Horowitz, an important American writer and thinker since the 1960s, has been called "the Left's most brilliant and articulate nemesis." He is the author of several books, most recently The Professors, profiles of one hundred radical academics and their impact on higher education. He founded the Center for the Study of Popular Culture in 1988 (now called, David Horowitz Freedom Center) with the intention of establishing a conservative presence in Hollywood and showing how popular culture had become a political battleground. Under his leadership over the next decade, CSPC attracted 50,000 contributing supporters and established programs such as The Wednesday Morning Club, a lunch forum that provides a platform in the entertainment and media industry for conservative speakers and ideas; The Individual Rights Foundation, an organization that litigates high-profile conservative and libertarian public interest cases; and Students for Academic Freedom, a national coalition of student organizations with chapters on 160 campuses whose goal is to end political abuse of the university and restore its academic integrity.