AEI.Org: Scholar: David Gelernter Former National Fellow http://www.aei.org:80/scholar/114?presentation=rss Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:58:39 +0100 http://www.aei.org:80/views/images/accountRegistration/aeismall-reg.gif AEI http://www.aei.org:80/home 50 50 AEI Welcome to Cold War II http://www.aei.org:80/article/100349 <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> China is our new Cold War enemy. </body> </html> Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0100 2009-04-03T00:00:00-0400 2009-04-03T00:00:00-0400 The Gothic Vision http://www.aei.org:80/article/29263 <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> Learning to understand images as we do language is one of the great unsolved problems of modern intellectual life. Computer science helps because recursion helps. </body> </html> Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0100 2009-02-02T00:00:00-0500 2009-02-02T00:00:00-0500 Facing Reality http://www.aei.org:80/article/29180 <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> The Bush administration could leave the world a parting gift by calling on the United Nations to enforce its own charter and boot out members that preach the destruction of Israel. </body> </html> Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0100 2009-01-19T00:00:00-0500 2009-01-19T00:00:00-0500 Clean Hands and a Pure Heart http://www.aei.org:80/article/28840 <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> American society has always been unconventional in its search for men of Washington's mold, who care less for power and glory than for freedom, democracy, and doing right. </body> </html> Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100 2008-11-03T00:00:00-0500 2008-11-03T00:00:00-0500 Obama in Leftland http://www.aei.org:80/article/28697 <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> Americanshave an obligation to ponder Obama's views of American reality in the context of his membership in the first generation fully shaped after the Cultural Revolution. </body> </html> Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0100 2008-10-06T00:00:00-0400 2008-10-06T00:00:00-0400 Simple Truths http://www.aei.org:80/article/28744 <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> What McCain needs to stay on the stump. </body> </html> Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0100 2008-10-06T00:00:00-0400 2008-10-06T00:00:00-0400 Has Google Changed the World? http://www.aei.org:80/article/28575 <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> Leading thinkers, including two from AEI, assess what Google has accomplished on the occasion of its tenth anniversary. </body> </html> Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:00:00 +0100 2008-09-05T01:00:00-0400 2008-09-05T01:00:00-0400 Terrorists Shouldn't Profit from Their Crimes http://www.aei.org:80/article/28167 <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> The Unabomber's papers should be locked away. </body> </html> Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0100 2008-06-20T00:00:00-0400 2008-06-20T00:00:00-0400 Feminism and the English Language http://www.aei.org:80/article/27571 <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> The English language used to belong to the readers and writers, but the influence of feminism has altered its characteristics. </body> </html> Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0100 2008-02-25T00:00:00-0500 2008-02-25T00:00:00-0500 Beyond Betar http://www.aei.org:80/article/27239 <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> The Jewsmatchless capacity to read their Gentile neighbors, together with their fixed resolve to survive as a nation, made them what they are today. </body> </html> Mon, 24 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0100 2007-12-24T00:00:00-0500 2007-12-24T00:00:00-0500 Instant Sex http://www.aei.org:80/article/27210 <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> A literary elegy formurdered-by-modernity romantic love. </body> </html> Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0100 2007-12-17T00:00:00-0500 2007-12-17T00:00:00-0500 Captain Hornblower http://www.aei.org:80/article/27128 <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> The late Norman Mailer transformed himself into one of the best English stylists of the later twentieth century and wrote several books that will last. </body> </html> Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0100 2007-11-26T00:00:00-0500 2007-11-26T00:00:00-0500 Defeat at Any Price http://www.aei.org:80/article/26810 <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> Democrats in Congress do not really want to win the war. They are "pacifist globalists" in pursuit of American defeat. </body> </html> Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0100 2007-09-24T00:00:00-0400 2007-09-24T00:00:00-0400 A World without Public Schools http://www.aei.org:80/article/26259 <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> If the consensus underlying American public education has disappeared, why should the institution not do the same? </body> </html> Mon, 04 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0100 2007-06-04T00:00:00-0400 2007-06-04T00:00:00-0400 