Robert Wright

Quick Facts

Full Name	Robert Wright
Occupation	American Journalist
Date Of Birth	Jan 15, 1957(1957-01-15)
Age	67
Birthplace	Lawton
Country	United States
Birth City	Oklahoma
Horoscope	Capricorn

Robert Wright Biography

Robert Wright is one of the most popular and richest American journalist who was born on January 15, 1957 in Lawton, Oklahoma, United States. Robert Wright was born January 15, 1957. He is an American journalist, author, and historian who writes about science and politics. Five books have been written by Wright: The Three Scientists and their Gods: Searching for Meaning in an Age of Information (1988), The moral animal (1994), Nonzero, The Logic of Human Destiny (1999), The Evolution of God (2009 and 2017). Wright is currently a visiting professor of science and religion at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Wright is co-founder, editor-in chief of Bloggingheads.tv, and founder and editor in-chief at Meaningoflife.tv.

Wright, blogger Mickey Kaus and Greg Dingle created Bloggingheads.tv on November 1, 2005. It is a diavlog about current events. The Bloggingheads diavlogs can be viewed online via webcam or downloaded as WMV, MP4 or MP3 video files. The archived diavlogs will be posted about 5-10 times per week. Many diavlogs are hosted by Wright. However, Bloggingheads.tv also hosts Glenn Loury and John McWhorter, Bill Scher and Kat Rosenfield. Phoebe Maltz–Bovy and Aryeh Cohen–Wade are other hosts.

Wright served as a Senior Editor at The Sciences and The New Republic, and as an editor at The Wilson Quarterly. He has been a contributing editor at The New Republic (where he also co-authored the “TRB” column), Time, and Slate, and has written for The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine. He contributes frequently to The New York Times, including a stint as guest columnist for the month of April, 2007 and as a contributor to The Opinionator, a web-only opinion page in 2010. Wright became a senior editor of The Atlantic on January 1, 2012. As of February, 2015, the magazine’s author page describes him as “a former senior editor at The Atlantic.”

Wright began video-on-Internet in 2002 with MeaningofLife.tv, a website developed by Greg Dingle. In it, he interviews various thinkers about their views on science, philosophy and meditation. Slate magazine sponsors Meaningoflife.tv, which is made possible by funding from the Templeton Foundation. John Horgan, Daniel Kaufman and Nikita Petrov are the other hosts.

Robert Wright Net Worth

Robert Wright is one of the richest American Journalist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Robert Wright 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Wright was born in Lawton in Oklahoma to a Southern Baptist couple and raised in San Francisco. Wright, a self-described “Army brat”, attended Texas Christian University for one year in the late 70s. He then transferred to Princeton University to study sociobiology. This was an early precursor to evolutionary psychology. Wright was influenced by John McPhee’s style while at college, who is the author of Three Scientists and Their Gods, Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information.

Wright began teaching in 2000 at Princeton University and University of Pennsylvania. He taught a graduate seminar entitled “Religion and Human Nature” and an undergrad course called “The Evolution of Religion”. Wright, a Laurence S. Rockefeller Fellow at Princeton, began teaching a graduate seminar on the biological basis for moral intuition with Peter Singer. Wright led a Coursera MOOC for six weeks on Buddhism and Modern Psychology in 2014. Wright is currently a visiting professor of science and religion at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Wright is also a Senior Fellow at New America.

Wright has written extensively on the topic of religion, particularly in The Evolution of God. In 2009, When asked by Bill Moyers if God is a figment of the human imagination, Wright responded:

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Facts & Trivia

Robert Ranked on the list of most popular American journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Robert Wright celebrates birthday on January 15 of every year.

Is Robert Wright a Buddhist?

Wright’s is a Buddhism almost completely cleansed of supernaturalism.

Is Robert Wright religious?

On The Colbert Report, Wright said he was “not an atheist” but did not believe in any of the three Abrahamic religions. He opposes creationism, including intelligent design.

Does Robert Wright believe in God?

Robert Wright believes that “God,” the human concept, can evolve — indeed that it already has. And though Wright personally believes this concept is an illusion, he thinks that the illusion might just be evolving in a way that reveals some underlying truth, that comes ever-closer to describing the divine.

Is Robert Wright a psychologist?

He has taught in the psychology department at Penn and the religion department at Princeton , where he also created the popular online course “Buddhism and Modern Psychology.” He is currently President of the Nonzero Foundation and Visiting Professor of Science and Religion at Union Theological Seminary in New York.

What are the 3 main beliefs of Buddhism?

Buddhists believe that the human life is one of suffering, and that meditation, spiritual and physical labor, and good behavior are the ways to achieve enlightenment, or nirvana.