Horowitz is an intellectual and former leftist from a family like Obama's, Axelrod's, etc. Your problem with him is he turned on the left after Black Panther thugs murdered a friend of his. But when he writes about the left he KNOWS WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT FIRSTHAND. He knows the left better than YOU!
In the early 1960s, Horowitz lived in London as an employee of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation. [8] He regarded himself as a serious Marxist intellectual. In 1966, Ralph Schoenman persuaded Bertrand Russell to convene a war crimes tribunal to judge American involvement in the Vietnam War. [9] Horowitz developed serious reservations about the process when the tribunal's judges, who included Isaac Deutscher, Jean-Paul Sartre, Stokely Carmichael, Simone de Beauvoir, James Baldwin, and Vladimir Dedijer, degenerated into a feuding rabble.
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See, he was once the kind of person you idolize.
In January 1968, Horowitz returned to the United States and became editor of the New Left magazine, Ramparts.
During the early 1970s, Horowitz developed a close friendship with Black Panther Party founder Huey P. Newton. In Horowitz's subsequent writings, Newton is depicted as equal parts gangster, terrorist, intellectual, and media celebrity.
As part of their work together, Horowitz helped raised money for Newton and assisted with the running of a school for the children of Party members. He further recommended that Newton hire a bookkeeper, Betty Van Patter, who was then working for Ramparts. In December 1974, Van Patter's murdered body was found floating in San Francisco Harbor. [13] Horowitz, who was certain that the Panthers were responsible, had his suspicions confirmed by several Party members. He has cited that experience as the catalyst which led him to reject Marxism completely.
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Among other things, he's a prolific writer:
Books and other publications[ edit]- Student: The Political Activities of the Berkeley Students (New York: Ballantine Books, 1962)
- Marx and Modern Economics, edited, (1968)
- Corporations and the Cold War (editor) (New York: Monthly Review, 1969)
- Sinews of Empire Ramparts, October 1969, pp. 32–42
- Empire and Revolution: A Radical Interpretation of Contemporary History (1969) ISBN 0-394-70856-3
- Corporations and the Cold War, edited, and with introduction (1970) ISBN 0-85345-160-5
- The Free World Colossus: A Critique of American Foreign Policy in the Cold War (1971) ISBN 0-8090-0107-1
- The First Frontier: The Indian Wars and America's Origins, 1607-1776 (1978) ISBN 0-671-22534-0
- Second Thoughts: Former Radicals Look Back at the Sixties, ed. by Peter Collier and David Horowitz (Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1989) ISBN 0-8191-7148-4
- Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the '60s, by Peter Collier and David Horowitz (New York: Summit Books/Simon & Schuster, 1989) ISBN 0-671-66752-1
- Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey (New York: The Free Press, 1997) autobiography ISBN 0-684-82793-X
- The Race Card: White Guilt, Black Resentment, and the Assault on Truth and Justice (Prima Lifestyles, 1997) ISBN 0-7615-0942-9
- Hating Whitey: and Other Progressive Causes (Spence Publishing, 1999) ISBN 1-890626-21-X
- The Politics of Bad Faith: The Radical Assault on America’s Future (Free Press, 2000) ISBN 0-684-85679-4
- The Art of Political War And Other Radical Pursuits (Spence Publishing, 2000) ISBN 1-890626-28-7
- How to Beat the Democrats and Other Subversive Ideas (Spence Publishing, 2002) ISBN 1-890626-41-4
- Uncivil Wars: The Controversy Over Reparations For Slavery (2002) ISBN 1-893554-44-9
- Left Illusions: An Intellectual Odyssey (Spence Publishing, 2003) ISBN 1-890626-51-1
- Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left ( Regnery Publishing, 2004) ISBN 0-89526-076-X
- The Anti-Chomsky Reader with Peter Collier ( Encounter Books, 2004) ISBN 1-893554-97-X
- The End Of Time (2005) ISBN 1-59403-080-4
- The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America ( Regnery Publishing, 2006) ISBN 0-89526-003-4
- Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party (Thomas Nelson Books, 2007) ISBN 1-59555-103-4
- Indoctrination U:The Left's War Against Academic Freedom ( Encounter Books, 2007) ISBN 1-59403-190-8
- Cracking of the Heart. Regnery Press. October 26, 2009. ISBN 978-1-59698-103-4.
Histories[ edit](co-authored with Peter Collier)
- The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1976) ISBN 0-03-008371-0
- The Kennedys: An American Drama (New York: Summit Books/Simon & Schuster, 1985) ISBN 0-671-44793-9
- The Fords: An American Epic (New York: Summit Books/Simon & Schuster, 1987) ISBN 0-671-66951-6
- The Roosevelts: An American Saga (1994)
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