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Dr. David Horowitz, born in Forest Hills, New York, on January 10,1939, is a Jewish-American social activist and writer. He was prominent in the American New Left movement but today holds staunchly right-wing views.Despite sharing similar opinions, he is not to be confused with fellow author David Horovitz.
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Early life
His parents Phil and Blanche Horowitz were schoolteachers in Sunnyside Gardens, Queens, New York City. They raised him in a strict Stalinist environment. After Nikita Khrushchev's secret report to the 20th Party Congress on Joseph Stalin's crimes became publicly known, Horowitz helped form the Maoist movement in the United States—a break with the earlier Communist Party USA. Moving to California, Horowitz became a well-known Marxist supporter of the various leftist causes of the 1960s and 1970s. He worked as a professor of literature and authored many books on Marxian interpretations of history, as well as serving as an editor of the radical newspaper Ramparts. Eventually he started working for the Black Panthers and became a close confidant of acting Party Leader Elaine Brown.
As the years went on however, Horowitz became very disillusioned with some of the tactics of the American Left, especially after one of his close friends, Betty Van Patter, was murdered in 1974. Horowitz attributes her murder to the Panthers; no one was charged or arrested, and the case remains unsolved.
Horowitz's thinking gradually became more conservative, and today he has come full circle and is now regarded as a leading right wing advocate. Among the key events he credits with his intellectual transformation were the AIDS crisis in San Francisco and his experiences in Sandinista-ruled Nicaragua where he worked for the US government providing tactical advice to anti-Sandinista labor unions, politicians and journalists.
Horowitz's transition from a left-wing to a right-wing position is said to be shared in common with many other neoconservatives. Horowitz for his part strongly rejects the "neoconservative" label.
Horowitz, along with some Republican leaders, has been promoting his "Academic Bill of Rights", an eight-point manifesto that seeks to eliminate political bias in university hiring and grading. Horowitz claims that liberal bias in universities amounts to indoctrination and charges that conservatives and particularly Republicans are systematically excluded from faculties.
Although the ABoR is commonly defended by appeal to the AAUP's 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure, its construal of that document has been denounced by the AAUP as "a grave threat to fundamental principles of academic freedom". Others have criticized the "simplistic worldview, flawed statistics, and political irresponsibility" behind the Bill.
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Books
He has written many books and pamphlets, including The Free World Colossus: A Critique of American Foreign Policy in the Cold War (1971), ' (1998 ISBN 0684840057), his autobiography; ' (2002 ISBN 1893554449); Hating Whitey; The Politics of Bad Faith and Left Illusions: An Intellectual Odyssey (2003 ISBN 1890626511). Together with Peter Collier he wrote several best-selling biographies of prominent American families:Quotes
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