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2. The Bridge to Modern Theory: George Gilder

• Gilder applies Mises and Hayek's theories on knowledge and information directly to the information age.

• In works like Wealth and Poverty and Knowledge and Power, he frames the economy not as a machine of numbers and statistics, but as an ecology of entrepreneurial discovery and creativity. [1, 2]

3. Shared Core Beliefs

Despite different focus areas, all four thinkers share overlapping fundamental tenets:

• Anti-Statism: A deep skepticism of government planners, central banks, and welfare systems.

• Knowledge as the Driver: A shared understanding that no central authority can ever know enough to manage a complex economy.

• Sound Money: Advocacy for stable, market-based money—such as a classical gold standard or competing private currencies, rather than state-issued fiat money that creates inflation. [1, 2, 3, 4,, 6]

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During Joe Biden's presidency, many right-wing media pundits accused Silicon Valley and the tech industry of having a bias against Donald Trump, Republicans and the MAGA movement.

But Elon Musk, owner of X (formerly Twitter), was a major donor to Trump's 2024 campaign. And after Trump won the election, some tech CEOs who had been critical of him in the past — including Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon's Jeff Bezos — reached out to him. Zuckerberg and Bezos both attended Trump's inauguration on January 20.

In an article published by The Guardian on January 29, reporter Becca Lewis emphasizes that Silicon Valley's reputation for liberalism is "often undeserved."

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"An influential Silicon Valley publication runs a cover story lamenting the 'pussification' of tech," Lewis writes. "A major tech CEO lambasts a Black civil rights leader's calls for diversifying the tech workforce. Technologists rage against the 'PC police.' No, this isn't Silicon Valley in the age of MAGA. It's the tech industry of the 1990s, when observers first raised concerns about the right-wing bend of Silicon Valley and the potential for 'technofascism.'"

Lewis continues, "Despite the industry's often undeserved reputation for liberalism, its reactionary foundations were baked in almost from the beginning. As Silicon Valley enters a second Trump Administration, the gendered roots of its original reactionary movement offer insight into today's rightward turn."

The term "technofascism," Lewis notes, was used by journalist Michael Malone back in the 1990s.

At the time, many techies were arguing that technology and the internet would have a liberating effect. But Malone wrote, "Forget digital utopia. We could be headed for technofascism." And another writer, Paulina Borsook, believed that the tech industry had a patriarchal outlook that was "a little reminiscent of the early celebrants of Eurofascism from the 1930s."

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"Their voices were largely drowned out by the techno-enthusiasts of the time," Lewis explains, "but Malone and Borsook were pointing to a vision of Silicon Valley built around a reverence for unlimited male power — and a major pushback when that power was challenged. At the root of this reactionary thinking was a writer and public intellectual named George Gilder."

Lewis adds, "Gilder was one of Silicon Valley's most vocal evangelists, as well as a popular 'futurist' who forecasted coming technological trends…. Gilder was also a longtime social conservative who brought his politics to Silicon Valley."

Now, according to Lewis, the "Silicon Valley titans of 2025 are following the same blueprint" that Malone and Borsook warned about during the 1990s.

"Last week," Lewis observes, "Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta was ending its DEI programs and changing its platform policies to allow more discriminatory and harassing posts…. Elon Musk has reshaped Twitter into X, a platform in large part operating as a response to claims of a 'woke mind virus' — the newest iteration of 'political correctness.'"

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In August 2015 the group held its 33rd annual meeting. While attacks on mainstream climate science are "a staple", the meeting provides a forum to a "broad" range of material. Presentations at the 2015 meeting included a theory about links between John F. Kennedy’s assassination and the deaths of his brother and son; a prediction that the aim of Obamacare was to cause the collapse the U.S. health-care system and a recommendation "that the audience start stockpiling medications and finding doctors who would work for cash"; a sympathetic discussion of the theory that low doses of radiation are "beneficial to human health"; and an argument that the HIV virus does not cause AIDS, but instead was invented by government scientists who wanted to cover up other health risks of “the lifestyle of homosexual men.”^[3] The meeting was covered by conservative website Breitbart, attended by George Gilder, and the conservative Heartland Institute sent its science director to present his plan to abolish the Environmental Protection Agency.^[3]

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California's Destructive Green Jobs Lobby

Silicon Valley, once synonymous with productivity-enhancing innovation, is now looking to make money on feel-good government handouts.

