Gelernter’s “America Lite”

David Gelernter, professor of computer science at Yale University, was a victim of the Unabomber who was “on to” Gelernter’s innovative ideas about how computers work and can work.

Recovering from being wounded by the mailed bomb, Gelernter proceeded to broaden his perspectives in his subsequent books. His newest, “America Lite,” sounds like an update on Alan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind, his complaint and lament at how Universities are failing in their task to broaden critical thinking.
Here is a short interview and also some brief words by him. (He has an apt name, which in Yiddish means “learned one” or “educated.”)