Robert Wright

Is meditation supposed to make you happier?

Robert Wright, a senior editor at The Atlantic and the author, most recently, of The Evolution of God, writes from…

December 31, 2012

Should Buddhist meditation make you happy?

Robert Wright, The Atlantic: In Early December, right before I headed off for a one-week silent meditation retreat, I encouraged…

December 30, 2012

Retreating into meditation

Robert Wright, the Atlantic: At the moment this post is published--Monday evening--I'm probably miserable. But I can't say for sure.…

December 11, 2012

That misery called meditation

Robert Wright, the New York Times online columnist and author of The Evolution of God, is pretty much what you'd…

June 27, 2010