Somewhere in past readings about David Horowitz, who was ethnically Jewish, he said that he had been an atheist but was then agnostic. I hope that he found his way back to Judaism, or even Christianity.
Posted on 04/29/2025 3:50:25 PM PDT by Beave Meister
On behalf of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, we are very saddened to announce the passing of the Center’s founder, David Horowitz. After a lengthy battle with cancer, David passed yesterday at the age of 86.
The Freedom Center’s founder and guiding force was a relentless conservative warrior who survived a previous brush with death (chronicled in his book Mortality and Faith), confrontations with the Black Panthers, campus radicals, government investigations, death threats, and hate campaigns, some led by his former friends and allies, without ever considering giving up or letting up. Nothing short of the end that comes for us all could silence his voice. He continued writing, working, and steering the Center to the very last; his final article, “The Biggest Lie of All,” appeared earlier this month.
Although he was a giant in the conservative liberty movement for over 40 years, David was raised a Marxist and was one of the leading intellectuals of the New Left movement at Berkeley in the 1960’s. But David, along with his writing partner and Freedom Center co-founder Peter Collier, eventually had a political epiphany and joined the side of freedom in the early 1980‘s. They committed the second half of their lives and work warning Americans of the dangers of the Progressives whose intellectual roots and totalitarian aims they understood better than many Leftists themselves.
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My goodness. My posts to you are full of spelling errors.
I’m exhaused...been painting my house for the last three weeks (had a furnace malfunction which filled my house with soot).
In between music jobs.
I could hardly play the bass guitar today as I am SO TIRED.
“Horowitz was “mugged” by the Left when a woman he worked with (their accountant) was raped and murdered by the Black Panthers who were suspicious of her and thought she knew too much and might squeal on them.
So they murdered her and raped her to make it look like a random rape.”
I read that story in one of his books and heard it when he was a guest on the Barry Farber show one night. This was likely back in the 70’s.
Somewhere in past readings about David Horowitz, who was ethnically Jewish, he said that he had been an atheist but was then agnostic. I hope that he found his way back to Judaism, or even Christianity.
Isn’t that a great thing?
Heh, I so hero-worshipped my dad my whole life. When I was in the third grade, I resolved to learn how to write in block letters exactly as he did, and when I was nine, I would go across the street from our quarters in Yokosuka, Japan to follow him around at work, and I tried to learn to walk just like him, making my feet clack on the polished linoleum floors exactly as his did!
I owe much of my success in life to emulation of his work ethic, which was phenomenal, and his understanding of the value of the chain of command.
And my mom-I owe much of my happiness in life to her upbringing. She taught me how to be a human being. A flawed one, just as she was (as we all are) but...a human being with a strong moral foundation with the ability to know right from wrong.
Sigh. They have both been gone now (and are buried together in Arlington) for nearly twenty years. How I miss them. I found a tape of my father giving a Memorial Day speech in our home town, and hearing his deep, masculine voice again brought tears to my eyes. Heck, it is making me choke up now.
And my mom? I made damn sure, while she was alive, to set up a camera and interview her for about an hour, to get her to tell me all about her life.
It was just awesome. She got all dolled up, put on her favorite classy clothing and makeup. (On my Freep Page, that picture of her was that day. She knew how to dress. And she knew how to present herself. I just love that picture of her.)
How she met my dad. What it was like growing up in the depression. I made a wonderful video from that when she passed on.
Sigh. They were both flawed people and flawed parents, but their flaws make them in my mind even more remarkable, because that is the ordinary human condition. We are all flawed. But they did their best, and it was good.
How I miss them both.
But I Thank God for them. So many people never had such luck.
You know...I didn’t notice a single one of them. Not one. It is the content of them that captured my attention, FRiend.
Get some rest, FRiend! I am going now. At my age, I sure do enjoy my sleep...:)
I am retiring in a month, and of all things, not having to get up at 4:30 AM is the one thing I am absolutely going to treasure! (especially since I am a night owl, and I went to bed last night at 1:30 AM...I had a triple expresso at work this morning, I was dragging so badly!)
Yes, it WAS "revolution" of sort; a cultural one, heavily influenced by stinking COMMIE doctrine.
In his latter years he was. In his early years he was a Marxist who supported The Black Panthers.
For many people, the late Sixties and into the Seventies were a dark and gritty time. Roads full of rusted cars. Inflation. No gasoline. Everything going to Hell in a hand basket.
But it never was for me. I was in the prime of my life, and I just surfed it, doing the best I could, where I could.
But that dark and gritty time sure did come through in his book as he went through that crisis of his life.
He had to deal with all those things from rusted cars to economic difficulty, and on top of that, his intellectual and ideological underpinnings he had spent his life building on top of began to give way on the shifting sand under his very feet.
That must have been very difficult.
RIP David Horowitz. Met him once at CPAC... a polite, erudite, eloquent conservative champion.
Come on. I was wondering why I haven’t read or seen him in a while.
It was in English.
“Radical Son” was an important first step for me to start understanding the left. I subscribed to Heterodoxy for a long time. Limbaugh came along and completed my understanding of the left. God bless Horowitz and Limbaugh.
What ARE you talking about? America under Nixon?
WHERE?
David Horowitz was a vital voice in the fight against political correctness and the real intent of the left. Because of warriors like him, we can look back and see that when the left was saying seemingly lofty things like “I don’t agree with you, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it” and “If you don’t like the music, don’t ban it just change the station. If you don’t like the book, don’t ban it just choose another” were empty words that only pertained to their right to say it and their music and their books.
RIP, David.
I was talking about 1973 specifically with no gas...yes. America under Nixon. (and 1978 under Carter)
And I liked Nixon, even in spite of his disasters he was responsible for such as the EPA and Price Controls. (I don’t blame him for what China is today)
I will always salute Nixon for his Linebacker II bombing campaign over Hanoi and the mining of Haiphong Harbor. Should have done those things in 1966, not 1972.
That’s beautiful!
Happily, some of those “Red Diaper Babies” saw the light, and became powerful voices for Conservatism.
Thank you for posting the link to that comprehensive biography of Horowitz's life's work. I remember being gobsmacked within the first couple of chapters of Radical Son—it literally changed my mind.
Horowitz was so far ahead of his time, we still haven't caught up. May God bless his soul.
Apparently not a convert to Christianity; but he certainly appreciated the role of Judeo-Christianity in the foundation of the United States. Here is a 25-minute video of James Dobson interviewing David Horowitz about Horowitz's book, Dark Agenda: The War to Destroy Christian America.
Dark Agenda: The War to Destroy Christian America - Part 1 with Guest David Horowitz
So true!
Dark Agenda: The War to Destroy Christian America - Part 2 with Guest David Horowitz
Horowitz affirms that he is an agnostic, not atheist, and neither Christian nor observant Jew; yet by intellect and logic he sees that the America we once knew and our Constitution could not exist without the values derived from the Bible.
He goes on to explain the appeal of Donald Trump and why he is so threatening to the left; and makes a prediction (it's been years since this interview first took place) that exactly pinpoints what the left is now doing to Trump since his second victory.
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