Is Buddhism True?: A Conversation with Robert Wright

In this episode, Brian Beckcom speaks with Robert Wright. Robert
is the New York Times bestselling author of The Evolution of God
(a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), Nonzero, The Moral Animal
(named one of the ten best books of the year by The New York
Times Book Review), Three Scientists and their Gods (a finalist
for the National Book Critics Circle Award), and Why Buddhism Is
True. 


Robert has written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York
Times, Time, Slate, and The New Republic. He has taught in the
psychology department at the University of Pennsylvania and the
religion department at Princeton University, where he also
created the popular online course “Buddhism and Modern
Psychology.”