David Horowitz
David Horowitz is the editor-in-chief of NewsReal Blog and FrontPage Magazine. He is the President and CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center. His most recent book is Reforming Our Universities
This article originally appeared at Salon, on March 15, 1999.
In the aftermath of the Senate trial of the president, the nation has been struggling to “move on,” to put the scandal and the partisan standoff over the impeachment process behind it and to get on with the political business at hand. Both left and right have stakes in moving forward, particularly as a new election cycle approaches. With a few exceptions, the consensus on both sides reflects this desire. Nonetheless, closure is not a foregone conclusion.
One distraction has been the testimony of Juanita Broaddrick,previously known as Jane Doe No. 5, whom the president allegedly raped in an Arkansas hotel room 20 years ago. Another is Monica Lewinsky’s TV appearance and the publication of her gossipy book. Both have poured fuel on old fires. read more…
And of course, there will be millions of so-called liberals in the West who will buy this propaganda.
This article first appeared at Salon, on March 29, 2010.
Those who condemn the betrayals of the witch-hunt era need to look now at their own.
It is just a little over two years ago that I wrote my first column for Salon, a piece about Elia Kazan in which I called for an end to America’s “longest blacklist.” I did not say so at the time, but I felt a kinship with Kazan in the fact that the invitation to write for Salon had ended my own long exile from the literary culture, the result of a kind of graylist in force for ex-radicals like myself. read more…
This article originally appeared at Salon, on July 19, 1999.
A few years ago I found myself in Nashville at a two-day gathering of liberal “media experts” sponsored by Vice President Al Gore. The purpose of the meeting was to provide a “scientific” rationale for the censorship that Gore and the president (who also attended) were preparing to launch against the nation’s entertainment industry.
The event was held in an auditorium at Vanderbilt University, where Gore orchestrated the proceedings from the stage. With all the obtuseness that generally characterizes his thought process, the vice president was saying scary things like “the link between real-world violence and television violence is exactly analogous to the link between cigarette smoking and cancer.” read more…
David Horowitz’s Archives: Why Israel Is The Victim And The Arabs Are The Indefensible Aggressors In the Middle East
This article first appeared in FrontPage Magazine on January 9, 2002.
1. The Jewish Problem and Its “Solution”
ZIONISM is a national liberation movement, identical in most ways to other liberation movements that leftists and progressives the world over — and in virtually every case but this one — fervently support. This exceptionalism is also visible at the reverse end of the political spectrum: In every other instance, right-wingers like Patrick Buchanan oppose national liberation movements that are under the spell of Marxist delusions and committed to violent means. But they make an exception for the one that Palestinians have aimed at the Jews. The unique opposition to a Jewish homeland at both ends of the political spectrum identifies the problem that Zionism was created to solve. read more…
From a Michigan Newspaper Editorial:
Today is a day for conservatives to thank Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid for destroying the Democratic majority in Congress, stopping the progressive juggernaut and putting Republicans in a perfect position to take control of the Senate in 2012 and eject the Radical-in-Chief from his Oval perch. Watching the MSNBC leftists Olbermann, Matthews and Maddow try to explain away the rejection of their policies by the American people and attribute it to “outside money,” inept messaging, insufficiently radical policies and poor instructions to their camp followers was a particularly satisfying experience. Keep on thinking that way comrades, encourage Obama and Reid to open the throttle on the socialist express and – as Karl Rove put it with a joyful exuberance in his FoxNews commentary — “drive that train off the cliff.”
This was an election night which saw the state houses in North Carolina and Alabama go Republican for the first time since 1872 and 1874, which cast out — often by landslide margins — “old bull” Democrats Skelton, Boucher, Oberstar and Edwards, who had been in the House for more than twenty years and had stuffed their districts with enough pork to keep their voters satisfied and the seats they held their personal property for as long as they drew breath. Here was a night that saw the election of a Republican governor in the unionized Michigan by a twenty-point landslide, and the installation of Republican governors through the arc of the Midwest from Wisconsin through Illinois and Ohio for the first time in half a century, along with the state house and legislature of keystone Pennsylvania. Here was a sixty-seat flip in the U.S. House of Representatives a feat that hasn’t been achieved since 1948. read more…
This post first originally appeared at Salon, on August 2, 1999.
Who in America today could be associated with a gang that carried out an execution-style murder of a prominent public official and the murder of a pregnant woman during a bank hold-up, and then, when finally arrested, be championed as an “idealist” by church officials, Democratic Party legislators, columnists and local activist groups?
The answer: a progressive activist who remains faithful to her leftist faith. read more…
This article originally appeared on 7 May 2010, here.
I put this question to my investor friend, whom I’ll call Angel Ware, about the situation in Europe:
Any insights into the ramifications of the Greek crisis?
Here is his answer:
“Well, it depends. The first question is whether or not the EU (i.e. Germany) will successfully be able to bail out the Greeks. There are some significant forces conspiring to screw this up. 1. The Greek people and their massive sense of entitlement. Even the threat of an austerity program has caused deadly riots and crippling strikes (including the internal revenue department going on strike). read more…
This article first appeared at Salon on 28 May, 1999.
On many occasions over the past few years, including innumerable campaign appearances and three State of the Union addresses, the president of the United States has looked the American people in the eye and assured them that because of his policies, “There are no more nuclear missiles pointed at any children in the United States.”
For President Clinton, the truth of this statement probably depends on what the meaning of “are” is. read more…
Louis Farrakhan
This article first appeared at Salon, on September 13, 1999.
One of the many letters responding to my Salon News column aboutblack racism and denial was from an angry Chicago reader named Alice Huber, who introduced herself as an African-American woman married to a white man.
According to Huber, I was indeed a “bigot,” as columnist Jack White had labeled me, slanderously, in Time magazine. Moreover, I was “the worst kind.” I had earned the sobriquet “racist” by suggesting that blacks might no longer be “oppressed” as a group in America, by questioning whether white racism was the immediate or principal cause of problems afflicting black youth like violence and educational failure. read more…
