Pop-paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould seems to bring out the worst in science writer Robert Wright. For the last decade Wright has been writing inexplicably hostile reviews of Gould’s work – even his supporters detect an element of obsessive stalking. Until last December, when the New Yorker published the latest of Wright’s diatribes against the incredibly successful public intellectual, Gould has remained silent. Is Gould’s refusal to respond to Wright’s provocations the sign of a savvy alpha male or a passive-aggressive bully? – New York Magazine