By GEORGE GILDER

Updated Nov. 16, 2010 12:01 a.m. ET

California officials acknowledged last Thursday that the state faces $20 billion deficits every year from now to 2016. At the same time, California's state Treasurer entered bond markets to sell some $14 billion in "revenue anticipation notes" over the next two weeks. Worst of all, economic sanity lost out in what may have been the most important election on Nov. 2—and, no, I'm not talking about the gubernatorial or senate races.

This was the California referendum to repeal Assembly Bill 32, the so-called Global Warming Solutions Act, which ratchets the state's economy back to 1990 levels of greenhouse gases by 2020. That's a 30% drop followed by a mandated 80% overall drop by 2050. Together with a $500 billion public-pension overhang, the new energy cap dooms the state to bankruptcy.

Conservative pundits have lavished mock pity on the state. But as America's chief fount of technology, California cannot go down the drain without dragging the rest of the country with it.

The irony is that a century-long trend of advance in conventional "non-renewable" energy—from wood to oil to natural gas and nuclear—has already wrought a roughly 60% drop in carbon emissions per watt. Thus the long-term California targets might well be achieved globally in the normal course of technological advance. The obvious next step is aggressive exploitation of the trillions of cubic feet of low-carbon natural gas discovered over the last two years, essentially ending the U.S. energy crisis.

The massive vote against repeal of the California law—62% to 38%—supports an economy-crushing drive to suppress CO2 emissions from natural gas and everything else. In a parody of supply-side economics, advocates of AB 32 envisage the substitution of alternative energy sources that create new revenue sources, new jobs and industries. Their economic model sees new wealth emerge from jobs dismantling the existing energy economy and replacing it with a medieval system of windmills and solar collectors. By this logic we could all get rich by razing the existing housing plant and replacing it with new-fangled tents.

All the so-called "renewables" programs waste and desecrate the precious resource of arable land that feeds the world. Every dollar of new wages for green workers will result in several dollars of reduced pay and employment for the state's and the nation's other workers—and reduced revenues for the government.

Most destructive of all is the bill's stultifying effect on America's and California's most important asset: the venture capital industry, which accounts for the nation's technological leadership, military power, and roughly a fifth of GDP.

Led by Al Gore's investment affiliate, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and Byers, the campaign to save AB 32 raised $31 million—more than three times the $10 million that the oil companies raised for repeal. Pouring in millions were such promethean venturers as John Doerr and Vinod Khosla of Kleiner Perkins, Eric Schmidt and Sergei Brin of Google, and the legendary Gordon Moore and Andrew Grove of Intel. The campaign even managed to shake down a contribution from the state's public utility, Pacific Gas and Electric, and gained the backing of the GOP's eBay billionaire gubernatorial candidate, Meg Whitman.

What is wrong with California's plutocratic geniuses? They are simply out of their depth in a field they do not understand. Solar panels are not digital. They may be made of silicon but they benefit from no magic of miniaturization like the Moore's Law multiplication of transistors on microchips. There is no reasonable way to change the wavelengths of sunlight to fit in drastically smaller photo receptors. Biofuels are even less promising. Even if all Americans stopped eating (saving about 100 thermal watts per capita on average) and devoted all of our current farmland to biofuels, the output could not fill much more than 2% of our energy needs.

In the past, Kleiner Perkins funded scores of vital ventures, from Apple and Applied Materials to Amazon and Google. But now Kleiner is moving on to such government- dependent firms as Miasole, Amyris Biofuels, Segway and Upwind Solutions. Many have ingenious technology and employ thousands of brilliant engineers, but they are mostly wasted on pork catchers.

