25 Facts About David Gelernter

David Hillel Gelernter was born on March 5,1955 and is an American computer scientist, artist, and writer.

David Gelernter is a professor of computer science at Yale University.

David Gelernter is known for his belief, expressed in his book America-Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture, that liberal academia has a destructive influence on American society.

David Gelernter is in addition known for his views against women in the workforce, and his rejection of the scientific consensus regarding anthropogenic climate change and evolution.

In 1993 David Gelernter was sent a mail bomb by Ted Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber.

David Gelernter opened it and the resulting explosion almost killed him, leaving him with permanent loss of use of his right hand as it destroyed four fingers, and permanent damage to his right eye.

David Gelernter's father Herbert Gelernter was a physicist who, in the late 1950s and 1960s, became a pioneer in artificial intelligence and taught computer science at State University of New York at Stony Brook.

David Gelernter's grandfather was a rabbi, and David Gelernter grew up as a Reform Jew; he later became a follower of Orthodox Judaism.

David Gelernter received his Bachelor of Arts in computer science from Yale University in 1976 and received a Master of Arts in Classical Hebrew literature from the same university.

On June 24,1993, David Gelernter was severely injured opening a mail bomb sent to him by the Unabomber.

David Gelernter recovered from his injuries, but his right hand and eye were permanently damaged.

David Gelernter chronicled the ordeal in his 1997 book Drawing Life: Surviving the Unabomber.

David Gelernter helped found the company Mirror Worlds Technologies, which in 2001 released Scopeware software using ideas from his 1992 book Mirror Worlds.

David Gelernter believed that computers can free users from being filing clerks, by organizing their data.

David Gelernter's paintings have been exhibited, sold, stolen and recovered in New Haven and Manhattan.

David Gelernter has critiqued what he perceives as cultural illiteracy among students.

David Gelernter is a former national fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and senior fellow in Jewish thought at the Shalem Center.

David Gelernter has spoken out against women in the workforce, saying working mothers were harming their children and should stay at home.

David Gelernter has argued for the US voting age to be raised, on the basis that 18-year-olds are not sufficiently mature.

In July 2019, in a review of Stephen Meyer's book Darwin's Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design, which David Gelernter wrote for the Claremont Review of Books, he rejected the scientific consensus of evolutionary biology.

David Gelernter's review cites no scientific publications at all, and makes claims like 'Many biologists agree' and 'Most biologists think' without giving any supporting citations.

David Gelernter makes a fool of himself in his review, which resembles a 'greatest hits' of creationist misconceptions and lies.

Scottish columnist Stephen Daisley wrote in Commentary magazine that David Gelernter portrayed Obama's presidency as a symbol of the failure of American education and the success of its replacement with a liberal indoctrination system.

David Gelernter has contributed to magazines such as City Journal, The Weekly Standard, and Commentary that are generally considered neoconservative.

David Gelernter has published in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.