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'''David Joel Horowitz''' (born [[January 10]], [[1939]]) is an American [[American conservatism|conservative]] writer and activist. A prominent supporter of [[Marxism]] and a member of the [[New Left]] in the 1960s, Horowitz later rejected [[Leftism]] and now identifies with the [[right-wing politics|right wing]] of the political spectrum. He is a founder of the [[David Horowitz Freedom Center]] (formerly the Center for the Study of Popular Culture), a writer for the conservative magazine ''[[NewsMax]]'', and the editor of the popular conservative website [[FrontPageMag.com]]. He founded the activist group [[Students for Academic Freedom]] and is affiliated with [[Campus Watch]], and frequently appears on the [[Fox News Channel]] as an analyst.
[[Image:David Horowitz.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Horowitz at a book event.]]
==Early life and career==

David Horowitz was born in 1939 to a [[Jew]]ish family in [[Forest Hills, New York]]. His parents, Phil and Blanche Horowitz, were school-teachers in Sunnyside Gardens, in the [[borough]] of [[Queens]] in [[New York City]]. Horowitz attended [[Columbia University]] and later the [[University of California, Berkeley]], where he received a [[master's degree]] in English literature. 

His parents were long-standing members of the [[Communist Party USA|Communist Party]], which Horowitz would come to reject. While still identifying as a [[Marxism|Marxist]], Horowitz, along with many other [[left-wing politics|left wing]] figures of his generation, embraced the "[[New Left]]", intending to create a socialist movement unstained by ties to the repressive [[Soviet Union]]. Horowitz was employed during the 1960s as a political aide to [[Bertrand Russell]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=1085 |title=Spies Like Us |accessdate=2007-02-01 |first=David |last=Horowitz |date=1997-10-07 |publisher=FrontPageMagazine.com }}</ref> At the same time, Horowitz was a close friend and associate of the Marxist historian, [[Isaac Deutscher]]. Horowitz wrote a biography of Deutscher in 1971. 

After returning to the U.S. in [[1968]], he authored several books that were influential in New Left critiques of American society and particularly its [[Foreign relations of the United States|foreign policy]], including ''The Free World Colossus: A Critique of American Foreign Policy in the Cold War''. Horowitz was an editor at the influential New Left magazine, ''[[Ramparts magazine|Ramparts]].''

Horowitz was a confidant of [[Black Panthers]] leader [[Huey P. Newton]], and provided legal and financial assistance to the black revolutionary organization. He would later cite experiences with his involvement in the Panthers as the primary catalyst for reassessing his views. In December of 1974, his close friend [[Betty Van Patter]], a bookkeeper for the Panthers, was murdered. While the case officially went unsolved, Horowitz has maintained that the Panthers were responsible for her murder, committed in order to silence Van Patter from revealing the organization's financial corruption, and thereafter covered up the killing.

Other events that Horowitz cites as being influential in his political realignment were the impacts of the [[Fall of Saigon|US loss]] in the [[Vietnam War]] on the peoples of [[Indochina]], and particularly [[Cambodia]], which [[Democratic Kampuchea|under the leadership]] of the [[Khmer Rouge]] experienced mass [[terror]] and [[famine]], leading to millions of deaths. Horowitz believes that the far left turned a blind eye to such atrocities because the ideological vision of the Communists was one which they shared. To see it went wrong was to admit that there was something wrong in the ideal itself. The reactions thus ranged from  disinterest to apologia, exemplified by George Hildebrand and Gareth Porter's ''Cambodia: Starvation and Revolution'', which presented a much more favorable depiction of life under the Khmer Rouge than later came to be accepted.

Along with close associate [[Peter Collier (political author)]], Horowitz hosted a 1987 "Second Thoughts Conference" in [[Washington, D.C.]], described by left-wing figure [[Sidney Blumenthal]] in ''[[The Washington Post]]'' as a "coming out" of left-wing radicals to the right, although Horowitz has denied having that intention.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=8018 |title=Sid Vicious |accessdate=2007-02-01 |first=David |last=Horowitz |date=2003-05-30 |publisher=FrontPageMagazine.com }}</ref>

His political and ideological transformation has been recounted in a series of memoirs and retrospectives, culminating in ''Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey'', published in 1996. 
In [[1988]] Horowitz had described his transformation from left to right in the introduction to a book entitled ''Convert Cadre: Inside the Institute for Policy Studies'', featuring material taken from [[John Train]].

