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
For many Washington liberals, terrorism was not the instrument of political fanatics and evil men, but was the product of social conditions - poverty, racism and oppression - for which the Western democracies, including Israel were always ultimately to blame.
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.
Israel is the canary in the mine. What happens to Israel will eventually happen to America itself.
The incidence of memory is like light from dead stars whose influence lingers long after the events themselves.
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.
It is the human wish to be told lies that keep us as primitive morally and socially as we are. I am persuaded that a lie grounded in human desire is too powerful for mere reason to kill.
The issue here isn't whether every student is brainwashed, it's whether it is appropriate.
My parents, who were Communists, always pretended to be American patriots. You can always convince yourself you are: 'I love America, I just want it to be perfect, which it will be when it becomes a Soviet Communist state'. When the left called for 'liberation' what it really wanted was to erase the human slate and begin again. Like everybody else, I see things that need to be improved. I just am mindful of the fact that they can be made a lot worse.
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.
There can be no peace with someone who wants to kill you.
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.
In politics intentions count for nothing; actions are what matter.