The Inside-Out Web http://www.aei.org:80/article/26018 <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> The next Web system specializes in helping us grasp time and the past, and where we are--and where we are headed. </body> </html> Mon, 07 May 2007 00:00:00 +0100 2007-05-07T00:00:00-0400 2007-05-07T00:00:00-0400 How Odd of God . . . http://www.aei.org:80/article/26004 <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> A review of Milton Himmelfarb's Jews and Gentiles. </body> </html> Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0100 2007-04-30T00:00:00-0400 2007-04-30T00:00:00-0400 The Role of a Rabbi http://www.aei.org:80/article/25870 <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> Allowing practicinghomosexuals to become Conservative rabbis is a travesty for Judaism. </body> </html> Fri, 30 Mar 2007 01:00:00 +0100 2007-03-30T01:00:00-0400 2007-03-30T01:00:00-0400 Ramping Up the Violence http://www.aei.org:80/article/25639 <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> The truth about the Temple Mount controversy. </body> </html> Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0100 2007-02-26T00:00:00-0500 2007-02-26T00:00:00-0500 Please Say This . . . http://www.aei.org:80/article/25451 <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> Advice on the State of the Union. No charge. </body> </html> Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0100 2007-01-22T00:00:00-0500 2007-01-22T00:00:00-0500 Thus All Too Seldom to Tyrants http://www.aei.org:80/article/25401 <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> Saddam's punishment was a rare instance of just deserts. </body> </html> Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0100 2007-01-15T00:00:00-0500 2007-01-15T00:00:00-0500 Call It Murder http://www.aei.org:80/article/24752 <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> The murder of Pamela Waechter tells us thatit istime for national repentance, or in other words national return, from moralizing to morality. </body> </html> Mon, 14 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0100 2006-08-14T00:00:00-0400 2006-08-14T00:00:00-0400 When Will They Ever Learn... http://www.aei.org:80/article/24694 <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> The problem with the American Jewish left, from 1940 through 2006, is not malevolence but naiveté--naiveté so great, it is the next best thing to stupidity. </body> </html> Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0100 2006-07-31T00:00:00-0400 2006-07-31T00:00:00-0400 The Art of Thinking http://www.aei.org:80/article/24456 <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> A review of Gertrude Himmelfarb's book The Moral Imagination: From Edmund Burke to Lionel Trilling. </body> </html> Mon, 05 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0100 2006-06-05T00:00:00-0400 2006-06-05T00:00:00-0400 Americanism http://www.aei.org:80/book/895 <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> This book is astartlingly original argument about the religious meaning of America and why it is loved--and hated--with so much passion at home and abroad. </body> </html> Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0100 2007-06-19T00:00:00-0400 2007-06-19T00:00:00-0400 Does World War II Still Have a Meaning? http://www.aei.org:80/event/1556 <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> </body> </html> Mon, 05 May 2008 17:30:00 +0100 2008-05-05T17:30:00-0400 2008-05-05T17:30:00-0400 Religion and the American Future http://www.aei.org:80/event/1406 <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> </body> </html> Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:00:00 +0100 2006-10-26T09:00:00-0400 2006-10-26T09:00:00-0400 Does World War II Still Have a Meaning? http://www.aei.org:80/speech/28082 <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> We need to study not only the Holocaust, the Gulag, and Japanese atrocities, butalso thephenomenon of moral collapse as it was connected with the doctrine of state paganism. </body> </html> Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0100 2008-06-01T00:00:00-0400 2008-06-01T00:00:00-0400 A Religious Idea Called "America" http://www.aei.org:80/speech/23883 <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> The complete text of the March 2006 Bradley Lecture presented by David Gelernter. </body> </html> Mon, 13 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0100 2006-02-13T00:00:00-0500 2006-02-13T00:00:00-0500 New Institutions for a New Cultural Establishment http://www.aei.org:80/speech/18900 <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> For the first time in its history, the United States is worse off than it used to be, and new cultural institutions are needed to remedy the situation. </body> </html> Tue, 15 Oct 1996 00:00:00 +0100 1996-10-15T00:00:00-0400 1996-10-15T00:00:00-0400 No More Vietnams http://www.aei.org:80/issue/24473 <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> The United States must finish the job in Iraq and demonstrate that it will never again abandon its soldiers and its friends. </body> </html> Fri, 02 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0100 2006-06-02T00:00:00-0400 2006-06-02T00:00:00-0400