By David Horowitz This article first appeared in The Village Voice, September 30, 1986. My life as a leftist began with a May Day Parade in 1948, when I was nine years old, and lasted for more than twenty-five years until December 1974, when a mur- der committed by my political comrades brought my radical […]
By David Horowitz January 8, 1998 FrontpageMagazine.com When a man begins his review of your life by calling you a “demented lunatic,” as Paul Berman does in his bizarre comments on my autobiography Radical Son, in the Winter issue of the socialist magazine Dissent, the expectation that he will misrepresent you in ways both small […]
By David Horowitz May 22, 1998 FrontPageMagazine.com In the autumn after my mother died, I visited the cemetery where I had buried her alongside my father in the Long Island earth. The soil on her grave was grown with grass and had begun to be almost indistinguishable from his, joining them again, a couple in […]
By Bernard Chapin August 14, 2007 This year marks the tenth anniversary of David Horowitz’s autobiography, Radical Son. A reminder of what it accomplished therefore seems in order. In a survey conducted by Insight Magazine, which asked respondents to name the best conservative books, Radical Son ranked second after Barry Goldwater’s Conscience of a Conservative. Perhaps […]