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 was originally published by FrontPage Magazine on March 31, 2006.
Long before Senator McCarthy enjoyed his hour of disreputable fame, another Joseph had discovered how to deal effectively with political rivals. Not only the inquisitive senator, but every political inquisitor since, has owed a primary debt to comrade Stalin. It was Stalin’s sinister genius to realize that arguing a case was not the best way to prevail in a dispute. Engaging his opponents on the merits of their critique was not his choice. Instead, he arranged show trials to conflate them with Adolf Hitler and purge them from his party’s ranks. So why should it surprise me when the left-wing opponents of academic freedom avoid engaging the argument on its merits and instead focus their efforts on conflating me with Senator McCarthy? read more…
But taking from the rich to give to the poor is exactly what it sounds like: robbery.
This article was originally published by Salon on May 24, 1997. It has been reformatted for readability.
It is almost a decade since the Marxist empire began crumbling, yet the crackpot ideas of its founder live on. The idea that wealth is a form of “social injustice,” and that redistributing income is a worthy and progressive goal remains persuasive to people in government and out. That’s why America, for example, still has a capital gains tax, which specifically targets money earned from the creation of wealth. read more…
This article originally appeared at FrontPage Magazine, on February 28, 2008.
In November 2005, National Review celebrated William Buckley’s 80th birthday and the magazine’s 50th with a big party in Manhattan. David Horowitz was unable to attend, but sent this birthday greeting to Mr. Buckley –The Editors.
Dear Bill,
It’s been twenty years since we both went up to Dartmouth to speak in support of the Darthmouth Review students whose battle was an early harbinger of the conservative tide that it is sweeping the campuses today. I recall vividly how you arrived in the evening after a full working day, and spoke for two hours to a thousand Dartmouth youngsters and then hung around until late at night with the Review conservatives whose idol and inspiration you were. In the morning, you flew back to New York with us in that tiny commuter plane where you sat crammed between Peter Collier and me in the narrow back row. While we wiped the cobwebs from our eyes and tried to shake off our travel weariness, you banged out your next day’s column on what must have been one of the early lap tops perched on your knees. The conservative campus movement which has now grown so large, was planted from seeds you more than anyone else sowed a half century ago with your book on Yale and the organization you launched — the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. I also recall the days in the Sixties when you were the only conservative figure known to campus radicals like myself. read more…
This article was originally published at FrontPage Magazine, on March 02, 2006.
Like several local media outlets, the Seattle Times recently ran a story about the treatment of one of its hometown academics who was profiled in my book, The Professors. Like most local papers the Times also tilted its report heavily in favor the professor I had criticized. To make its defense of the indefensible plausible, the Times suppressed the heart of the case I had made both in the book and in my interview with its reporter. The academic under scrutiny is David Barash, Professor of Psychology at the University ofWashington and co-author of a standard textbook used in “Peace Studies” courses. In the Times’ account Professor Barash laughed at the idea that he should be included in my book and so, in effect, did the Timesitself. Without any information other than that provided by the Times, I probably would be laughing, too. read more…
This post originally appeared at FrontPage Magazine, on June 20, 2008.
David Horowitz delivered the following speech at the David Horowitz Freedom Center retreat in Santa Barbara, which was held at the Four Seasons Resort May 30-June 1. — The Editors.
We’re in an election year where a hawkish presidential candidate should win in a walk. Al Qaeda has been roundly defeated in Iraq. It’s on the run. Its leadership has been destroyed. Acts of terror these days are videos which it sends to Al Jazeera. The Iraqi military is more and more in control of the security in the country. What the Al Qaeda leaders have called the central front in the War on Terror, which is Iraq, has been denied to them and denied to Iran. And, yet, when McCain runs as a supporter of the war, that’s considered a tough argument for him. read more…
This article originally appeared at FrontPage Magazine, on June 4, 2008.
Most conversations about the coming elections focus on the question of which candidate is most suited to lead the nation as it confronts the challenges and threats ahead. A better question would be to ask whether there is one party– the Democratic Party — which has demonstrated in word and deed that it is unfit to lead the nation in war at all. Criticism of government policy is essential to a democracy. But in the last five years the Democratic Party has crossed the line from criticism of war policy to fundamental sabotage of the war itself, a position no American party has taken until now.