Other venturers plunged into solar panel manufacturer Solyndra, which received some $500 million in federal subsidies and a campaign visit from Barack Obama before laying off 17% of its work force and giving up on a new factory that was supposed to create 1,000 green jobs.

Many of these green companies, behaving like the public-service unions they resemble, diverted some of their government subsidies into the AB 32 campaign for more subsidies. Virtually every new venture investment proposal harbors a "green" angle that turns it from a potential economic asset into a government dependent.

A partial solution is a suit by four attorneys general outside of California. They argue that the California law violates the Constitution's interstate commerce clause because of the limits it places on electricity generated by out-of-state, coal-fired power plants. But ultimately the new Congress must act. The Center for American Progress has found that 50 out of 100 or so new Republican congressmen elected earlier this month are "climate-change skeptics." But Republican leaders such as incoming Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor show dangerous gullibility in the face of environmentalist claims.

Co-sponsoring a disgraceful bill introduced in September to force utilities to expand their use of "renewable energy" to 15% by 2021 are Republican Sens. Sam Brownback and Susan Collins. Republican politicians are apparently lower in climate skepticism than readers ofScientific American, which recently discovered to its horror that some 80% of its subscribers, mostly American scientists, reject man-made global warming catastrophe fears.

Republicans may delude themselves that the U.S. can undertake a costly, inefficient and disruptive transformation of the energy economy, estimated by the International Energy Agency to cost some $45 trillion over 40 years, while meeting our global military challenges and huge debt overhang. But the green campaign wastes scarce and precious technological and entrepreneurial resources indispensable to the nation's future. Now it is debauching America's most precious venture assets. It must be defeated, not appeased.

Mr. Gilder is a founding fellow of theDiscovery Institute.

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Sep 18, 2013 - In his new book Knowledge and Power, futurist George Gilder challenges existing economic theories of both ... Climate refugees? New study examines future impact of global warmingon Pacific Northwest population.

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Willie Soon And Friends In The Early Days Before Climate Science ...

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George Gilder**, "Editor in Chief ofGilder Technology Report, is Chairman of Gilder Publishing LLC, located in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He is also a Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute where he directs Discovery's program on high technology and public policy.

"Born in 1939 in New York City, Mr. Gilder attended Exeter Academy and Harvard University. At Harvard, he studied under Henry Kissinger and helped found Advance, a journal of political thought, which he edited and helped to re-establish in Washington, DC after his graduation in 1962. During this period he co-authored (with Bruce Chapman) The Party That Lost Its Head. He later returned to Harvard as a fellow at the Kennedy Institute of Politics and editor of the Ripon Forum. In the 1960s Mr. Gilder also served as a speechwriter for several prominent official and candidates, including Nelson Rockefeller, George Romney, and Richard Nixon. In the 1970s, as an independent researcher and writer, Mr. Gilder began an excursion into the causes of poverty, which resulted in his books Men and Marriage (1972) and Visible Man (1978); and hence, of wealth, which led to his best-selling Wealth and Poverty (1981).

"Mr. Gilder pioneered the formulation of supply-side economics when he served as Chairman of the Lehrman Institute's Economic Roundtable, as Program Director for the Manhattan Institute, and as a frequent contributor to A.B. Laffer's economic reports and the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal,. In the 1980s he also consulted leaders of America's high technology businesses. According to a study of presidential speeches, Mr. Gilder was President Reagan's most frequently quoted living author. In 1986, President Reagan gave George Gilder the White House Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence.

"In 1986 Gilder was made a Fellow of the International Engineering Consortium. The investigation into wealth creation led Mr. Gilder into deeper examination of the lives of present-day entrepreneurs, culminating in many articles and a book, The Spirit of Enterprise (1986). The book was revised and republished in 1992. That many of the most interesting current entrepreneurs were to be found in high technology fields also led Mr. Gilder, over several years, to examine this subject in depth. In his best-selling work, Microcosm (1989), he explored the quantum roots of the new electronic technologies. A subsequent book, Life After Television, was a prophecy of the future of computers and telecommunications and a prelude to his book on the future of telecommunications, Telecosm (2000).

"Mr. Gilder's latest book The Silicon Eye (2005) travels the rocky road of the entrepreneur on the promising path of disruption, and celebrates some of smartest—and most colorful—technology minds of our time. In this fascinating narrative of personality and technology, Gilder shares his insider knowledge of Silicon Valley and illustrates how the unpredictable mix of genius, drive, and luck that can turn a startup into a Fortune 500 company...

"Mr. Gilder is a contributing editor of Forbes magazine and a frequent writer for The Economist, The American Spectator, the Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications. He lives in Tyringham, Massachusetts, in the Berkshire Mountains, where he is an active churchman, sometime runner, and with his wife Nini, parent of four children." ^[1]

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References

1. ↑ George Gilder, Discovery Institute, accessed July 21, 2007.

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Salvation appeared in the spring of 2000, when Conrad Black, the owner of The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, The (London) Spectator, Canada's National Post, and the Chicago Sun-Times, offered to help the Spectator. Tyrrell had cultivated Black for years and hoped the relationship would one day pay off with a generous investment in the Spectator. After extensive talks with severalSpectator executives, Black, acting in conjunction with two conservative foundations, offered enough money to stabilize the magazine's finances—about $400,000 a year. Black made it clear that his group planned to provide the money indefinitely, guaranteeing the magazine's long-term survival.

But Black wanted much in return. First, he asked for de facto control over the board of directors. Second, he wanted to demote Tyrrell, taking away his title of editor in chief and cutting his pay by 40 percent. Third, he proposed that the widely respected conservative writer David Frum become the new editor of the Spectator. Although the offer would have given the magazine new life, and also, with the association of Black and Frum, a chance to regain its old respectability, it was a mortal threat to Tyrrell. He resolved to stop it.

One day during discussions of the plan, Tyrrell gave Eastland a ride back to the office. Sitting in the black Mercedes, Eastland asked Tyrrell whether he would rather see the Black proposal accepted, which would keep the magazine going but reduce Tyrrell's standing, or reject the proposal, which would mean that the Spectator would go under. "He said without hesitation that he'd choose rejecting the proposal," Eastland recalls. "I asked why, and he said he had a bond with all of those who had taken on Clinton and fought for his impeachment, and that he was seen as a leader of the opposition, and that if he were demoted or marginalized, he would be letting down those who had followed him. He also said Clinton and those around him would notice what a terrible fate had befallen him and take great pleasure from it. In his view, they would be vindicated if that happened."

Tyrrell found what appeared to be an escape route. While the board was still considering the Black proposal, Tyrrell told members he had arranged for a better deal from the high-tech investment guru George Gilder. (In truth, Gilder had pledged to give $250,000 a year for three years, less than what Black's group proposed.) Even though it was not clear whether Gilder's offer would be sufficient to keep the magazine in business, Tyrrell's word was enough for his hand-picked board to say no to Black's bid.

By summer the magazine was almost out of money. In August, Gilder, who was looking for a new publication to feature his views on issues such as Internet bandwidth and the New Economy, offered to buy the Spectator outright. With the magazine a few weeks away from missing a payroll, Tyrrell agreed. He had known Gilder for years; he told employees that the Spectator would still be about politics and culture, but would now take more notice of technology issues. Instead the magazine became something entirely new, virtually unrecognizable to readers of the old Spectator. Gilder would eventually close the office and fire everyone—except Tyrrell, who stayed on, with no control over the magazine he had run for thirty-three years.

Temptation of the Devil

What killed The American Spectator? It's hard to avoid the conclusion that the success it enjoyed in the Troopergate period, rather than establishing the Spectator as the nation's premier conservative magazine, placed it on a path that would end in disaster. The Troopergate article itself, for all its flaws, was a valuable story; vilified though it was by the President's defenders, it was an accurate predictor of the kind of compulsive behavior that Clinton displayed in the White House during his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. But Troopergate also fostered the hubristic notion that the Spectator could bring down a President, which encouraged both Tyrrell and Scaife to pour money into the Arkansas Project. Portrayed by the left as a highly effective political dirty-tricks machine, the project in fact bore more resemblance to a Keystone Kops operation, as Henderson and Boynton crisscrossed Arkansas to no discernible effect.

Why couldn't Tyrrell see that the project—which involved nonjournalists and a private detective funded by a third party—was an extraordinarily dangerous proposition for any journalistic enterprise? Perhaps because Tyrrell never saw the Spectator solely as a journalistic enterprise. Since the early days in Bloomington, Tyrrell had envisioned The Alternative as an adjunct to a political movement. They had their party, we had ours. They had their magazine, we had ours. Years later his letters to Ronald Reagan ("we shall continue the good fight with you") suggested that his views had not changed. Still more years later, as he began the Arkansas Project, he felt the same way.

As for Ron Burr and the others who worked on the business side of the magazine, the Troopergate triumph promised to bring nearly limitless growth. Subscribers were signing up and money was rolling in, and for a moment it appeared that the Spectator might defy the law of gravity that governs small political magazines. Who could argue with that kind of success? "What happened to it was the temptation of the devil," says a conservative who was long associated with the magazine. "There was this dream of worldly financial success that no magazine of its kind has ever or will ever achieve. And it was destroyed by it."

On Monday, July 16, when George Gilder's movers arrived at the Spectator's Arlington office, there wasn't much left to take. They packed up computers and a few pieces of furniture, but threw everything else into an enormous pile for the garbage men to pick up. They threw away original illustrations by Elliott Banfield. They threw away dozens of bound volumes of the Spectator's past issues. And they tossed the old papier-mâché Mencken, dressed in his original black suit, onto a pile of trash—to be discarded the next day, along with everything else.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/11/the-life-and-death-of-the-american-spectator/302343/

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George F. Gilder (born November 29, 1939) is an American writer, techno-utopian intellectual,Republican Party activist, and co-founder of the Discovery Institute. His 1981 bestseller Wealth and Poverty advanced a practical and moral case for capitalism during the early months of the Reagan Administration and made him President Reagan's most quoted living author. ^[1] In 2013, he wrote Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing Our World, which reformulated economics in terms of the information theory of Alan Turing and Claude Shannon.

In the 1970s Gilder established himself as a critic of feminism and government welfare policies; he argued they eroded the "sexual constitution" that socialized men as fathers and providers. In the 1990s he became an enthusiastic evangelist of technology and the Internet through several books and his newsletter the Gilder Technology Report.

• 1 Early years
  • 1.1 Education
  • 1.2 United States Marine Corps

• 2 Career
  • 2.1 Speechwriting
  • 2.2 Supply-side economics
  • 2.3 Technology
  • 2.4 On women and feminism
  • 2.5 Race and welfare
  • 2.6 On "corruption" and "suicide" of Native American and African cultures
  • 2.7 On Christianity, Satanism, and secular education
  • 2.8 Immigration
  • 2.9 *The American Spectator*
  • 2.10 Regular contributor
  • 2.11 Speaking engagements

• 3 Wealth and poverty
• 4 *The Israel Test*
• 5 Intelligent design
• 6 Bibliography (partial)
• 7 Notes
• 8 References
• 9 External links
  • 9.1 Interviews

Early years[edit source | editbeta]

Gilder was born in New York City and raised in New York and Massachusetts. His father, Richard Gilder, was killed flying in the Army Air Forcein World War II when Gilder was three. He spent most of his childhood with his mother and his stepfather, Gilder Palmer, on a dairy farm inTyringham, Massachusetts. David Rockefeller, a college roommate of his father, was deeply involved with his upbringing.^[2]

Education[edit source | editbeta]

Gilder attended Hamilton School in New York City, Phillips Exeter Academy, and Harvard University, graduating in 1962.^[3] He later returned to Harvard as a fellow at the Kennedy Institute of Politics and edited the Ripon Forum, the newspaper of a liberal Republican Ripon Society.

