Robert Wright Audio & Video

From one of America's greatest minds, a journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness.

Conversations with a series of people who have nothing in common except that program host Robert Wright is curious about what they’re thinking.

Are men born to cheat? Does monogamy serve women's interests? Wright unveils the genetic strategies behind everything from our sexual preferences to our office politics....

Robert Wright introduces his popular book Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment in this talk from 2017 delivered at Politics and Prose Bookstore.

Author Robert Wright argues that the ongoing evolution of human interactions have become increasingly complex which has lead to greater rewards for cooperation amongst all peoples. He calls these interactions non-zero-sum games because in general both parties are profiting from cooperation.

In this sweeping narrative, which takes us from the Stone Age to the Information Age, Robert Wright unveils an astonishing discovery: there is a hidden pattern that the great monotheistic faiths have followed as they have evolved.

Robert Wright, Mickey Kaus and friends talk about the issues of the day. Go to www.bloggingheads.tv for video and for more information.

In this presentation from the Google Talks, author Robert Wright talks about the cultural evolution of God. After taking a survey of how Islam and Christianity developed, Wright found that religion was either belligerent or tolerant based on the historical context.

The author discussed his book, The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology.

Mr. Wright and Mr. Kaplan debated the condition of the world in 2010. Mr. Wright discussed some of the themes of his book, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny…