![]() In 1976, Horowitz was a "founding sponsor" of James Weinstein's magazine In These Times. It is widely believed that the Panthers were responsible for her murder, a belief also held by Horowitz. ![]() In December 1974, Van Patter's body was found floating in San Francisco Harbor she had been murdered. He recommended that Newton hire Betty Van Patter as bookkeeper she was then working for Ramparts. As part of their work together, Horowitz helped raise money for, and assisted the Panthers with, the running of a school for poor children in Oakland. Horowitz later portrayed Newton as equal parts gangster, terrorist, intellectual and media celebrity. Newton, founder of the Black Panther Party. ĭuring the early 1970s, Horowitz developed a close friendship with Huey P. In January 1968, Horowitz returned to the United States, where he became co-editor of the New Left magazine Ramparts, settling in northern California. Horowitz wrote The Free World Colossus: A Critique of American Foreign Policy in the Cold War. While in London, Horowitz became a close friend of Deutscher, and wrote a biography of him. The Vietnam Solidarity Campaign organized a series of protests in London against British support for the Vietnam War. In January 1966, Horowitz, along with members of the Trotskyist International Marxist Group, formed the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign. They included Isaac Deutscher, Jean-Paul Sartre, Stokely Carmichael, Simone de Beauvoir, Vladimir Dedijer and James Baldwin. He described the tribunal's judges as formidable, world-famous and radical. Horowitz would write three decades later that he had political reservations about the tribunal and did not take part. In 1966, Ralph Schoenman persuaded Bertrand Russell to convene his war crimes tribunal to judge United States involvement in the Vietnam War. Career New Left Īfter completing his graduate degree, Horowitz lived in London during the mid 1960s and worked for the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation. Horowitz received a BA from Columbia University in 1959, majoring in English, and a master's degree in English literature at University of California, Berkeley. They left the party after Khrushchev published his report in 1956 about the crimes Stalin committed and terrorism against the Soviet population. ĭuring years of labor organizing and the Great Depression, Phil and Blanche Horowitz were long-standing members of the American Communist Party and strong supporters of Joseph Stalin. In 1940, the family moved to the Long Island City section of Queens. ![]() Horowitz's paternal grandfather lived in Mozir, a city in modern Belarus, prior to leaving for the U.S. His mother's family emigrated from Imperial Russia in the mid-19th century, and his father's family left Russia in 1905 during a time of anti-Jewish pogroms. His father taught English and his mother taught stenography. Horowitz recounted his ideological journey in a series of retrospective books, culminating with his 1996 memoir Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey.īorn in the Forest Hills neighborhood of Queens, New York City, Horowitz is the son of Jewish high school teachers Phil and Blanche Horowitz. He later rejected progressive ideas and became a defender of neoconservatism. įrom 1956 to 1975, Horowitz was an outspoken adherent of the New Left. Horowitz worked as a columnist for Salon. He and Collier have collaborated on books about cultural criticism. Horowitz wrote several books with author Peter Collier, including four on prominent 20th-century American families. Horowitz also founded the organization Students for Academic Freedom. ![]() He is a founder and president of the right-wing David Horowitz Freedom Center (DHFC) editor of the Center's website FrontPage Magazine and director of Discover the Networks, a website that tracks individuals and groups on the political left. David Joel Horowitz (born Janu) is an American conservative writer.
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