==Activism on the right==

Growing out of their increasing "second thoughts," Horowitz and Collier committed to a completely different cause: opposition to the new status quo of academia and what they perceived to be the destructive influence of it and the [[Baby boomer|new generation]] of academics. Peter Collier wrote that, "there was only one antidote for the new orthodoxy: ''Heterodoxy''."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=152&type=issue |title=Issues: Heterodoxy |accessdate=2007-02-01 |publisher=Discoverthenetworks.org }}</ref> Thus in 1992, the same year as the [[United States presidential election, 1992|election]] of [[President of the United States|President]] [[Bill Clinton]], ''[[David Horowitz Freedom Center#Heterodoxy magazine|Heterodoxy magazine]]'' was founded.

Since that time, Horowitz has involved himself in an increasing number of organizations and movements intended to counter alleged left-wing political and intellectual influence, and to redress various grievances with academia.

He was later noted for his staunch opposition to [[affirmative action]] policies, as well as [[reparations for slavery]].<ref name="whyreparations">{{cite web |url=http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=1153 |title=Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Blacks is a Bad Idea for Blacks - and Racist Too |accessdate=2007-02-01 |first=David |last=Horowitz |date=2001-01-03 |publisher=FrontPageMagazine.com }}</ref> Horowitz is also known for his support for a proactive, [[interventionism|interventionist]] foreign policy associated with the "[[neoconservatism|neoconservatives]]", a label that Horowitz rejects as a smear. FrontPageMag.com, his right-leaning website, carries editorials from many authors who were and are strongly pro-Israel, anti-Radical Islam, supportive of the [[war on terror]] and the [[2003 invasion of Iraq|war in Iraq]]. However, Horowitz personally opposed American intervention in the [[Kosovo War]], arguing that it was unnecessary and harmful to US interests.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=1196 |title=Stop This War |accessdate=2007-02-01 |first=David |last=Horowitz |date=1999-05-11 |publisher=FrontPageMagazine.com }}</ref>

Viewing the political atmosphere of many universities as intolerant of such ideas, he went so far as to purchase, or attempt to purchase, advertising space in school publications in order to get his views and arguments across. Many of these offers were refused and at some schools papers which carried the ads were confiscated or destroyed by protesting campus groups.<ref name="whyreparations"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2001/03/09/horowitz/ |title=Who's afraid of the big, bad Horowitz? |accessdate=2007-02-01 |first=Joan |last=Walsh |date=2001-03-09 |publisher=Salon.com }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.projo.com/words/brown2.htm |title=Embattled editors get Herald out at Brown |accessdate=2007-02-01 |first=Si |last=Rosenbaum| date=2001-03-18 |publisher=The Providence Journal Company }}</ref>

In 2004, Horowitz launched [[Discover the Networks]], a conservative watchdog project that monitors funding for, and various ties among, individuals and organizations supportive of leftist causes. Part of the motivation for Discover the Networks is Horowitz's view that leftist individuals and groups support, whether consciously or not, [[Islamism|Islamic]] [[terrorism]], and thus require ongoing scrutiny. This theme is explored in Horowitz's 2004 book, ''[[Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left|''Unholy Alliance'']].

An [[agnosticism|agnostic]] [[Jew]], Horowitz has rejected the tendency of [[social conservatism|social conservatives]] to support [[sodomy laws]], and attacked laws that were still existing on the books. He criticized the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] for being unwilling to gear itself towards the [[civil rights]] of [[homosexual]]s, noting that more homosexuals [[United States presidential election, 2000|voted]] for [[George W. Bush]] in 2000 than did blacks or Jews. While Horowitz disagrees with the [[gay marriage]] movement, he believes homosexuals have a fundamental right to privacy and that the term "[[homosexual agenda]]", common among right-wing pundits, is an "intolerant" one.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=7910 |title=Pride Before a Fall |accessdate=2007-02-01 |first=David |last=Horowitz |date=2003-05-20 |publisher=FrontPageMagazine.com }}</ref>

==Academic Bill of Rights==
The issue of the so-called political abuse of the university is currently Horowitz's main focus.  His 2006 book, ''[[The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America]]'', criticizes individual professors for their professorial conduct. Much of his criticism is aimed at any critical of the State of Israel. According to Horowitz, these professors engage in indoctrination rather than a disinterested pursuit of knowledge.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cms.studentsforacademicfreedom.org//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2&Itemid=5 |title=About Students for Academic Freedom |accessdate=2007-02-01 |publisher=Students For Academic Freedom }}</ref>

