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David Horowitz, born in Forest Hills, New York, on January 10,1939, is a neoconservative American writer and social activist.
Early Life
His parents Phil and Blanche Horowitz were schoolteachers in Sunnyside Gardens, Queens, New York City. They raised him in a strict Stalinist environment. After Nikita Khrushchev's secret report to the 20th Party Congress on Joseph Stalin's crimes became publicly known, Horowitz helped form the New Left—a break with the earlier Communist Party USA. Horowitz became a Marxist supporter of the various leftist causes of the 1960s and 1970s. As the years went on however, Horowitz became very disillusioned with some of the tactics of the American Left, especially after one of his close friends, Betty Van Patter, was murdered in 1974. Horowitz attributes her murder to the Black Panthers, though no one was charged or arrested, and the case remains unsolved.
Education
Intellectual Developement
Horowitz's thinking began to slowly get more conservative, and today he has come full circle and is now regarded as a leading right wing advocate. This transition from a left-wing to a right-wing position is shared in common with many other neoconservatives.
Horowitz, along with some Republican leaders, has been promoting his "Academic Bill of Rights", an eight-point manifesto that seeks to eliminate political bias in university hiring and grading. Horowitz claims that liberal bias in universities amounts to indoctrination and charges that conservatives and particularly Republicans are systematically excluded from faculties.
Notable Articles
Bill of Rights
Books
He has written many books and pamphlets, including The Free World Colossus: A Critique of American Foreign Policy in the Cold War (1971), Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey (1998 ISBN 0684840057), his autobiography; Uncivil Wars : The Controversy Over Reparations For Slavery (2002 ISBN 1893554449); Hating Whitey; The Politics of Bad Faith and Left Illusions: An Intellectual Odyssey, (2003 ISBN 1890626511). Together with Peter Collier he wrote several best-selling biographies of prominent American families:Quote
Concerning Betty Van Patter's murder from Jamie Glazov's introduction to Left IllusionsExternal Links