United States Marine Corps[edit source | editbeta]

Gilder served in the United States Marine Corps.^[4]

Career[

Speechwriting[

In the 1960s Gilder served as a speechwriter for several prominent officials and candidates, including Nelson Rockefeller, George Romney, and Richard Nixon. He worked as a spokesman for the liberal Republican Senator Charles Mathias as anti-war protesters surrounded the capital, some eventually scaring Gilder out of his apartment. Gilder moved to Harvard Square the following year and became a writer, modeling himself after Joan Didion.

With his college roommate Bruce Chapman, he wrote an attack on the anti-intellectual policies of the 1964 Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater titled The Party That Lost Its Head (1966). He later recanted this attack, noting: "The far Right – the same men I dismissed as extremists in my youth – turned out to know far more than I did. At least the 'right-wing extremists,' as I confidently called them, were right on almost every major policy issue from welfare to Vietnam to Keynesian economics and defense – while I, in my Neo-Conservative sophistication, was nearly always wrong."^[5]

Supply-side economics[edit source | editbeta]

Supply-side economics was formulated in the mid-1970s by Jude Wanniski and Robert L. Bartley at the Wall Street Journal as a counterweight to the reigning "demand-side" Keynesian economics. At the center of the concept was the Laffer Curve, the notion that high tax rates can reduce government revenue. The opponents of supply-side economics often refer to it as "trickle-down economics."

Inspired by Wanniski and by the works of free-market economists like Milton Friedman and F.A. Hayek and novelist Ayn Rand,^[6] Gilder wrote a book extending the ideas of his Visible Man (1978) into the realm of economics, to balance his theory of poverty with a theory of wealth.^[7]The book, published as the best-selling Wealth and Poverty in 1981, communicated the ideas of supply-side economics to a wide audience in the United States and the world.^[8]

Gilder also contributed to the development of supply-side economics when he served as Chairman of the Lehrman Institute's Economic Roundtable, as Program Director for the Manhattan Institute, and as a frequent contributor to Arthur Laffer's economic reports and the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal.^[9]

Technology[

The first mention of the word "Digerati" on USENET occurred in 1992, and referred to an article by George Gilder in Upside magazine. His other books include Life After Television, a 1990 book that predicted microchip "telecomputers" connected by fiberoptic cable would make broadcast-model television obsolete. The book was also notable for being published by the Federal Express company and featuring full-page advertisements for that company on every fifth page.^[10]

Gilder wrote the books Microcosm, about Carver Mead and the CMOS microchip revolution; Telecosm, about the promise of fiber optics; and his latest, The Silicon Eye, about the Foveon X3 sensor, a digital camera imager chip.

On women and feminism[

Gilder states that men are superior to women in the workplace and in creative ventures outside the home, due to inborn, biologically determined differences between men and women.

Gilder also describes women as "a very physiological consciousness," and asserts that women—due to inborn, biologically determined differences from men—must give up "choice" or else the family will be destroyed. Referring to women, Gilder asserted in 1994:

In the early 1970s Gilder wrote an article in the Ripon Forum defending President Richard Nixon's veto of a day-care bill sponsored by SenatorWalter Mondale (D-MN) and Senator Jacob Javits (R-NY). He was promptly fired as editor of the Forum.^[13]

Gilder enjoyed the controversy, appearing on Firing Line to defend himself and discovered he'd found "a way to arouse the passionate interest of women ... it was clear I had reached pay dirt." He decided to make himself into "America's number-one antifeminist".^[14]

