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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Great patriot and hero. May he RIP.
RIP Mr Horowitz. 🙏
Oh, gee. RIP Mr. Horowitz. Thank you for the hard work to tell the truth and help our nation.
Prayers for David and his family.
I was wondering where he went
Very sad to see.
May he rest in peace.
RIP Mr. Horowitz. We will miss him. Hope his organization is in good hands. I am a supporter.
Oops...wrong person.
Oh no
“David was raised a Marxist and was one of the leading intellectuals of the New Left movement at Berkeley in the 1960’s.”
He was a big reason that the Right started to fight back. I had no idea he was that old. I would have put him at at least 12 years younger. Ugh.
May he rest in peace.
And say “hey” to my FRiend and late FReeper “dix” when you get to Heaven, David. Dix was a fan of yours.
May he be with God.
Horowitz had the most remarkable “conversion” arc - from leading Marxist radical to leading conservative truth-teller - since Whitaker Chambers. He knew the evil of the Left from the inside and could explain it better than most. RIP.
Different David Horowitz.
Agreed—a great quote from David I have never forgotten:
“Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out.”
I walked a similar path from left to right, but he did it much better and much more powerfully. RIP, David.
Yes, it is. I have admired this man for decades.
Sad to lose such a great man.
He looked behind some great work and I know we can count on his colleagues at front page magazine to keep it up
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