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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RIP David. You will be missed and not forgotten.
Horowitz’s seminal book Radical Son is a Must Read.
Below is a great article on the life and work of David Horowitz
Frontpage Magazine is also amazing.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/260760/life-and-work-david-horowitz-jamie-glazov
RIP
May he rest in peace.
Oh, this is awful to hear. He was a liberal at first but he woke up. God rest his soul and may his family and friends find peace.
His Radical Son is well worth reading.
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Good man, one of the great conversion stories. I met him once, briefly. He was in the building; I had one of his books, I think his autobiography, was on my shelf, and I invited myself to stroll in and get it signed. I don’t recall what we chatted about, but it was brief. Time does fly when you are busy fighting communists, socialists, and democrats.
Yes. I know. That’s why I was responding to someone else regarding his link. Follow along...
You referred me to his “Radical Son” book a few years back. Thank you for that!
That’s a huge loss for anti-leftists everywhere.
A patriot that will be remembered. RIP
TRU DAT !
A brilliant man, and a gracious, gentle man. Was privileged to meet him at my first ever CPAC some years ago. His writings were always inspiring spurs to intelligent, thoughtful action. He mentored so many other conservative writers and speakers. We have lost a giant.
The best quote !
He mellowed a lot. Went from a fire breather to a very cerebral and patient debater who could make a fool of an opponent without raising his voice. He became one of the true greats. Was an honor to meet him. Rest in peace, brother.
I was wondering where he went
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Can you share with us where he went? Can you
share with us heaven, hell, or some where in
outer space?
‘Radical Son’ is on level with ‘Witness’ .
I had no idea he was 86. We’ve lost a great American. RIP
And another:
“The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.”
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