Robert Wright
Author of Nonzero, The Moral Animal, Why Buddhism Is True. EIC @NonzeroNews, @Bloggingheads, @MeaningLifeTV. Visiting Prof of Science & Religion @UnionSeminary
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'Are you Hindu or Muslim?’: TOI photojournalist recounts Maujpur horror - Times of India
This story is all about how things have been spiralling out of control in northeast Delhi and how misguided youths have decided to take the law in their hands by unleashing violence based on religious identity.
Coverup at OPCW? | Robert Wright & Aaron Maté [The Wright Show]
Did the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons suppress evidence that an infamous attack in Syria didn’t actually happen? 00:51 Evidence from O...
Trump's new acting Director of National Intelligence conducted undisclosed work for Hungary's far-right government
We all know Richard Grenell as a Twitter troll and Trump loyalist, but his work for foreign entities and governments has largely gone unreported.
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Did the Trump administration pressure the world's chemical weapons watchdog (@OPCW) into suppressing evidence about what happened at Douma, Syria? I discuss w/ @aaronjmate on my show. You can watch on @bloggingheads- bloggingheads.tv/videos/58279 -or listen on The Wright Show podcast.
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They're paid to tweet for Mike Bloomberg. They don't necessarily support him
Mike Bloomberg has hired hundreds of paid "digital organizers" to boost his presidential bid on social media. A look inside the operation reveals potential downsides to this approach.
Using asymmetrical warfare against Trump
This week, in my periodic role as obnoxious Twitter scold, I intemperately reprimanded famous Never-Trumper and #Resistance personage Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom), who had tweeted...
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In the latest @NonzeroNews I explain why I think so many #Resistance leaders are leading us astray.
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Bertrand Russell’s not entirely crazy dream of ending war via logic
The truth, whatever it may be, is the same in England, France, and Germany, in Russia and in Austria. It will not adapt itself to national needs: it is in its essence neutral. It stands...
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In the latest @NonzeroNews I argue that the evolution of AI gives new plausibility to Bertrand Russell's hope of ending war via detached analysis.
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You don't *have* to read my piece in the latest @NonzeroNews about how AI might help us reduce international conflict. But you should at least check out the accompanying Matrixized Bertrand Russell gif created by @NikitaSPetrov
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The Wright Show: Coverup at OPCW? (Robert Wright & Aaron Maté) on Apple Podcasts
Show The Wright Show, Ep Coverup at OPCW? (Robert Wright & Aaron Maté) - Feb 21, 2020
Doing kottke.org as a full-time job
I recently quit my web design gig and -- as of today -- will be working on kottke.org as my full-time job. And I need your help.
US lost track of $715m in weapons sent to anti-Daesh allies in Syria
The US government has failed to account for nearly $715.8 million in weapons and equipment funnelled to its Syrian allies involved in the multinational counter-offensive against Daesh, according to a ...
Hard Numbers: Narendra Modi's BJP takes an electoral hit
30: Boko Haram militants killed at least 30 people in an attack along a major highway in Borno state in north-eastern Nigeria. About 35,000 people have been killed and more than two million displaced since Islamist violence began plaguing Nigeria in...
For Presidents’ Day, Here’s One Vicious, Ghastly and/or Fascinating Fact About Every U.S. President
There’s a conscious effort to drain all human interest out of America's incredible, gross, terrifying past. Let's fight back by remembering it.
Through a glass very, very darkly
A number of spiritual and philosophical traditions hold that reality is very different from what it seems to be. Buddhism springs to mind, as does George Berkeley’s idealism. But I don’t...
Two largest teachers unions call for schools to revise or end active shooter drills
"Traumatizing students as we work to keep students safe from gun violence is not the answer."
Mike Bloomberg and the oligarchy question
This was the week that Mike Bloomberg finally got some respect. After which he got massive disrespect.First the respect: Bloomberg had always been dismissed as a long-shot for the...
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In this week's @NonzeroNews I examine Bloomberg's vast influence buying machine and look at the implications--the long-term implications for American democracy--of winding up with a choice in November between Bloomberg and Trump.
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In the latest Nonzero Newsletter I look at the two different kinds of oligarchy represented by Trump and Bloomberg. nonzero.org/post/bloomberg… pic.twitter.com/e73CQW3zzP
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@NonzeroNews Today's NYT piece on Bloomberg's political use of his wealth was great, but I think it missed some particularly troubling issues. See, for example, the point I make, below, in my piece on Bloomberg in the latest issue of the Nonzero Newsletter: nonzero.org/post/bloomberg… pic.twitter.com/pNQYaci4vH
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How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory | Robert Wright & Andrew Bacevich [The Wright Show]
Andrew’s new book, The Age of Illusions 0:19 Andrew’s ideological lodestars: Catholic conservatism, Reinhold Niebuhr, and FDR 5:50 Defining foreign policy “r...
2020 candidate Michael Bloomberg says he has no regrets for backing Iraq War
Bloomberg criticizes Trump's Iran threats on visit to Los Angeles
He Was Fearless on a Football Field. It Was the Future That Scared Him.
In September 2018, just before senior day for college football, Evan Hansen opened his laptop and looked up C.T.E.
Koch showers millions on think tanks to push a restrained foreign policy
The funds are being dispensed amid growing public exhaustion in the United States with American military action overseas.
Sheldon Adelson calls on US to nuke Iranian desert
Washington should then threaten to drop nuclear bomb on Tehran if it fails to comply with Western demands, powerful casino magnate says
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Adelson, btw, once seriously advocated a nuclear strike on Iran. He said the nuke should land "in the middle of the desert"--just a show of force so that the Iranians know "we mean business."
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