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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During the election season, he had a flyer about his Dem rival, Helen Gahagan Douglas ( Melvyn Douglas' wife ), PRINTED ON PINK PAPER!
He did NOT need to say a word, back then, EVERYONE understood that he was calling her a damned PINKO ( Commie Symp, which she and her husband WERE! ) and he was elected.
And THAT was the very beginning of the Dem/lefties WAR ON NIXON!
He and JFK worked hard, in the Senate, to get Hiss put where he belonged...IN JAIL!
NOBODY ever went after JFK for doing the same thing!
Trust me, I really DO know a LOT about Mr. Nixon, whom I became interested in, at the tender age of 9 and followed the news about him ever since then.
Yes, I come from a politically involved family, so there's that AND from the third grade onwards ( but this was an election year, when I was in the 4th grade ), we had a weekly CURRENT EVENTS class section and EVERYONE had better be interested AND know what was going on, back then.
Ah...I see a similarity between us...I was quite aware of politics from about the same age...I recall being curious about Goldwater in the 1964 election, and really tuned in when Nixon ran in 1968. I recall having very specific opinions about that one...
I suppose, in my case, that it was also the fact that way back then, we were also expected, on age/grade appropriate levels to sort of know, as young as the first grade ( the Korean War was raging when I was that age and yes, we DID know a bit a bout it ) what was happening in the adult world.
It was good to see James Dobson also. I really appreciated his commentary about talking with Jesse Jackson and JJ's unwillingness to discuss abortion which is far more prevalent within the black community.
Finally completed reading Jamie Glasov's lengthy column on DH's life. Time well spent - thnx for the link. I've been a frequent reader of FPM for 20+ years. It appears to be in good hands.
Rest in peace David Horowitz. You will be missed.
He knew the left from the inside and revealed what they were to the world.
“A leftist lies awake in bed at night thinking up ways to destroy America.”
Sounds tragic but very probable.
Amen to that! — all of it!
Great loss. Loved his articles. Will miss him like Rush.
This is truly saddening.
Very often the best guys we got are former marxists.
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