Gilder moved to New Orleans and worked in the mornings for Ben C. Toledano, Republican candidate for the United States Senate in 1972. The rest of the time he wrote Sexual Suicide (1973), revised and reissued as Men and Marriage (1986). He argued that welfare and feminism broke the "sexual constitution" that had weaned men off their predatory instinct for sex, war, and the hunt and had subordinated them to women as fathers and providers. The book achieved a succès de scandale and Time made Gilder "Male Chauvinist Pig of the Year".^[15]

He also stated that divorce "does spread poverty, and bitterness, and feminism, and other problems."^[16]

Race and welfare[

Gilder also wrote Visible Man: A True Story of Post-Racist America (1978, reissued in 1995), which The New York Times described in 1981 as "the account of a talented young black spoiled by the too-ready indolence of America's welfare system."^[17]

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Gilder has asserted that the culture of Native Americans was "corrupt and unsuccessful", and consequently Native American culture "failed". He describes both African and Native American cultures as "destructive cultures", "tragic failures" and "virtual social suicide", and upholding Native American or African cultures is a "terrible perversion."

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Gilder has stated:

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Gilder has praised mass immigration as an economic boon for America and Israel. Although Gilder's support for mass immigration is admittedly framed by high tech hubs such as Silicon Valley's need for computer programmers, he sees recent American immigration policy as being vital to American prosperity overall going so far as to write in the Wall Street Journal that,

Steve Sailer, a fan of Gilder's books on feminism and race, in an 2002 column wrote that this "guess about the net aggregate benefits of immigration to native-born Americans was not only offered without any support evidence whatever, but it actually contradicts a significant economic literature that finds the benefits to be nugatory." Despite Gilder's defense of mass immigration in the Wall Street Journal, it is unclear whether or not Gilder would object to cuts in low-skilled, mostly third world immigration to the United States as emphasized by skeptics of recent American immigration policies such as Pat Buchanan. Former National Review and Forbes writer and VDARE.com founder, Peter Brimelow wrote in 2002,

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Gilder bought the conservative political monthly magazine The American Spectator from its founder, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., in the summer of 2000, switching the magazine's focus from politics to technology.^[22]

Experiencing his own financial problems in 2002,^[23] Gilder sold the Spectator back to Tyrrell.^[24]

Regular contributor[

He makes regular contributions to Forbes as a contributing editor. He also contributes to The Wall Street Journal, Wired and National Review.

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For nearly thirty years, George Gilder has lectured internationally on economics, technology, education, and social theory. He has addressed audiences from Washington DC to the Vatican, and has appeared at numerous conferences, public policy events, and media outlets. Demonstrating his interest in the future of innovation-driven education models, in 2009 Gilder delivered the opening keynote address at the annual EduComm Conference, a nationwide gathering of higher education leaders pursuing breakthrough technologies with the potential to transform the college experience. His annual Telecosm Conference, which he hosts with Steve Forbes, draws technology leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, engineers, and inventors from across the globe. Today his lectures often concern his 2009 book The Israel Test, which deals with the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation, and geo-political stability.^{[citation needed]}

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After completing Visible Man in the late 1970s Gilder began writing "The Pursuit of Poverty." In early 1981 Basic Books published the result asWealth and Poverty. It was an analysis of the roots of economic growth. Reviewing it within a month of the inauguration of the Reagan Administration the New York Times reviewer called it "A Guide to Capitalism". It offered, he wrote, "a creed for capitalism worthy of intelligent people."^[25] The book was a New York Times bestseller^[26] and eventually sold over a million copies.^[27]

:{In Wealth and Poverty Gilder extended the sociological and anthropological analysis of his early books in which he had advocated for the socialization of men into service to women through work and marriage. He wove these sociological themes into the economic policy prescriptions of supply-side economics.

