David Horowitz

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David Horowitz (2011)

David Joel Horowitz (born January 10, 1939 in New York City ) is an American conservative publicist and activist . In the 1960s he was one of the protagonists of the New Left in the United States.

Life

Horowitz came from a secularized Jewish family of teachers and grew up in the New York borough of Queens . His parents were members of the United States Communist Party . He studied English Philology at Columbia University (Bachelor 1959) and English Literature at the University of California, Berkeley (Master 1961).

He then worked for the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation in London. In Great Britain he moved in left-wing intellectual circles; Among his friends was the British Marxist historian Isaac Deutscher . In 1968 he became editor of the left-wing political magazine Ramparts and made contacts with Huey Newton , a founding member of the African-American civil rights movement Black Panther Party . After the unsolved murder of an accountant from the movement, he began to distance himself from the political left.

In the 1980s he professed conservatism through political journalism . In 1988 he built the Center for the Study of Popular Culture (today: David Horowitz Freedom Center), which turns against the political left and anti-Americanism . In 1992 he founded the news magazine Heterodoxy with his companion Peter Collier . He also established the conservative online magazine FrontPage Magazine . In 2003 he installed the Students for Academic Freedom campaign . In 2004 he founded the anti-socialist platform Discover the Networks , which monitors the networks of the political left. In his 2006 book The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America , he criticized 101 scientists for their supposedly politically motivated rather than academically neutral work. He also drew up an Academic Bill of Rights . His concern was debated in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 2005 ; the majority of MPs voted for a Select Committee on Student Academic Freedom . The Temple University in Philadelphia changed in 2006 after the publication of reports by the Committee then their statutes in the direction of liberty rights for students.

He is the author of numerous political and historical books, some of which have also been translated into German. Among his works are family stories of the Rockefellers , Kennedys , Fords, and Roosevelts . He also wrote for magazines and lectured at over 300 universities. He was a guest on talk shows and news programs and a. in the programs of ABC , CNBC , CNN , C-SPAN , Fox News and MSNBC .

Horowitz is married to April Mullvain Horowitz for the fourth time. His first marriage to Elissa Horowitz had four children, including entrepreneur and investor Ben Horowitz . Horowitz dealt with the death of his daughter Sarah Rose, who died in 2008 at the age of 44, in his book A Cracking of the Heart .

Awards

  • 1978: Guggenheim grant
  • 1990: Teach Freedom Award (by US President Ronald Regan)

Fonts (selection)

  • Anatomy of our time. Capitalism and socialism in melting pot . Europa Verlag, Vienna 1964.
  • ed .: Marx and modern economics . MacGibbon & Kee, London 1968.
  • ed .: Strategies of Counterrevolution . March publishing house, Darmstadt 1969.
  • Cold War. Background of US foreign policy from Yalta to Vietnam . 2 volumes, Wagenbach, Berlin 1969.
  • Imperialism and revolution. New facts on current history . Wagenbach, Berlin 1970.
  • Big Business and Cold War . March publishing house, Frankfurt am Main 1971.
  • with Peter Collier: The Rockefellers. An American dynasty . Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1976, ISBN 3-550-07341-0 .
  • with Peter Collier: The Kennedys. American drama . Siedler, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-88680-151-9 .
  • The Fords: An American Epic . Summit Books / Simon & Schuster, New York 1987, ISBN 0-671-66951-6 .
  • with Peter Collier: The Roosevelts: An American Saga . Simon & Schuster, New York 1994, ISBN 0-684-80140-X .
  • Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey . The Free Press, New York 1997, ISBN 0-684-82793-X .
  • How to Beat the Democrats and Other Subversive Ideas . Spence Publishing, Dallas 2002, ISBN 1-890626-41-4 .
  • Uncivil Wars: The Controversy over Reparations for Slavery . Encounter Books, New York 2002, ISBN 1-893554-44-9 .
  • Left Illusions: An Intellectual Odyssey . Spence Publishing, Dallas 2003, ISBN 1-890626-51-1 .
  • with Peter Collier: The Anti-Chomsky Reader . Encounter Books, New York 2004, ISBN 1-893554-97-X .
  • The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America . Regnery Publishing, Washington, DC, 2006, ISBN 0-89526-003-4 .
  • Indoctrination U .: The Left's War Against Academic Freedom . Encounter Books, New York 2007, ISBN 1-59403-190-8 .
  • Blitz: Trump Will Smash The Left And Win . Humanix Books, New York 2020, ISBN 1-63006-138-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David Horowitz ( Memento of the original from November 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , David Horowitz Freedom Center, accessed November 23, 2013.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.horowitzfreedomcenter.org
  2. ^ Pennsylvania House of Representatives: Select Committee on Student Academic Freedom , FIRE, accessed November 23, 2013.
  3. ^ David Horowitz , Intercollegiate Studies Institute , accessed November 23, 2013.
  4. ↑ Stacey Palevsky: Teacher, writer, human rights activist dies unexpectedly at 44 . In: jweekly.com of April 10, 2008.
  5. ↑ Sonny Bunch: David Horowitz honors his daughter's life . In: washingtontimes.com of November 25, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Horowitz, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horowitz, David Joel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American publicist and activist
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City