Robert Wright is a pretentious bore. Like Tom Friedman of the NY Times, he is much smarter than the average journalistic pundit, but at the same time way way overrated. Only a fews hours after the attacks on the morning of Sept. 11, he's up on Slate.com saying "s=See, see, see everybody, this PROVES we don't need National Missile Defense."I don't agree with everything that he writes, and I particularly don't agree with that, but I do like his books, "The Moral Animal," and "Non-Zero: The Logic of Human Destiny." I don't always agree with him, but I rarely find him boring.
Not that I'm sure it would work, but with his logic...may he be the first one a rocket hits. Then we can ask him if he's changed his mind. I bet he'll have changed it a lot.