David Horowitz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

David Horowitz

Neoconservative activist, writer

Date of Birth: 10-Jan-1939

Place of Birth: Forest Hills, New York, United States

Profession: journalist, non-fiction writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

David Joel Horowitz (born January 10, 1939) is an American conservative writer.
He is a founder and president of the think tank the David Horowitz Freedom Center (DHFC); editor of the Center's publication, FrontPage Magazine; and director of Discover the Networks, a website that tracks individuals and groups on the political left.
Horowitz also founded the organization Students for Academic Freedom. Horowitz wrote several books with author Peter Collier, including four on prominent 20th-century American political families that had members elected to the presidency.
He and Collier have collaborated on books about cultural criticism.
Horowitz worked as a columnist for Salon.
Its then-editor Joan Walsh described him as a "conservative provocateur".From 1956 to 1975, Horowitz was an outspoken adherent of the New Left.
He later rejected progressive and Marxist ideas and became a defender of conservativism and proponent of neoconservatism, though he disagrees with that characterization.
Horowitz recounted his ideological journey in a series of retrospective books, culminating with his 1996 memoir Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey. The Southern Poverty Law Center describes Horowitz today as "a driving force of the anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant and anti-black movements".