Family, Faith, and Economic Progress

I am soon going to be giving a speech to, not my Harvard class, but my father’s Harvard class. This arose as something of a pleasant surprise because for months I’ve been receiving in the mail every two or three weeks a message from my own Harvard class, which is gathering also in Cambridge. And they were describing the various programs they had for my delectation.

They didn’t suggest that I had anything to contribute to any of them: but nonetheless, they did declare that since we’re obviously undergoing a terrible crisis of the family in America, I would be eager to hear a collection of family counselors whom my classmates had assembled. Beyond that, after that session, I was going to be able to hear about the exhaustion of natural resources in the world and the population explosion, which exerts such terrible pressure on our material endowment. And beyond that, I was going to hear about the problems of the Third World.

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George Gilder

Mr. Gilder is a founder of the Discovery Institute, a venture capitalist, and the author of 15 books, including The Israel Test.

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I am soon going to be giving a speech to, not my Harvard class, but my father’s Harvard class. This arose as something of a pleasant surprise because for months I’ve been receiving in the mail every two or three weeks a message from my own Harvard class, which is gathering also in Cambridge. And they were describing the various programs they had for my delectation.

They didn’t suggest that I had anything to contribute to any of them: but nonetheless, they did declare that since we’re obviously undergoing a terrible crisis of the family in America, I would be eager to hear a collection of family counselors whom my classmates had assembled. Beyond that, after that session, I was going to be able to hear about the exhaustion of natural resources in the world and the population explosion, which exerts such terrible pressure on our material endowment. And beyond that, I was going to hear about the problems of the Third World.