Editing David Horowitz (section)

===Rightward evolution===
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Following this period, Horowitz rejected [[Karl Marx|Marx]] and socialism, but kept quiet about his changing politics for nearly a decade.

In early 1985, Horowitz and Collier, who also became a political conservative, wrote an article for ''[[The Washington Post|The Washington Post Magazine]]'' titled "Lefties for [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]]", later retitled as "Goodbye to All That". The article explained their change of views and recent decision to vote for a second term for Republican President Ronald Reagan.<ref>{{cite web|author1=Horowitz, David|author2=Collier, Peter|title=Lefties for Reagan|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/1985/03/17/lefties-for-reagan/c3d58778-8ec9-4463-9252-3a032e078d36/|website=Washington Post Magazine|pages=8–?|date=March 17, 1985}}</ref>{{sfn|Horowitz|2011|p=356–57}}<ref>{{Cite book|url={{google books |plainurl=y |id=gGEJDAAAQBAJ|page=155}}|title=The Black Book of the American Left: The Collected Conservative Writings of David Horowitz|last=Horowitz|first=David|date=2016-04-05|publisher=Encounter Books|isbn=978-1-59403-870-9|pages=155|language=en}}</ref> In 1986, Horowitz published "Why I Am No Longer a Leftist" in ''[[The Village Voice]]''.<ref name="nord2">{{cite news|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/article/368496/witness-part-ii-jay-nordlinger|title=A Witness, Part II: The meaning of David Horowitz|author=Nordlinger, Jay|newspaper=National Review Online|date=January 15, 2014}}</ref>

In 1987, Horowitz co-hosted a "Second Thoughts Conference" in Washington, D.C., described by [[Sidney Blumenthal]] in ''The Washington Post'' as his "coming out" as a conservative.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Blumenthal |first1=Sidney |title=Thunder on the New Right {{!}} A conference where the converted don't quite reach their goal |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1987/10/19/thunder-on-the-new-right-a-conference-where-the-converted-dont-quite-reach-their-goal/d3d1f1fa-bc89-41fa-9c7f-3ae48e90b3f9/ |access-date=26 December 2023 |newspaper=Washington Post |date=19 October 1987}}</ref>

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In May 1989, Horowitz, [[Ronald Radosh]], and Collier attended a conference in [[Kraków]] calling for the end of Communism.{{sfn|Horowitz|2011|p=388}} After marching with Polish dissidents in an anti-regime protest, Horowitz spoke about his changing thoughts and why he believed that socialism could not create their future. He said his dream was for the people of Poland to be free.{{sfn|Horowitz|2011|p=391}}

In 1992, Horowitz and Collier founded ''[[David Horowitz Freedom Center#Heterodoxy magazine|Heterodoxy]],'' a monthly magazine focused on exposing what it described as excessive [[political correctness]] on United States college and university campuses. It was "meant to have the feel of a [[samizdat]] publication inside the [[gulag]] of the PC [politically correct] university". The tabloid was directed at university students, whom Horowitz viewed as indoctrinated by the entrenched Left.<ref>[https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/david-horowitz David Horowitz profile], splcenter.org; accessed August 10, 2016.</ref> In ''Radical Son'', he wrote that universities were no longer effective in presenting both sides of political arguments. He stated that left-wing professors had created an atmosphere of political "terror" on campuses.{{sfn|Horowitz|2011|p=405–06}}

In a 2001 column in ''[[Salon.com|Salon]]''<ref name="bad"/> he described his opposition to [[reparations for slavery]], calling it racism against blacks, as it defined them only in terms of their descent from slaves. He argued that applying labels like "descendants of [[slavery|slaves]]" to blacks was damaging and would serve to [[racial segregation|segregate]] them from mainstream society. In the same year during [[Black History Month]], Horowitz attempted to purchase advertising space in several American university student publications to express his opposition to reparations.<ref name="bad" /> Many student papers refused to sell him ad space; at some schools, papers that carried his ads were stolen or destroyed.<ref name="bad">{{cite news|url=https://www.salon.com/2001/03/09/horowitz_24/|title=Who's afraid of the big, bad Horowitz?|access-date=February 1, 2007|first=Joan|last=Walsh|date=March 9, 2001|work=Salon.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070103215150/http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2001/03/09/horowitz/|archive-date=January 3, 2007|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Joan Walsh said the furor had given Horowitz an overwhelming amount of free publicity.<ref name="bad" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.projo.com/words/brown2.htm|title=Embattled editors get Herald out at Brown|access-date=February 1, 2007|first=Si|last=Rosenbaum|date=March 18, 2001|publisher=The Providence Journal Company}}</ref>

In 2005, Horowitz launched [[Discover the Networks]].

Horowitz appeared in ''Occupy Unmasked'', a 2012 documentary portraying the [[Occupy Wall Street]] movement as a sinister organization formed to violently destroy the American government.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/2012-republican-convention-occupy-screening-protest-michael-moore-367096|title=2012 Republican Convention: 'Occupy' Screening Brings Cheers, Protests|last1=Bond|first1=Paul|date=August 30, 2012|work=hollywoodreporter.com|publisher=hollywood reporter|access-date=September 25, 2012}}</ref>

In 2018, Horowitz attracted many critical comments by attacking the [[Equal Justice Initiative]]'s new [[National Memorial for Peace and Justice]], calling it "a real racist project"<ref>{{cite magazine
|title=Anti-Muslim figurehead and funder David Horowitz minimizes terrors of lynching
|author=Hatewatch Staff
|url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/04/12/anti-muslim-figurehead-and-funder-david-horowitz-minimizes-terrors-lynching
|website=SPLC Hatewatch
|publisher=[[Southern Poverty Law Center]]
|access-date=June 9, 2018
|date=April 12, 2018}}</ref> showing "anti-white racism".<ref name=Twitter /> "Lynchings were bad but they weren't mainly about whites yanking blacks off the streets and stringing them up".<ref name=Twitter>{{cite web
|title=Tweet April 9, 2018 6:12 PM
|first=David
|last=Horowitz
|publisher=Twitter
|date=April 9, 2018
|access-date=June 10, 2018
|url=https://twitter.com/horowitz39/status/983512961816788992
|archive-url=https://archive.today/20180410184948/https://twitter.com/horowitz39/status/983512961816788992
|url-status=dead
|archive-date=April 10, 2018
}}</ref> "A third of the victims of lynchings were white. How many of them do you think this memorial features {{sic}}."<ref>{{cite web
|title=Tweet April 8, 2018 4:52 PM
|first=David
|last=Horowitz
|publisher=Twitter
|date=April 8, 2018
|access-date=June 10, 2018
|url=https://twitter.com/horowitz39/status/983130398040322048
|archive-url=https://archive.today/20180410185325/https://twitter.com/horowitz39/status/983130398040322048
|url-status=dead
|archive-date=April 10, 2018
}}</ref>