Horowitz and others promote his [[Academic Bill of Rights]], an eight-point manifesto that seeks to eliminate what they see as political bias in university hiring and grading. Horowitz claims that bias in universities amounts to indoctrination, and charges that conservatives and particularly Republicans are "systematically excluded" from faculties, citing statistical studies on faculty party affiliation.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://select.nytimes.com/2005/10/11/opinion/11tierney.html |title=Where Cronies Dwell |accessdate=2007-02-01 |first=John |last=Tierney |date=2005-10-11 |publisher=New York Times }}</ref> Critics of the proposed policy, such as [[Stanley Fish]], have argued that "academic diversity," as Horowitz describes it, is not a legitimate academic value, and that no endorsement of "diversity" can be absolute.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://chronicle.com/free/v50/i23/23b01301.htm |title='Intellectual Diversity': the Trojan Horse of a Dark Design |accessdate=2007-02-02 |first=Stanley |last=Fish |date=2004-02-13 |publisher=The Chronicle of Higher Education }}</ref>

In Pennsylvania, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives created a special legislative committee to investigate the state of academic freedom and whether students who hold unpopular views need more protection. In November 2006 it reported that it couldn’t find evidence of problems with students’ rights.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/11/16/tabor |title=Who Won the Battle of Pennsylvania? |accessdate=2007-02-02 |first=Scott |last=Jaschik |date=2006-11-16 |publisher=Inside Higher Ed }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/11/22/tabor |title=From Bad to Worse for David Horowitz|accessdate=2007-02-02 |first=Scott |last=Jaschik |date=2006-11-22 |publisher=Inside Higher Ed }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=25899 |title=Victory in Pennsylvania |accessdate=2007-02-02 |first=Sara |last=Dogan |date=2006-12-08 |publisher=FrontPageMagazine.com }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=25619 |title=What We're Up Against—The Lying Pennsylvania Press |accessdate=2007-02-02 |first=David |last=Horowitz |date=2006-11-21 |publisher=FrontPageMagazine.com }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://cms.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2308&Itemid=52 |title=Pennsylvania Legislative Committee Advocates Sweeping Reforms to Campus Academic Freedom Policies |accessdate=2007-02-02 |first=Sara |last=Dogan |date=2006-11-16 |publisher=Students For Academic Freedom}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://cms.studentsforacademicfreedom.org//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2324&Itemid=40 |title=Pennsylvania’s Academic Freedom Reforms |accessdate=2007-02-02 |first=David |last=Horowitz |date=2006-12-06 |publisher=Students For Academic Freedom}}</ref>

===Criticisms questioning Horowitz's 'liberal bias on campuses' evidence===
Some stories Horowitz has used as evidence that U.S. colleges and universities are bastions of liberal indoctrination have been disputed.<ref>[http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2006-05-31-horowitz-cover_x.htm]</ref> For example, throughout 2004 Horowitz told the story of a University of Northern Colorado student who received a failing grade on a final exam for refusing to write an essay arguing that George W. Bush is a war criminal.<ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15043]</ref><ref>[http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/archive/2005/March2005/UNColoradostorydetails031405.htm]</ref> A spokeswoman for the university said that the test question was not as described by Horowitz and that there were non-political reasons for the grade, which was not an F.<ref>[http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/03/15/horowitz3_15]</ref> Horowitz responded that (a) the student had indeed received an "F" on the exam but had appealed her grade on the course and been awarded a "B", and (b) that the questions as supplied by UNC could not have been written at the time of the exam, but even so were evidence of indoctrination, not education, as claimed.<ref>[http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/03/15/horowitz3_15]</ref><ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17621]</ref>

Horowitz also claimed that a Pennsylvania State University biology professor showed his students the film Fahrenheit 9/11 just before the 2004 election in an attempt to influence their votes.<ref>The [[Students for Academic Freedom]] report [http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/literature/CFAF_v23gz.pdf "The Campaign for Academic Freedom,"] p. 38</ref><ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=18947]</ref> Horowitz later acknowledged that he had not been able to confirm his source's story.<ref>[http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/01/11/retract]</ref><ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21998]</ref>

