William Saletan

William Saletan is the national correspondent for the online magazine Slate, where he writes the “Human Nature” column covering science, technology, and politics. He has also written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the New Republic, and Mother Jones. He received the 2007 Online Journalism Award for commentary and the 2010 AAAS Kavli Journalism Award for online writing. He is the author of Bearing Right: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War.

Related Sessions
Saturday 29 October 2011, 3.30pm Courtyard Gallery
Sunday 30 October 2011, 10.45am Students' Union

Publications

Bearing Right: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War (University of California Press, 2004)

The great population debate: too many carbon footprints?

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