Lives of Toil and Stress, Not Self Indulgence
In pop culture, images of wealthy executives usually connect the execs with yachts and swimming pools, golf-courses and ski lodges, Gulfstreams, and absurdly expensive restaurants. A more accurate portrayal would emphasize long hours, BlackBerry interruptions, punishing stress, lost sleep and missed family occasions. In ground-breaking work, Dalton Conley, chair of the sociology department at New York University, reveals that “it Read More ›
Israel Inside
The Israel Test By George Gilder (Richard Vigilante Books, 296 pages, $27.95) This latest book from one of the planet’s intellectual titans of the past generation is one of his most important. Given George Gilder’s astonishing range and foresight — including family structure, welfare, the practical and moral case for enterprise capitalist wealth creation, the transformation of the computer and Read More ›
Israel is just too successful for the losers of the Leftist intelligentsia
This article, published by The Telegraph, contains a review of Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder’s book The Israel Test: The unpredictable, sometimes zany, but often brilliant conservative writer George Gilder has just come out with a new book, entitled The Israel Test. The rest of the article can be found here.
Pass This Test
This article, published by National Review, provides a review of Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder’s book The Israel Test: George Gilder is a phenomenon. With a restless and questing mind, he has written books on feminism, capitalism, technology, and other topics. These books are absorbing, provocative, and somewhat original. The rest of the article can be found here.
Gilder Throws Down a Gauntlet
This article, published by Townhall, is about Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder and his book The Israel Test: Charles Murray, no slouch among public intellectuals, described him as the most underrated public intellectual in America today. Murray offered this assessment of George Gilder at a recent American Enterprise Institute colloquium to discuss Gilder’s newest book, “The Israel Test.” The rest Read More ›
Choosing the Chosen People
This article, published by National Review, contains an interview with Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder: Would you pass it? Kathryn Jean Lopez sat down with George Gilder, author of The Israel Test, and asked him a few questions about Israel. The rest of the article can be found here.
Capitalism, Freedom, and Jewish Accomplishment: The Israel Test
George Gilder will present arguments from his new book, The Israel Test, at a forum sponsored by American.com: It is well-known that Israel faces hostility and pressure from religious enemies on its borders. But in a new book, author George Gilder reveals that Israel has also become “the crucial battlefield for capitalism and freedom in our time.” … Gilder will Read More ›
Capitalism, Jewish Achievement, and the Israel Test
Israel has become one of the most important economies in the world, and is second only to the United States in its pioneering of technologies benefitting human life, prosperity, and peace. Like the Jews throughout history, Israel poses a test to the world. In particular, it is a test for any people that lusts for the fruits of capitalism without Read More ›
The Vitality of Israel
This article, published by National Review, is about Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder and his book The Israel Test: George Gilder was one of the speakers on the recent National Review cruise round the Mediterranean, and he gave me a copy of his new book The Israel Test — there, I’ve declared an interest. The rest of the article can be found here.