Don’t miss contributing editor David Gelernter’s thoughts on the future of the Internet. A lot is going on in his 35-paragraph essay, but I was struck by this observation in particular: Nowness is one ...

A couple of deeply unflattering and unnecessarily sneering headlines from the Washington Post this week have me worried about the paper’s night editors. Consider, for example, the following headline, ...

The Yale computer scientist last month met with then-President–elect Donald Trump and key advisors to discuss, among other things, the position of Director of the Office of Science and Technology ...

As the parent of two college-age students, a discussion of the challenges they confront is both serious and complex. Unfortunately, David Gelernter chose to use the topic as part of his quest to lay ...

In his provocative newest, Gelernter (Judaism: A Way of Being), a professor of computer science at Yale, argues that the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s gave rise to Imperial Academia and to a ...

I would find David Gelernter’s objection to using human embryos for stem cell research more compelling if he was also calling for the outlawing of fertility clinics. The clinics intentionally create ...

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