Finally, Horowitz has referred to the case of a student named Ahmad al-Qloushi, whose professor allegedly responded to an "irrational[ly]" "pro-American" essay by failing him and threatening to visit the Dean of International Admissions (who had the power to take away student visas) to make sure he received regular psychological treatment.<ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16550]</ref><ref>[http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/archive/December2004/Foothillchronology121304.htm]</ref> His professor admits suggesting al-Qloushi visit a counselor, but for anxiety resulting from events that had happened to al-Qloushi in Kuwait ten years before rather than any irrationalty of al-Qloushi's politics, and denies mentioning the Dean.<ref>[http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/archive/2005/March2005/AhmadFoothillDefendingPatArabsRights033105.htm]</ref><ref>[http://mediamatters.org/items/200502220005]</ref><ref>[http://hereswhatsleft.typepad.com/home/2005/02/on_january_26_2.html]</ref><ref>[http://www.thefire.org/index.php/article/5425.html]</ref>

Horowitz has also come under fire for material in his books, particularly ''[[The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America|The Professors]]''.<ref>[http://www.tpmcafe.com/node/26850]</ref><ref>[http://www.nyu.edu/classes/siva/archives/002808.html]</ref> For example, [[Media Matters for America]] claims that only 48 the 100 (not 101) professors listed were criticized for in-class behavior and activities,<ref>[http://mediamatters.org/items/200604180011]</ref> despite Horowitz's claim that he makes "a very clear distinction between what's done in the classroom" and "what professors say as citizens."<ref>[http://mediamatters.org/items/200604100003]</ref> The group [[Free Exchange on Campus]] issued a 50-page report in May of 2006 in which they take issue with many of Horowitz's assertions in the book and describe what they see as factual errors, unsubstantiated assertions, and quotations which appear to be either misquoted or taken out of context.<ref>[http://www.freeexchangeoncampus.org/index.php?option=com_docman&Itemid=25&task=view_category&catid=12&order=dmdate_published&ascdesc=DESC]</ref><ref>[http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/05/09/report]</ref><ref>[http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/24935.html]</ref> 

Jacob Laksin has since issued a lengthy, three-part response to this report on FrontPageMag.com.<ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22870]</ref><ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/readarticle.asp?ID=22871&p=1]</ref><ref>[http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/archive/2006/June2006/ProfessorsDiscountingtheFactsIII061206.htm?ID=22872&p=1]</ref><ref>[http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/26622.html]</ref>
which, among other things, claims that Free Exchange on Campus misrepresents itself as being "disinterested observers".  According to Laskin, "The groups comprising the Free Exchange coalition are chiefly distinguished by their partisan commitment to left-wing political causes and their support for the politicized and one-sided academic status quo."   Laskin cites member organizations, [[Campus Progress]] (which Laskin claims is funded by [[George Soros]]), the [[American Civil Liberties Union]] and [[People for the American Way]] as examples.  Laskin also claims the report "misrepresents and distorts the arguments of ''[[The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America|The Professors]]'' in order to attack the book and its author, and is not above fabricating evidence to make its case," and that while the report does catch some errors in Horowitz's book, they are trivial and "in no way affect the substantive arguments of the book or the conclusions drawn in the individual profiles of the professors included."<ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22870]</ref>

==Other Criticism== 
===Allegations of bigotry===
[[Chip Berlet]], writing for the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] (SPLC), identified Horowitz's Center for the Study of Popular Culture as one of 17 "right-wing foundations and think tanks support[ing] efforts to make bigoted and discredited ideas respectable." Berlet accused Horowitz of blaming slavery on "'black Africans ... abetted by dark-skinned Arabs'" and of "attack[ing] minority 'demands for special treatment' as 'only necessary because some blacks can't seem to locate the ladder of opportunity within reach of others,' rejecting the idea that they could be the victims of lingering racism."<ref>{{cite web|last = Berlet|first = Chip|year = 2003|url = http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=105|title = Into the Mainstream|work = Intelligence Report|publisher = [[Southern Poverty Law Center]]|accessdate = 2006-04-23}}</ref> Responding with an open letter to [[Morris Dees]], president of the SPLC, Horowitz stated that his reminder that the slaves transported to America were bought from African and Arab slavers was a response to demands that only whites pay blacks reparations, not to hold Africans and Arabs solely responsible for slavery, and that the statement that he had denied lingering racism was "a calculated and carefully constructed lie." The letter said that Berlet's work was "so tendentious, so filled with transparent misrepresentations and smears that if you continue to post the report you will create for your Southern Poverty Law Center a well-earned reputation as a hate group itself."<ref>{{cite web | last = Horowitz | first = David | authorlink = David Horowitz (conservative writer) | year = 2003 | url = http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=9622 | title = An Open Letter To Morris Dees | work = FrontPageMagazine.com | publisher = FrontPageMagazine.com | accessdate = 2006-04-23}}</ref> The SPLC refused,[http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/readarticle.asp?ID=9831] and subsequent critical pieces on Berlet and the SPLC have been featured on Horowitz's website and personal blog.<ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=9830]</ref><ref>{{cite web | last = Arabia | first = Chris | year = 2003 | url = http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10352 | title = Chip Berlet: Leftist Lie Factory | work = FrontPageMagazine.com | publisher = FrontPageMagazine.com | accessdate = 2006-04-23}}</ref>

