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'''David Joel Horowitz''' (born [[January 10]], [[1939]]) is an American [[American conservatism|conservative]] writer and activist.  The son of two life-long members of the Communist Party and once a prominent supporter of [[Marxism]] as well as a member of the [[New Left]] in the [[1960s]], Horowitz later rejected [[Leftism]] and is now a prominent advocate  for [[right-wing]] causes. He is a founder of the [[David Horowitz Freedom Center]] (formerly the Center for the Study of Popular Culture), and has served as president of that organization for many years. He is the editor of the conservative website [[FrontPage Magazine]], and his writings can also be read on prominent news sites and publications, including the conservative magazine ''[[NewsMax]]''.<ref>[http://www.newsmaxstore.com/nm/newsmax_pundits.cfm NewsMax Pundits<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> He founded the activist group [[Students for Academic Freedom]] and is affiliated with [[Campus Watch]]. He occasionally appears on [[Fox News Channel]] as an analyst.

==Early life and career==

David Horowitz was born in 1939 to a [[Jew]]ish family in [[Forest Hills, Queens|Forest Hills]], a neighborhood of the New York City borough of [[Queens]]. His parents, Phil and Blanche Horowitz, were school teachers in nearby [[Sunnyside Gardens, Queens|Sunnyside Gardens]]. Horowitz attended [[Columbia University]], receiving a [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] in 1959 with a major in English, 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]]. While still identifying as a [[Marxism|Marxist]], Horowitz, along with many other [[left-wing politics|left wing]] figures of his generation, sought to distance himself from the [[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> Horowitz at this time was a close friend and associate of Marxist historian [[Isaac Deutscher]]. Horowitz wrote a biography of Deutscher in 1971.<ref>''Isaac Deutscher: The Man and his work.'' London: Macdonald, 1971.</ref>

After returning to the U.S. in 1968 Horowitz wrote 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 1974, his close friend [[Betty Van Patter]], a bookkeeper for the Panthers, was murdered.<ref>[http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20000703&s=sherman David Horowitz's Long March<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> While the case officially went unsolved, Horowitz has maintained that the Panthers were responsible for her murder, which, he alleges, they 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|U.S. 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 [[fear|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. The reactions ranged from disinterest to apologia, exemplified by [[George Hildebrand (writer)|George Hildebrand]] and [[Gareth Porter]]'s ''Cambodia: Starvation and Revolution'', which rejected allegations of mass killings by the [[Khmer Rouge]].  

Along with close associate [[Peter Collier (political author)|Peter Collier]], Horowitz hosted a 1987 "Second Thoughts Conference" in [[Washington, D.C.]], described by liberal journalist [[Sidney Blumenthal]] in ''[[The Washington Post]]'' as his "coming out" as a supporter of the right. According to attendee [[Alexander Cockburn]], at that conference Horowitz recounted that his communist parents had not permitted him or his sister to watch Doris Day and Rock Hudson movies and instead had required them to watch celebratory films about the Soviet Union.[http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn05312003.html] His gradual shift to the right has been recounted in a series of memoirs and retrospectives, culminating in 1996's ''Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey''.

==Activism on the right==

Growing out of their increasing "second thoughts", Horowitz and Collier committed to a new cause, opposing what they assert is a [[baby boomer]] new left status quo in academia. [[Peter Collier (political author)|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> 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.

Horowitz became an opponent of [[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 also supported the [[interventionism|interventionist]] foreign policy associated with the "[[neoconservatism|neoconservatives]]", a label that Horowitz rejects as a smear.  FrontPageMag.com, his conservative website, carries editorials from many authors who were and are strongly supportive of the [[war on terror]] and the [[2003 invasion of Iraq|war in Iraq]]. However, along with many Republican opponents of the [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] Administration<ref>{{cite web |url=www.senate.gov/~rpc/releases/1999/fr022299.htm|title=February 22, 1999
Clinton Kosovo Intervention Appears Imminent}}</ref> Horowitz opposed American intervention in the [[Kosovo War]],  arguing that it was unnecessary and harmful to U.S. 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>  

He has voiced support for the [[Euston Manifesto]], but has suggested that it has little chance of reforming the Left and that its signatures have more in common with [[Tony Blair]] than with what Horowitz calls "the anti-American left."<ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID={7404B5CA-0BA1-445C-A5FE-F4FB8D41CB22} FrontPage Magazine<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

Horowitz purchased, or attempted 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 stolen or destroyed.<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 provide support, intentionally or not, for [[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''.