The breakup of the nuclear family and the policies of demand-side economics led to poverty. Family and supply-side policies led to wealth.}:

In reviewing the problems of the immediate past—the inflation, recession, and urban problems of the 1970s—and proposing his supply-side solutions, Gilder argued not just the practical but the moral superiority of supply-side capitalism over the alternatives. "Capitalism begins with giving," he asserted, while New Deal liberalism created moral hazard. It was work, family, and faith that created wealth out of poverty. "It is this supply-side moral vision that underlies all the economic arguments of Wealth and Poverty," he wrote.^[28]

In 1994 Gilder asserted that America has no poverty problem, that the real problem is the "moral decay" of the "so-called poor", and that their real need is "Christian teaching from the churches." He calls the poor in America "the so-called poor" who have been "ruined by the overflow of American prosperity", and asserts they have more purchasing power than the middle class in Japan in the 1990s.

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Gilder's 2009 book The Israel Test is partly described as follows:

—Amazon book description.

Founder of neoconservatism Irving Kristol says about the book: "Everyone talks about 'free enterprise' but no one understands the entrepreneurial basis of economic growth better than George Gilder." While conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh says: "My friends, it would behoove you to study everything you can get your hands on by George Gilder, a true American genius."^[30]

In an interview for National Review, Gilder says the book is about "the cosmic law between success and envy". He further states Israel's role as the following:

—George Gilder, National Review interview July 2009: "Choosing the Chosen People – Anti-Semitism is essentially hatred of capitalism and excellence."^[31]

:{Intelligent design

He helped found the Discovery Institute with Bruce Chapman. The organization started as a moderate group which aimed to privatize and modernize Seattle's transit systems[citation ^needed] but it later became the leading think tank of the intelligent design movement, with Gilder writing many articles in favor of ID and opposing the theory of evolution.^[32] He, like others at the institute, denies that the Shannon information measure alone provides a good measure for biological information, because that measure ignores the actual function or meaning in the code, but Gilder claims that Shannon information theory actually shows that evolution cannot be explained by unintelligent physical causes, because it focuses on "the medium, not the message" (Shannon information is actually a measure of bandwidth, and it is calculated to exclude physical effects so that it measures the amount of abstract meaning that can be carried).^[33]

Bibliography (partial)[edit source | editbeta]

• (with Bruce Chapman) The Party That Lost Its Head Alfred A. Knopf; 1st edition (1966)
• Sexual Suicide (1973)
• Naked Nomads: Unmarried Men in America (1974)
• Visible Man: A True Story of Post-Racist America (1978)
• Wealth and Poverty (1981)
• Men and Marriage (1986)
• Life After Television (1990)
• Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution In Economics And Technology (1989)
• Recapturing the Spirit of Enterprise
• Telecosm: The World After Bandwidth Abundance (2000)
• The Meaning of the Microcosm
• The Silicon Eye: How a Silicon Valley Company Aims to Make All Current Computers, Cameras, and Cell Phones Obsolete (2005)
• The Silicon Eye: Microchip Swashbucklers and the Future of High-Tech Innovation (2006)
• The Israel Test (2009)
• Foreword to The Theology of Welfare

• Gilder, George F. (Summer 2009), "Silicon Israel – How market capitalism saved the Jewish state", City Journal

• Gilder, George F. (July 1973), "The suicide of the sexes", Harper's

• Gilder, George F. (July 1975), "Erect in utopia", Harper's

• Gilder, George F. (September 1978), "Prometheus bound", Harper's

• Gilder, George F. (November 1979), "The make-work economy", Harper's

• Luttwak, Edward; Phillips, Kevin P.; Marin, Peter; Chace, James; FitzGerald, Frances; Gilder, George F.; Kennedy, Paul M. (April 1985),"What are the consequences of Vietnam?", Harper's

• Luttwak, Edward; Reich, Robert B.; Blackwell, Ronald; Dunlap, Albert J. (Albert John); Gilder, George F. (May 1996), "Does America still work?", Harper's

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