David Horowitz: Turning the University Around

The Retreat in Santa Barbara 2007 David Horowitz Freedom Center

David Horowitz was one of the founders of the New Left in the 1960s and the editor of its most influential magazine, Ramparts. He is the author, with Peter Collier, of a number of bestselling dynastic biographies on the Rockefellers, the Kennedys, the Fords, and the Roosevelts. With Collier he also wrote Destructive Generation (1989), a chronicle of their break with the 1960s Left, that has been compared to Whittaker Chambers' Witness and other classic works documenting a break from totalitarianism.

Among Horowitz's more recent books are: Radical Son (1996), a memoir tracing his odyssey from "red-diaper baby" to conservative activist that George Gilder described as "the first great autobiography of his generation"; Uncivil Wars (2002), which chronicles his crusade against intolerance and racial McCarthyism on college campuses; Left Illusions (2003), a one-volume course on the history of our time from the Cold War to the war on terror; Unholy Alliance (2004), which examines the pact between radical Islam and the American Left; and The Professors: the 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America (2006), which reveals a shocking and perverse culture of academics who are poisoning the minds of today's college students. Horowitz is also the author of The Politics of Bad Faith, How to Beat the Democrats, and The Art of Political War. The latter was described by White House political strategist Karl Rove as "the perfect guide to winning on the political battlefield."

In 1988, Horowitz created the Center for the Study of Popular Culture (CSPC) -- renamed the David Horowitz Freedom Center (DHFC) in July 2006 -- to institutionalize his campaigns against the Left and its anti-Americanism. The DHFC's mission is to defend the principles of individual freedom, the rule of law, private property, and limited government. It further seeks to defend free societies in the war against their enemies, and to reestablish academic freedom in American schools. The DHFC is supported by 40,000 contributors and publishes FrontPageMagazine.com, an online magazine featuring articles on "the war at home and abroad," which receives approximately a million visitors per month. Another DHFC website, DiscoverTheNetworks.org, is an encyclopedia of the political Left and its networks.

In 2003, Horowitz launched an academic freedom campaign to return the American university to traditional principles of open inquiry and to halt indoctrination in the classroom. To further these goals he devised an Academic Bill of Rights to protect students from abusive professors. In the same year Horowitz founded Students for Academic Freedom (SAF), which now has chapters on 200 college campuses. Asserting that, "You can't get a good education if they're only telling you half the story," Horowitz called for inquiries into political bias in the hiring of faculty and the appointment of commencement speakers.

Since its inception in July of 2003, SAF has developed into the most powerful movement in contemporary higher education. It is exclusively dedicated to the following goals: (a) To promote intellectual diversity on campus; (b) To defend the right of students to be treated with respect by faculty and administrators, regardless of their political or religious beliefs; (c) To promote fairness, civility and inclusion in student affairs; and (d) To secure the adoption of the "Academic Bill of Rights" as official university policy.

David Horowitz has spoken at over 300 colleges and universities and continues to visit more than 30 campuses a year. He has appeared on Nightline, Crossfire, Today, Hannity and Colmes, the O'Reilly Factor, Good Morning America, C-SPAN, CNBC, Fox News Channel and MSNBC. He gives hundreds of interviews yearly on radio and television.

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[400lbGuerrilla]

Churchill and Ayers are just the tip of the iceberg. There's probably thousands of professors just like them. Hell, i can remember a dozen lefty profs in college, and that was 18 years ago. Hate to see the spawn of their leftist spooge these days.

[321lawc]

@bapyou Another page right out of Orwell. It's hilarious how much liberalism has destroyed California. Enjoy your societal collapse moron.

[PatrickHenryNation]

@400lbGuerrilla as a grad student in a CUNY school I can tell you that leftist spooge has morphed into a veritable army of brownshirts.

[PatrickHenryNation]

@GreenmeGo but you don't know why...

[GreenmeGo]

I strongly disagree with you.

[bapyou]

@Texfield91 Huh? Can you write coherent sentence please?

Since you weren't educated at a left-wing conspiracy school, you should be able to write a coherent sentence using standard English. Unless Spanish is your first language. That's very common nowadays. As a left-wing conspirator, I won't judge you for it. Just try writing a decent sentence, OK?

Cheers.

White power!

[Texfield91]

@bapyou HEY! Hey, Your Doucheness! he just said it is happening in universities!

[DrBakshandeh]

@400lbGuerrilla they all disgust me barf

[bapyou]

@danhaw1213 I'm the only one left out of the leftist conspiracy? How do you know? Can you put me in touch wioth those who are in on it? Really! I'd like to meet them! You seem to know what you're talking about. I don't have a clue where to look for the left-wing conspirators. Maybe Horrorwitz can tell us where to look. What do you think? Should I write him an email? "Hey Dave! I get your point but, where the fuck is this conspiracy you're talkng about? Huh Dave? I'd like to join it, OK?"