An [[agnosticism|agnostic]], Horowitz has rejected what he sees as the intolerance of some Christian conservatives towards [[homosexuals]]. While Horowitz disagrees with [[gay marriage]], he believes homosexuals have a fundamental right to privacy and that the term "[[homosexual agenda]]", common among right-wing pundits, is an "intolerant" one. He criticized them for accepting the claims of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] that it represents [[homosexual]]'s interests, noting that 30% of homosexuals [[United States presidential election, 2000|voted]] for [[George W. Bush]] in 2000, more than did blacks, Hispanics, or Jews. <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 "political abuse" of the university is currently Horowitz's main focus.  He, Eli Lehrer, and [[Bruin Alumni Association|Andrew Jones]] published a study entitled "Political Bias in the Administrations and Faculties of 32 Elite Colleges and Universities" (2004).  The overall ratio of Democrats to Republicans they were able to identify at the 32 schools was more than 10 to 1 (1,397 Democrats, 134 Republicans, 1891 unidentified).  With regard to administrators, they reported that they could find only 3 Republican administrators in the entire Ivy League.  [http://www.frontpagemag.com/Content/read.asp?ID=55][http://www.aaup-ca.org/Larkin_abor.html][http://www.washingtontimes.com/commentary/20040420-084524-4394r.htm]

Horowitz's book, ''[[The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America]]'' (2006), criticizes individual professors for their professorial conduct. Much of his criticism is aimed at those who are critical of [[Israel]]. Horowitz accuses these professors of engaging 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]] (ABR), an eight-point guide that seeks to eliminate political bias in university hiring and grading. Horowitz says 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 2004 a version of the ABR was adopted by the Georgia General Assembly on a 41-5 vote.[http://www.aaup-ca.org/Larkin_abor.html][http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2003_04/fulltext/sr661.htm]

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>

==Criticism==
===Academia===
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 USATODAY.com - Ex-liberal navigates right<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> For example, 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 crimes|war criminal]].<ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15043 FrontPage Magazine<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/archive/2005/March2005/UNColoradostorydetails031405.htm University of N. Colorado Story Confirmed - University of Northern Colorado - News - Students For Academic Freedom<!-- Bot generated title -->]</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 Tattered Poster Child :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, and Views and Jobs<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Horowitz responded that the student had indeed received an "F" on the exam but had appealed her grade on the course and been awarded a "B", and that the questions as supplied by UNC were evidence of indoctrination, not education, as claimed.<ref>[http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/03/15/horowitz3_15 Tattered Poster Child :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, and Views and Jobs<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17621 FrontPage Magazine<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

Horowitz also claimed that a [[Pennsylvania State University]] biology professor showed his students the film ''[[Fahrenheit 9/11]]'' just before the [[United States presidential election, 2004|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 Article<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Horowitz later acknowledged that he had not been able to confirm this story.<ref>[http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/01/11/retract Retractions From David Horowitz :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, and Views and Jobs<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21998 FrontPage Magazine<!-- Bot generated title -->]</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 FrontPage Magazine<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/archive/December2004/Foothillchronology121304.htm Chronological Overview of Foothill Outrage - Foothill College - News - Students For Academic Freedom<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> His professor admits suggesting al-Qloushi visit a counselor, but for anxiety resulting from events that had happened to al-Qloushi in [[Kuwait]] 10 years before rather than for his politics, and denies mentioning the Dean.<ref>[http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/archive/2005/March2005/AhmadFoothillDefendingPatArabsRights033105.htm Defending a Patriotic Arab Student's Rights - Press Coverage - Foothill College - News - Students For Academic Freedom<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://mediamatters.org/items/200502220005 Media Matters - Hannity & Colmes , Horowitz ignored facts undermining GOP student's claim that professor failed him for "pro-American" paper<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://hereswhatsleft.typepad.com/home/2005/02/on_january_26_2.html Here's What's Left: The continuing saga of Ahmad al-Qloushi's essay<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.thefire.org/index.php/article/5425.html FIRE - Clearing the Air on Al-Qloushi<!-- Bot generated title -->]</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 of the 100 (not 101) professors listed were criticized for in-class behavior and activities,<ref>[http://mediamatters.org/items/200604180011 Media Matters - David Horowitz debunks David Horowitz: a Media Matters analysis of The Professors<!-- Bot generated title -->]</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 Media Matters - Horowitz falsely claimed he doesn't attack professors' "political speech" outside the "classroom"<!-- Bot generated title -->]</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 Free Exchange on Campus - Downloads<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/05/09/report Fact-Checking David Horowitz :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, and Views and Jobs<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/24935.html History News Network<!-- Bot generated title -->]</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 FrontPage Magazine<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/readarticle.asp?ID=22871&p=1 FrontPage Magazine<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/archive/2006/June2006/ProfessorsDiscountingtheFactsIII061206.htm?ID=22872&p=1 Discounting the Facts, Part III - News - Students For Academic Freedom<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/26622.html History News Network<!-- Bot generated title -->]</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 identify 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 FrontPage Magazine<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

