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Longtime Communist activist turned conservative and author of such books as "Destructive Generation," "Radical Son," "Hating Whitey and Other Progressive Causes," "Uncivil Wars: The Controversy Over Reparations for Slavery," "Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left," "The Anti-Chomsky Reader," "Left Illusions: An Intellectual Odyssey" and "The Politics of Bad Faith." He was also the editor of the conservative online magazine FrontPage.com and the president of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture.

He was a supporter of Students for Academic Freedom and the author (and primary backer) of the Academic Bill of Rights, both of which seek to protect the rights of conservative students to voice their opinions on campus free of harrassment by faculty and fellow student activists and to promote a more ideologically balanced and diverse academic environment.

Was attacked with pie in the face by left-wing activists during a lecture given at Butler University. Said Horowitz afterward, "There's a wave of violence on college campuses, committed by what I'd call fascists opposing conservatives. It's one step from that to injury." The incident, which happened just days after similar incidents occurred during speeches given by conservative commentators Pat Buchanan (at West Michigan University) and Bill Kristol (at Earlham College, also in Indiana), was denounced as "deplorable" by Butler University spokesman Marc Allan.

Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, vol. 138, pages 230-233. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.

Children: Jonathan, Sarah, Benjamin, Anne.

Received a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University in 1959, majoring in English.

Received a master's degree in English literature at University of California, Berkeley.

In 2005 he launched Discover the Networks.

His son Ben is a technology entrepreneur, investor, and co-founder, along with Marc Andreessen, of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

After completing his graduate degree, Horowitz lived in London during the mid 1960s and worked for the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation. He identified as a Marxist intellectual.

In 1976 he was a "founding sponsor" of James Weinstein's magazine In These Times.

Parents were longstanding members of the Communist Party, strong supporters of Joseoh Stalin and Jewish high school teachers Phil Horowitz and Blanche Brown. His father taught English and his mother taught stenography. They were married in September 1935.