Robert Wright (born January 15, 1957) is an American author and journalist known for his wide-ranging interests in philosophy, society, science (especially evolutionary psychology), history, politics, international relations, and religion.

[2] His teachers at Princeton included author John McPhee, whose style influenced Wright's first book, Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information.

At Princeton, Wright was a Laurence S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow[14] and co-taught a graduate seminar with Peter Singer on the biological basis of moral intuition.

[17] In 2002, Wright ventured into video-on-Internet with his MeaningofLife.tv website, developed by Greg Dingle,[18] where he interviewed a range of thinkers on their ideas about science, philosophy, meditation, spirituality, and other topics.

While many diavlogs feature Wright, other hosts at Bloggingheads.tv include Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, Bill Scher, Matt Lewis, Kat Rosenfield, Phoebe Maltz-Bovy, and Aryeh Cohen-Wade.

And early on there were shamans who had mystical experiences that even today a Buddhist monk would say were valid forms of apprehension of the divine or something.

But by and large I think people were making up stories that would help them control the world.On The Colbert Report, Wright said he was "not an atheist" but did not subscribe to any of the three Abrahamic religions.

[24] Wright describes what he calls the "changing moods of God," arguing that religion is adaptable and based on the political, economic, and social circumstances of the culture, rather than strictly scriptural interpretation.

[29] He further argues that the modern psychological idea of the modularity of mind resonates with the Buddhist teaching of no-self (anatman).