[[Tim Wise]], self-described "anti-[[racism|racist]] essayist, lecturer and activist" criticized<ref>[http://www.zmag.org/Sustainers/content/2002-12/16wise.cfm]</ref> Horowitz in the left-wing publication, ''[[Z Communications|Znet]]'' for associating with alleged racists, pointing to his acceptance of funding from the [[Bradley Foundation]], which supported the publication of ''[[The Bell Curve]]'', as well for running a modified piece by [[white nationalism|white nationalist]] [[Jared Taylor]] on the media treatment of black-on-white murders. When Horowitz ran the piece, he admitted that the decision to do so would be controversial, but denied that Taylor was a racist, instead arguing that his "[[racialism]]" was an example of [[identity politics]] precipitated by an intellectual surrender to [[multiculturalism]]; Horowitz denied that he and his publication share the agendas of Taylor.<ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/blog/printable.asp?ID=13]</ref>

==Books==
*''Student: The Political Activities of the Berkeley Students'' (1962)
*''Empire and Revolution: A Radical Interpretation of Contemporary History'' (1970 ISBN 0-394-70856-3)
*''Corporations and the Cold War'', edited, and with introduction (1970 ISBN 0-85345-160-5)
*''The Free World Colossus: A Critique of American Foreign Policy in the Cold War'' (1971 ISBN 0-8090-0107-1)
*''Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the '60s'' by Peter Collier, David Horowitz (1989  ISBN 0-671-66752-1)
*''The Art of Political War And Other Radical Pursuits''
*''How to Beat the Democrats and Other Subversive Ideas''
*''Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey'' (1998 ISBN 0-684-84005-7) autobiography
*''Uncivil Wars: The Controversy Over Reparations For Slavery'' (2002 ISBN 1-893554-44-9)
*''Hating Whitey: and Other Progressive Causes'' ISBN 1-890626-21-X
*''The Politics of Bad Faith: The Radical Assault on America’s Future''
*''Left Illusions: An Intellectual Odyssey'' (2003 ISBN 1-890626-51-1)
*''[[Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left]]'' ([[Regnery Publishing]], 2004 ISBN 0-89526-076-X)
*''[[The Anti-Chomsky Reader]]'' with Peter Collier ([[Encounter Books]], 2004 ISBN 1-893554-97-X)
*''The End Of Time'' (2005 ISBN 1-59403-080-4)
*''[[The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America]]'' ([[Regnery Publishing]], 2006 ISBN 0-89526-003-4)

===Histories co-authored with Peter Collier===
*''The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty'' (1976)
*''The Kennedys: An American Drama'' (1985)
*''The Fords: An American Epic'' (1987)
*''The Roosevelts: An American Saga'' (1994)

==Quotations==
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*''Liberation is no longer, and can be no longer, merely a national concern. The dimension of the struggle, as Lenin and the Bolsheviks so clearly saw, is international: its road is the socialist revolution.'' - from the 1969 book "Empire and Revolution".

*''For the sake of the poorest peasants in this godforsaken country, I can't wait for the Contras to march into this town and liberate it from these fucking Sandinistas!'' - In the dining room of the [[Managua]] Intercontinental Hotel in [[Nicaragua]], during the fall of 1987.

*''If blacks are oppressed in America, why isn't there a black exodus?'' - from the 1999 [[Salon.com]] article, "Guns don't kill black people, other blacks do".

*''The black middle-class in America is a prosperous community that is now larger in absolute terms than the black underclass. Does its existence not suggest that economic adversity is the result of failures of individual character rather than the lingering after-effects of racial discrimination and a slave system that ceased to exist well over a century ago?'' - From "Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Blacks is a Bad Idea for Blacks and Racist Too".