===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 [[Africa]]ns … abetted by dark-skinned [[Arab]]s'" 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 FrontPage Magazine<!-- Bot generated title -->]</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-racist essayist, lecturer and activist" criticized<ref>[http://www.zmag.org/Sustainers/content/2002-12/16wise.cfm ZNet Commentary: Making Nice With Racists: David Horowitz and The Soft Pedaling Of White Supremacy<!-- Bot generated title -->]</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 Taylor's agenda.<ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/blog/printable.asp?ID=13]</ref>

===Criticism of Ron Paul===

On Glenn Beck's CNN Headline News show, Horowitz recently criticized [[Ron Paul]]'s US Presidential candidacy.  "I think it's very significant he (Ron Paul) chose [[Guy Fawkes]] as an image...There are plenty, unfortunately, libertarian websites which are indistinguishable from the anti-American left these days - LewRockwell.com and others like that - they are totally in bed with the Islamofascists and have turned against this country."<ref>[http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0711/12/gb.01.html CNN.com - Transcripts<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

In a March 5, 2007 interview in [[FrontPage Magazine]], Horowitz stated that "[[Ron Paul]] – the only Libertarian in Congress – is a disgrace. He has waged a war against America’s war on terror, in lockstep with the left, and against the state of [[Israel]], the frontline democracy in this war."<ref>[http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID={CA5CFCDE-651B-45D1-B93A-DFF2F3912525} FrontPage Magazine<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

==Books and other publications==

* ''Student: The Political Activities of the Berkeley Students'' (New York: Ballantine Books, 1962)

* ''Corporations and the Cold War'' (editor) (New York: Monthly Review, 1969)

* ''Sinews of Empire'' Ramparts, October 1969, pp. 32-42

* ''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

* ''Second Thoughts: Former Radicals Look Back at the Sixties'', ed. by Peter Collier and David Horowitz (Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1989)  ISBN 0-8191-7148-4

* ''Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the '60s'', by Peter Collier and David Horowitz (New York: Summit Books/Simon & Schuster, 1989)  ISBN 0-671-66752-1

* ''Beyond Left and Right: Insurgency and the Establishment'' (University of Illinois Press, 1997) ISBN 0252022661

* ''The Race Card: White Guilt, Black Resentment, and the Assault on Truth and Justice'' (Prima Lifestyles, 1997) ISBN 0761509429

* ''The Art of Political War And Other Radical Pursuits'' (Spence Publishing, 2000) ISBN 1890626287

* ''How to Beat the Democrats and Other Subversive Ideas'' (Spence Publishing, 2002) ISBN 1890626414

* ''Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey'' (New York: The Free Press, 1997) autobiography ISBN 0-684-82793-x 

* ''Uncivil Wars: The Controversy Over Reparations For Slavery'' (2002) ISBN 1-893554-44-9

* ''Hating Whitey: and Other Progressive Causes'' (Spence Publishing, 1999)  ISBN 1-890626-21-X

* ''The Politics of Bad Faith: The Radical Assault on America’s Future'' (Free Press, 2000) ISBN 0684856794

* ''Left Illusions: An Intellectual Odyssey'' (Spence Publishing, 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

* ''Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party'' (Thomas Nelson Books, 2007) ISBN 1595551034

* ''Indoctrination U:The Left's War Against Academic Freedom'' ([[Encounter Books]], 2007) ISBN 1594031908

===Histories co-authored with Peter Collier===

* ''The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty'' (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1976)  ISBN 0-03-008371-0
* ''The Kennedys: An American Drama'' (New York: Summit Books/Simon & Schuster, 1985)  ISBN 0-671-44793-9
* ''The Fords: An American Epic'' (New York: Summit Books/Simon & Schuster, 1987) ISBN 0-671-66951-6
* ''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".

*''In the sociology of the left, including the NAACP, there cannot be a wound the black community inflicts on itself that is not ultimately the responsibility of malicious whites.'' - from the 1999 [[Salon.com]] article, "Guns don't kill black people, other blacks do".

*''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".

*''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 "Empire 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 were 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 determined 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/ 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"
*[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.
*[http://youtube.com/watch?v=MuM5ZSqet1s] Youtube clip of Horowitz attacking and slandering the Ron Paul supporters.

===Public criticism===

*[http://www.freeexchangeoncampus.org/ Free Exchange On Campus] - coalition of AAUP, AFT, ACLU, and NEA, critical of 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.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]
* [http://reboot.stlimc.org/newswire_audio2007/introduction-teach-tolerance-washington-university-st.-louis Podcast of Teach-In Criticizing "Islamofascism Awareness Week" Organized by David Horowitz]
* Max Blumenthal [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/the-demons-of-david-horow_b_71441.html video] of David Horowitz's "Islamofascism Awareness Week"

==Alternate Academic Views==
* [[Marc H. Ellis|Ellis, M. H.]] (1997) ''Unholy alliance: religion and atrocity in our time'' Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Publishers. ISBN 0-8006-3080-7.
* [[Henry Giroux]] (2006) ''America on the Edge'' New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 1-4039-7159-5.

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