Yorker, and the New York Times Magazine. He previously worked at The Sciences magazine, where his column “The Information Age” won the National Magazine Award for Essay and Criticism.