*''Leftists want to regulate everything but hard drugs and sex.'' - from a speech at [[Michigan State University]].

*''Republicans like art, so people who are genuine artists shouldn't worry." - from a sidebar in an article in the [[Minneapolis Star Tribune]] about cutbacks in the NEA.

*''More than ever before, for humanity to live under [[capitalism]], is to live on borrowed time.'' - from the 1969 book "Empire and Revolution".

*''For the continuing worldwide oppression of class, nation and race, the incalculable waste and untold misery, the unending destruction and preparation for destruction and the permanent threat to democratic order that characterize the rule of capitalism in this, its most technically advanced, most "enlightened" and most materially wealthy era now threaten human survival itself. In the age of atomic weapons and intercontinental missiles, the predatory system of imperialist rivalry and global exploitation, of military intervention and counterrevolutionary war, faces mankind with the prospect of the ultimate barbarism.''- from the 1969 book "Imperialism and Revolution".

*''Commodity fetishism is the key to the prosperity and efficiency of the [[capitalist]] economy and to the relative peace of capitalist states. It is what makes us work together.''- Debate with Michael Albert 2001

*''[[Baghdad]] is liberated. In the days to come let us not forget that if it was not for one man, and one man alone—George Bush—the people of Iraq would not be celebrating in the streets and pulling down Saddam's statues today... We have entered the era of a new civil war between the forces of freedom and the powers of [[Islamo-fascist]] and [[communist]] darkness, and once again the left is clearly detemined to take its stand on the other side. The good news is that [[United States|America]] is back. Our military has performed superlatively. Our leadership has stood tall. We ourselves can celebrate over this and look confidently towards what lies ahead.''—FrontPageMagazine.com | April 9, 2003

==References==
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==External links==
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*[http://www.frontpagemag.com/AboutHorowitz/index.asp FrontPage magazine.com About Horowitz]
*[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Content/read.asp?ID=27 Bibliography Of Published Works]
*[http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/ Students for Academic Freedom] - website promoting Horowitz's "Academic Bill of Rights"
*{{SourceWatch|id=David_Horowitz|page=David Horowitz}}
*[http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2001/03/13/horowitz/print.html Horowitz: "I'm not a racial provocateur"] - Salon.com
*[http://aaup-ca.org/larkin_horowitz.html Legislating Academic Freedom: The Larkin-Horowitz Debate]
*[http://www.zmag.org/horowitz_flap.htm Debates with David Horowitz and ZNet writers]
*[http://rightalk.listenz.com/!ARCHIVES/ChurchillVSHorowitz2-64-44M.mp3 Audio file of Horowitz debating with Ward Churchill]
*[http://dangerousprofessors.net/ Dangerous Professors] A companion website to Horowitz's book.
*[http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15316 Unholy Alliance: Part I] An interview by Jamie Glazov.

===Public Criticism===
*[http://www.freeexchangeoncampus.org/ Free Exchange On Campus] - coalition of AAUP, AFT, ACLU, and NEA, critical of Horowitz.
*[http://www.campusprogress.org/tools/155/know-your-right-wing-speakers-david-horowitz Know Your Right-Wing Speakers: David Horowitz]
*[http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20000703&c=1&s=sherman "David Horowitz's Long March"] - Scott Sherman, ''[[The Nation (U.S. periodical)|The Nation]]''
*[http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/people/davidhorowitz Media Matters entries on Horowitz]
*[http://reason.com/links/links091703.shtml "Chilling Effects: David Horowitz tries to redefine 'academic freedom'"] - [[Jesse Walker]], [[Reason Magazine]]
*[http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=David_Horowitz_(ex-Marxist) Disinfopedia - David Horowitz]
*[http://www.counterpunch.org/nimmo1031.html The Delusions of David Horowitz] - ''[[Counterpunch]]''.
*[http://www.mediatransparency.com/personprofile.php?personID=15 David Horowitz] - MediaTransparency profile of Horowitz.
*[http://www.rwor.org/a/013/horowitz-battering-ram.htm Revolutionary Worker: Meet the Real David Horowitz]
*[http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_Horowitz_%28ex-Marxist%29 David Horowitz ex-Marxist]
*[http://www.bsudailynews.com/media/storage/paper849/news/2006/11/09/News/Two-Horowitz.Protesters.Arrested-2449653.shtml?norewrite200611101906&sourcedomain=www.bsudailynews.com Ball State University Horowitz Protest]

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