David Horowitz

Neoconservative activist, writer

David Horowitz is an American conservative writer and activist who went through an ideological transformation from the New Left to neoconservatism. He founded several organizations, including the David Horowitz Freedom Center and Students for Academic Freedom, and has written extensively on cultural criticism and prominent American families.

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About the David Horowitz

David Joel Horowitzis an American conservative writer and activist. He is a founder and president of the David Horowitz Freedom Center (DHFC); editor of the Center’s website FrontPage Magazine; and director of Discover the Networks, a website that tracks individuals and groups on the political left. Horowitz also founded the organization Students for Academic Freedom.

Horowitz wrote several books with author Peter Collier, including four on prominent 20th-century American families. He and Collier have collaborated on books about cultural criticism. Horowitz worked as a columnist for Salon.

From 1956 to 1975, Horowitz was an outspoken adherent of the New Left. He later rejected progressive ideas and became a defender of neoconservatism. Horowitz recounted his ideological journey in a series of retrospective books, culminating with his 1996 memoir Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey.

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David Joel Horowitz (born January 10, 1939) is an American conservative writer and activist. He is a founder and president of the David Horowitz Freedom Center (DHFC).

The David Horowitz Freedom Center (DHFC) is an organization founded by David Horowitz. It operates the website FrontPage Magazine and the website Discover the Networks, which tracks individuals and groups on the political left.

From 1956 to 1975, David Horowitz was an outspoken adherent of the New Left. He later rejected progressive ideas and became a defender of neoconservatism, recounting his ideological journey in a series of retrospective books, culminating with his 1996 memoir ‘Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey.’

David Horowitz wrote several books with author Peter Collier, including four on prominent 20th-century American families. He and Collier have also collaborated on books about cultural criticism.

In addition to the David Horowitz Freedom Center, Horowitz also founded the organization Students for Academic Freedom.

Before becoming a conservative writer and activist, David Horowitz worked as a columnist for Salon.

David Horowitz was born on January 10, 1939.

17 Quotes by David Horowitz

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    For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation.

    David Horowitz

    Neoconservative activist, writer

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    Conservatives, please. Let’s not duplicate the manias of the Left as we figure out how to deal with Mr. Obama. He is not exactly the anti-Christ, although a disturbing number of people on the Right are convinced he is.

    David Horowitz

    Neoconservative activist, writer

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    The issue here isn’t whether every student is brainwashed, it’s whether it is appropriate.

    David Horowitz

    Neoconservative activist, writer

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    Israel is the canary in the mine. What happens to Israel will eventually happen to America itself.

    David Horowitz

    Neoconservative activist, writer

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    Instead of educating students, these professors are trying to indoctrinate them.

    David Horowitz

    Neoconservative activist, writer

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    Politics is about winning. If you don’t win, you don’t get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit the battle out.

    David Horowitz

    Neoconservative activist, writer

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    I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The first provision of the Academic Bill of Rights is that no professor should be hired or fired because of his or her political views. I have never myself called for the firing of any professor for his or her political views, nor would I.

    David Horowitz

    Neoconservative activist, writer

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    As a result of America’s efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks.

    David Horowitz

    Neoconservative activist, writer

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    If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.

    David Horowitz

    Neoconservative activist, writer

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    You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth.

    David Horowitz

    Neoconservative activist, writer

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    There can be no peace with someone who wants to kill you.

    David Horowitz

    Neoconservative activist, writer

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    In practice, socialism didn’t work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.

    David Horowitz

    Neoconservative activist, writer

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    A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.

    David Horowitz

    Neoconservative activist, writer

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    A key to the mentality of the left is that it judges itself by its best intentions, and judges its opponents – America chief among them – by their worst deeds.

    David Horowitz

    Neoconservative activist, writer

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    When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they’re not thinking for themselves.

    David Horowitz

    Neoconservative activist, writer

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    We can trust our doctors to be professional, to minister equally to their patients without regard to their political or religious beliefs. But we can no longer trust our professors to do the same.

    David Horowitz

    Neoconservative activist, writer

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    What the left says sounds very good but, in practice, it works out very badly.

    David Horowitz

    Neoconservative activist, writer