Editing David Horowitz (section)

{{Short description|American conservative writer and activist (1939–2025)}}
{{Other people|David Horowitz}}
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{{Infobox writer
| name        = David Horowitz
| image       = David Horowitz by Gage Skidmore.jpg
| caption     = Horowitz in 2011
| birth_name  = David Joel Horowitz
| birth_date  = {{birth date|1939|01|10}}
| birth_place = New York City, U.S.
| death_date  = {{death date and age|2025|04|29|1939|01|10}}
| death_place = [[Colorado]], U.S.
| occupation  = [[Conservatism in the United States|Conservative]] activist and writer
| education   = [[Columbia University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br />[[University of California, Berkeley]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]])
| spouse      = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|Elissa Krauthamer|1959|1978|end=div}}
* {{marriage|Sam Moorman|1984|1985|end=div}}
* {{marriage|Shay Marlowe|1990|1995|end=div}}
* {{marriage|April Mullvain|1998}}}}
| children    = 4, including [[Ben Horowitz|Ben]]
}}

'''David Joel Horowitz''' (January 10, 1939 – April 29, 2025) was an American [[conservatism in the United States|conservative]] writer and activist. He was a founder and president of the [[David Horowitz Freedom Center]] (DHFC); editor of the Center's website ''[[FrontPage Magazine]]''; and director of [[Discover the Networks]], a website that tracks individuals and groups on the [[left-wing politics|political left]]. Horowitz also founded the organization [[Students for Academic Freedom]].

Horowitz wrote several books with author [[Peter Collier (writer)|Peter Collier]], including four on prominent 20th-century American families. He and Collier collaborated on books about cultural criticism. Horowitz worked as a columnist for ''[[Salon.com|Salon]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2007-01-03 |title=Salon.com News {{!}} Who's afraid of the big, bad Horowitz? |url=http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2001/03/09/horowitz/ |access-date=2022-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070103215150/http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2001/03/09/horowitz/ |archive-date=January 3, 2007}}</ref>

From 1956 to 1975, Horowitz was an outspoken adherent of the [[New Left]]. He later rejected [[Progressivism|progressive]] ideas and became a defender of [[neoconservatism]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2001/may/30/socialsciences.highereducation|title=Interview: neo-conservative, David Horowitz|last=Campbell|first=Duncan|date=2001-05-30|work=The Guardian|access-date=2018-12-07|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> Horowitz recounted his ideological journey in a series of retrospective books, culminating with his 1996 memoir ''Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey''.