{"id":15559,"date":"2010-01-01T12:28:44","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T20:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=15559"},"modified":"2010-01-01T12:28:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T20:28:44","slug":"israel-capitalism-and-human-excellence-an-interview-with-author-george-gilder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=15559","title":{"rendered":"Israel, Capitalism, And Human Excellence: An Interview with Author George Gilder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.jewishpress.com\/pageroute.do\/41759\">From The Jewish Press<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>George Gilder&#8217;s latest book, <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Israel-Test-George-Gilder\/dp\/0980076358\">The Israel Test<\/a> (Vigilante Books), is so unabashedly pro-Jewish and pro-Israel that it would make many Jews blush.<\/p>\n<p>In the book (an excerpt of which was featured as the front-page essay in The Jewish Press&#8217;s November 6 issue), Gilder argues that &#8220;Jews have forged much of the science and wealth of [our] era&#8221; and Israeli &#8220;microchip designs are fueling the growth of nations everywhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Editor in chief of the Gilder Technology Report and a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute think tank, which he cofounded, Gilder was educated at Harvard University; served as a speechwriter for Nelson Rockefeller and Richard Nixon, among others; and has written over a dozen books, including the influential Wealth and Poverty (1981). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Jewish Press: George Gilder&#8217;s latest book, The Israel Test (Vigilante Books), is so unabashedly pro-Jewish and pro-Israel that it would make many Jews blush. In the book (an excerpt of which was featured as the front-page essay in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=15559\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17027,45],"tags":[32586,20800,20802,3185,20801,20803],"class_list":["post-15559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-george-gilder","category-the-jewish-press","tag-george-gilder","tag-gilder-technology-report","tag-growth-of-nations","tag-harvard-university","tag-nelson-rockefeller","tag-wealth-and-poverty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}