Starting in July 2003, just three months into the war in Iraq, the Democratic National Committee ran a national TV ad whose message was: “Read his lips: President Bush Deceives the American People. This was the beginning of a five-year, unrelenting campaign to persuade Americans and their allies that “Bush lied, people died,” that the war was “unnecessary” and “Iraq was no threat.” In other words, for five years, the leaders of the Democratic Party have been telling Americans, America’s allies and America’s enemies that their country was an aggressor nation, which had violated international law, and was in effect the “bad guy” in the war with the Saddam Hussein regime. read more…
This article originally appeared at FrontPage Magazine, on December 14, 2006.
Even as Islamic Hitlerites gather in Iran to deny the first Holocaust of the Jews and to plot the second, former president Jimmy Carter tours America with a new book that describes Jews as racists and oppressors, and suggests they are also a conspiratorial mafia that intimidates “critics,” controls America’s media and war policy, and are therefore also the source of Islamic terrorism and the Arabs’ genocidal campaign to eliminate them from the map of the Middle East.
In other words, Americans beware of the Jew in your midst. read more…
The world’s smallest political quiz here. Hat tip to Supervisor Mike Antonovich.
David Horowitz’s Archives: Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Blacks is a Bad Idea for Blacks – and Racist Too
This FrontPage Magazine article was originally published on January 03, 2001.
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There Is No Single Group Clearly Responsible For The Crime Of Slavery
Black Africans and Arabs were responsible for enslaving the ancestors of African-Americans. There were 3,000 black slave-owners in the ante-bellum United States. Are reparations to be paid by their descendants too? read more…
This article originally appeared at FrontPage Magazine, on October 15, 2008.
In the introduction to Rebels All!,Kevin Mattson’s unconventional look at conservatives, the historian acknowledges that conservative ideas need to be taken seriously. This is a refreshing departure from the wish of most liberals and all leftists that conservative ideas would just disappear. It is also the reason I asked FrontpageMagazine editor Jamie Glazov to interview Mattson and promote his new book. Readers of Frontpage know that I have conducted a five year campaign to urge university professors who are almost universally on the left to assign conservative texts in their courses so that there might actually be two sides to the controversial issues they address. For my pains in conducting this effort to support an intellectual dialogue I have been rewarded with the sobriquets “McCarthyite” and “chief organizer of the campus thought police” by academic leftists who want to teach their political prejudices as though they were scientific facts. read more…
An idiotic fake flyer produced by leftists at George Washington University
This article originally appeared at FrontPage Magazine, on October 09, 2007.
In a stratagem typical of the deceitful smear campaigns the left seems to favor, an obviously fake hate flyer has been posted all over the George Washington University campus with the intention of sabotaging Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week (October 22-26), and smearing its sponsors the David Horowitz Freedom Center and the Young America’s Foundation.
The flyer, which is headlined “Hate Muslims? So Do We” and masquerades as a publication by GW students now organizing Islamo Fascism Awareness Week activities, is itself a hate crime as well as a forgery. Its authors, cowering behind anonymity, are part of what has become a national movement to attack Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week. read more…
An Anti-Semitic poster from the past: apparently, anti-Semitism is accepted at American universities today.
This article originally appeared at FrontPage Magazine, on May 13, 2008.
While waiting to speak at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee last night, I was given a tour of the Student Union, the venue for my talk. The Union building also houses the offices of student clubs, funded by mandatory student fees. On the bulletin board outside the office of the Muslim Students’ Association a flyer was posted, which was part of a campaign against my appearance. It was titled “Getting to Know David Horowitz,” and featured a section headed “Who is David Whorowitz?” At the top of the page was an anti-Semitic caricature of a Jew in the classic style familiar from the Nazi posters of the 1930s, which have become ubiquitous in the Arab world. The Jew in the caricature was standing in a garbage can with the cover on his head, dressed in a Nazi uniform, with an armband marked “H” for “Horowitz,” and the caption read “Horowitz Awareness Week.” This is the central of the tropes of the Muslim Students’ Association campaign on college campuses across the country: Jews are Nazis. “Bring your white sheets and brown shirts and COME ON DOWN! Flaming crosses and Stars of David will be supplied to those who arrive early.” read more…
