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''America-Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered in the Obamacrats)'' is a 2012 book by David Gelernter, published by Encounter Books. In ''America-Lite'', Gelernter argues that the profound changes in American society, especially between the 1960s and the 1980s, can be explained by an earlier rise of an academic class quite different from those who dominated pre-War American universities, especially in the Ivy League. Gelernter views the changes in morality, social norms, and attitudes to normativity itself as principally an effect of these academics, recruited from the 1940s onwards, who selectively recruited colleagues sharing their world view,〔John Tierney (2011). ("Social Scientist Sees Bias Within" ). ''The New York Times'', February 7, 2011.〕 and taught this world view to their students.〔Inbar, J and Lammers, J, (2012). (pdf Political Diversity in Social and Personality Psychology ). ''Perspectives in Psychological Science''. DOI:10.1177/1745691612448792〕 A confluence is seen in which acquiescence to academic expertise increases at the same time that core questions as human nature, right and wrong, art, equality, justice, progress, religion etc. are questioned by these experts. The uniformity of this expert opinion, along with ignorance by students of alternatives, is then seen as a relatively straightforward cause of very significant changes in society, rules, laws, regulations, expectations, and attitudes that come to mirror this post-modern world view. It was reviewed in ''The Chronicle of Higher Education'' in the article "Dreaming of a World With No Intellectuals",〔Russell Jacoby, (2012). (Dreaming of a World With No Intellectuals ), ''The Chronicle of Higher Education''.〕 in ''Commentary'' magazine in the article "Reign of Ignorance", In a ''National Review'' interview "Dismantling Culture",〔Kathryn Jean Lopez (2012). ''National Review'' ("Dismantling of a Culture" ), 18 July 2012〕 as well as in ''Publishers Weekly''〔(Review ), ''Publishers Weekly'', 18 June 2012〕 and elsewhere. Stephen Daisley wrote in ''Commentary'' magazine that Gelernter portrays Obama's presidency as a symbol of the failure of American education and the success of its replacement with a liberal indoctrination system. As a solution, Gelernter proposes moving all of human knowledge to online servers so that the in-person college experience can be replaced by user-driven self-education. Daisley wrote, "''America-Lite'' is lean, incisive convincing, delightfully indelicate, and, in a break from the conventions of the literature on education, honest. It is a fine dissection—de-construction, if you must—of the corruption of higher education and the resulting debasement of political culture. If it makes its way on to a single college reading list, Hell will have frozen over."〔 Russell Jacoby was sharply dismissive in his review of Gelernter's book. Among other criticisms he made, Jacoby said that Gelernter blamed intellectuals for causing the breakdown of patriotism and the traditional family but never explained how that came about.〔 ==References== 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「America-Lite」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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