The Wright Show Creators & Guests

Robert Wright is a journalist. He writes about science, history, and religion. His works include The Evolution of God, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, The Moral Animal, Why Buddhism is True, and Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information.

Tamler Sommers is a professor of philosophy at the University of Houston. He is an author of several books. He is co-hosts, along with psychologist David Pizarro, of the podcast Very Bad Wizards.

Judith Shulevitz is an American journalist, editor and culture critic. She has been a columnist for Slate, The New York Times Book Review, and The New Republic. She is a contributing writer for The Atlantic.

Thomas Metzinger is a German philosopher and professor of theoretical philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. As of 2011, he is an Adjunct Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, a co-founder of the German Effective Altruism Foundation, president of the Barbara Wengeler Foundation, and on the advisory board of the Giordano Bruno Foundation. From 2008 to 2009 he served as a Fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study; from 2014 to 2019 he was a Fellow at the Gutenberg Research College; from 2019 to 2022 he was awarded a Senior-Forschungsprofessur by the Ministry of Science, Education and Culture. From 2018 to 2020 Metzinger worked as a member of the European Commission’s High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence.Metzinger is a founding member of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, where he was a member of the board from 1995 to 2008 the president from 2009 to 2011.

Kieran Setiya is a philosopher whose work focuses on ethics, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind. Currently, he is a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Setiya is the author of "Practical Knowledge, Reasons without Rationalism," and "Knowing Right From Wrong," which defend a cognitive theory of intention, a form of virtue ethics, and an account of ethical knowledge that draws on Aristotle and Hume. He has also written about love, regret, and rights. Most recently, he is the author of a self-help book, "Midlife: A Philosophical Guide," and a number of essays in public philosophy.

Daniel Levy is a British–Israeli analyst. He is a former IDF soldier, and Israeli negotiator during the Taba summit and Oslo 2 peace process. He is president of U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP) and was among the founders J Street, a liberal Zionist organization critical of Israel's policies on Palestine.

Editor in chief at Reason

John Cullen Murphy, Jr. is an American writer, journalist, and editor. He was managing editor of The Atlantic magazine.

Jacob Heilbrunn is a journalist and author. Currently, he is the Editor of The National Interest.Heilbrunn began his career as an assistant editor at The National Interest. He went on to become a senior editor at the New Republic and an editorial writer for the Los Angeles Times.Heilbrunn's work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Reuters, Washington Monthly, and The Weekly Standard. His first book, "They Knew They Were Right: the Rise of the Neocons," was published in 2008. His second book, "America Last: The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators," was published in 2024.

Ann Hulbert is an editor and an author. She is currently the literary editor at The Atlantic.Before coming to The Atlantic, Hulbert was the literary editor of Slate magazine.Hulbert's books include "Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice About Children," and "The Interior Castle: The Art and Life of Jean Stafford."Hubert's articles and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, and The Atlantic.Hubert is a graduate of Harvard and spent a year at Cambridge University..

Barbara Slavin is a journalist, and foreign policy expert.

Dr. Damon Linker is an opinion journalist, author, and editor. He writes the subscription newsletter "Eyes on the Right." He is a Senior Fellow with the Open Society Project at the Niskanen Center and a weekly participant on The Bulwark podcast "Beg to Differ." Previously, Linker was a senior correspondent at The Week. Before that, he was a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania, and before that, a consulting editor at Penn Press.Linker's work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Republic. His first book, "The Theocons: Secular America Under Siege," was published in 2006. His second book, "The Religious Test: Why We Must Question the Beliefs of Our Leaders Hardcover," was published in 2010.Linker received his M.A. in History from New York University and his Ph.D. in Political Science from Michigan State University.

Conor Friedersdorf is a journalist and writer, known for his civil libertarian perspectives. Currently, he is a staff writer at The Atlantic.Friedersdorf received his B.A. in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from Pomona College and his M.A. in Journalism from New York University.

Glenn Greenwald is a lawyer, journalist, and author.

Diana Santos Fleischman is an American evolutionary psychologist and senior lecturer at the University of Portsmouth in the UK.

Roko Mijic is a rationalist, writer of the Heretical Update newsletter, and the inventor of “Roko’s Basilisk”.

Senior economist for the Foundation for American Innovation, a think tank focused on bridging the cultures of Silicon Valley and DC. Before that, the Niskanen Center’s Director of Social Policy, best known for my work on child benefits. Before even that, researched technology policy at the Mercatus Center.

Negar Mortazavi is a journalist and political analyst. Currently, she is a columnist for The Independent and host of the Iran Podcast.Mortazavi received her B.A. from the University of Massachusetts and her M.A. from Brandeis University.