Career George Gilder

1 career

1.1 speechwriting
1.2 supply-side economics
1.3 technology
1.4 on women , feminism
1.5 race , welfare
1.6 on corruption , suicide of native american , african cultures
1.7 on christianity, satanism, , secular education
1.8 support immigration
1.9 american spectator
1.10 regular contributor
1.11 speaking engagements

career
speechwriting

in 1960s gilder served speechwriter several prominent officials , candidates, including nelson rockefeller, george w. romney, , richard nixon. worked spokesman liberal republican senator charles mathias, antiwar protesters surrounded capital; scared gilder out of apartment. gilder moved harvard square following year, , became writer modeled himself after joan didion.

with college roommate, bruce chapman, wrote attack on anti-intellectual policies of 1964 republican presidential candidate barry goldwater, party lost head (1966). later recanted attack: far right – same men dismissed extremists in youth – turned out know far more did. @ least right-wing extremists, confidently called them, right on every major policy issue welfare vietnam keynesian economics , defense – while i, in neo-conservative sophistication, wrong.

supply-side economics

supply-side economics formulated in mid-1970s jude wanniski , robert l. bartley @ wall street journal counterweight reigning demand-side keynesian economics. @ center of concept laffer curve, idea high tax rates reduce government revenue. opponents refer trickle-down economics.

inspired wanniski , works of free-market economists milton friedman , friedrich hayek , novelist ayn rand, gilder wrote book extending ideas of visible man (1978) realm of economics, balance theory of poverty theory of wealth. book, published best-selling wealth , poverty in 1981, communicated ideas of supply-side economics wide audience in united states , world.

gilder contributed development of supply-side economics when served chairman of lehrman institute s economic roundtable, program director manhattan institute, , frequent contributor laffer s economic reports , editorial page of wall street journal.

technology

the first mention of word digerati on usenet occurred in 1992 , referred article gilder in upside magazine. other books include life after television, 1990 book predicted microchip telecomputers connected fiberoptic cable make broadcast-model television obsolete. book notable being published federal express company , featuring full-page advertisements company on every fifth page.

gilder wrote books microcosm, carver mead , cmos microchip revolution; telecosm, promise of fiber optics; , latest, silicon eye, foveon x3 sensor, digital camera imager chip. book cover of silicon eye reads, how silicon valley company aims make current computers, cameras, , cell phones obsolete. foveon sensor has not achieved goal , has not yet been used in cell phones.

gilder active investor in private companies , serves chairmen of advisory board in israel-based asocs discovered during research israel test.

on women , feminism

gilder states men emotionally/sexually inferior, counterbalance existential asymmetry, more driven women in secular workplace , in creative ventures outside home because of inborn, biologically determined differences between men , women. woman creates baby, linchpin of humanity, whereas man creates metaphor—the machine protects family nature .

... men inferior sexually... superior in workplace , in great creative ventures outside family circle. has been true throughout human history , true. denial of perverse , destructive because men have absolutely central role in society commensurate with, yet different from, familial role of women.

gilder describes women physiological consciousness, , asserts women, because of inborn, biologically determined differences men, must give choice or family destroyed. referring women, gilder asserted in 1994:

her sexuality determines long term goals. physiological consciousness, knows can bear , nurture children. has central role in perpetuation of species.... women s movement tragically reduces female sexuality terms of male sexuality. when happens, reduces herself male level of recreational sex. paradoxically, when happens woman loses power on men , reverence , respect toward procreative potential of woman lost. , destroys family. if power of choice given up, woman ascends higher level of sexuality , body attains mystical power on men.

in 1970s, gilder wrote article in ripon forum defending president richard nixon s veto of day-care bill sponsored senator walter mondale (d-mn) , senator jacob javits (r-ny). promptly fired editor.

gilder enjoyed controversy, appearing on firing line defend himself. discovered had found way arouse passionate interest of women... clear had reached pay dirt. decided make himself america s number-one antifeminist .

gilder moved new orleans , worked in mornings ben toledano, republican candidate united states senate in 1972 , party s nominee mayor of new orleans in 1970. also, wrote sexual suicide (1973), revised , reissued men , marriage (1986). argued welfare state , feminism broke sexual constitution had weaned men off predatory instinct sex, war, , hunt, , had subordinated them women fathers , providers. book achieved succès de scandale , time made gilder male chauvinist pig of year.

he stated divorce spread poverty, , bitterness, , feminism, , other problems.

race , welfare

gilder wrote visible man: true story of post-racist america (1978, reissued in 1995), new york times described in 1981 account of talented young black spoiled too-ready indolence of america s welfare system.

on corruption , suicide of native american , african cultures

gilder has asserted culture of native americans corrupt , unsuccessful , native american culture failed. describes both black , native american cultures destructive cultures , tragic failures , virtual social suicide. considered upholding native american or black cultures terrible perversion.

indian culture didn’t fail because virtuous. failed because corrupt , unsuccessful culture. these tribal cultures [multiculturalists] trying import africa tragic failures, too. uphold these destructive cultures have been virtual social suicide people live in them terrible perversion.

on christianity, satanism, , secular education

gilder has stated:

religion primary. unless culture aspiring toward good, true, , beautiful, , wants , true, worships god, readily worships satan. if turn away god, our culture becomes dominated real crime stories , rap music , other spew.... when culture becomes corrupt, businesses serve culture become corrupt.... secular culture in general corrupt, , degraded, , depraved. because don t believe in secular culture, think parochial schools real schools.

support immigration

gilder has praised mass immigration economic boom in both , israel. although gilder s support mass immigration admittedly framed high tech hubs such silicon valley s need computer programmers, sees recent american immigration policy being vital american prosperity overall going far write in wall street journal

without immigration on last 50 years, estimate u.s. real living standards @ least 40% lower.

steve sailer, fan of gilder s books on feminism , race, wrote 2002 column guess net aggregate benefits of immigration native-born americans not offered without support evidence whatever, contradicts significant economic literature finds benefits nugatory.

despite gilder s defense of mass immigration in wall street journal, unclear whether or not gilder object cuts in low-skilled, third world immigration united states, emphasized skeptics of recent american immigration policies such pat buchanan.

former national review , forbes writer , vdare.com founder, peter brimelow wrote in 2002,

...gilder nice man – , in person curiously undogmatic immigration. hadn t thought much. wanted, told investment conference moderating in mid-2000, assured supply of cheap computer programmers – other that, didn t care. , thought immigrants ought able speak english. @ last remark, entire audience of fat cats, uneasy our argument, burst loud applause.

the american spectator

gilder bought conservative political monthly magazine american spectator founder, emmett tyrrell, in summer of 2000, switching magazine s focus politics technology.

experiencing own financial problems in 2002, gilder sold spectator tyrrell.

regular contributor

he makes regular contributions forbes contributing editor. contributes wall street journal, wired , national review.

speaking engagements

for thirty years, has lectured internationally on economics, technology, education, , social theory. has addressed audiences washington, dc, vatican, , has appeared @ numerous conferences, public policy events, , media outlets.

demonstrating interest in future of innovation-driven education models, in 2009 gilder delivered opening keynote address @ annual educomm conference, nationwide gathering of higher education leaders pursuing breakthrough technologies potential transform college experience. annual telecosm conference, hosts steve forbes, draws technology leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, engineers, , inventors across globe.

today, lectures concern 2009 book, israel test, deals relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation, , geopolitical stability.