David Horowitz
David Horowitz
David Joel Horowitzis an American conservative writer based in Southern California. He is a founder and current president of the think tank the David Horowitz Freedom Center; editor of the Center's publication, FrontPage Magazine; and director of Discover the Networks, a website that tracks individuals and groups on the political left. Horowitz founded the organization Students for Academic Freedom to oppose political correctness and leftist orientation in academia...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth10 January 1939
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits.
If you have to invoke a distant past to justify a present grievance, the case for the grievance is already undermined.
The incidence of memory is like light from dead stars whose influence lingers long after the events themselves.
If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.
There can be no peace with someone who wants to kill you.
Politics is about winning. If you don?t win, you don?t get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit the battle out.
In Washington, of course, evading responsibility is an art form, so it is not always easy to tell who's responsible for which mess.
The issue here isn't whether every student is brainwashed, it's whether it is appropriate.
Not even Sen. [Joseph] McCarthy was able to repress ideas he opposed as effectively as Harvard's hiring committees have suppressed the conservative viewpoints they despise and fear.
Israel is the canary in the mine. What happens to Israel will eventually happen to America itself.
When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves.
I often wonder what my life would be like without the use of a library. Throughout my education and career, public and private libraries have been not only the key to much of the knowledge I have acquired, but also have given me a direction within my profession. The best thing about the library is that it is available not only to me, but to everyone. It does not discriminate.
A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.
If blacks are oppressed in America, why isn’t there a black exodus?