340 research outputs found
David Horowitz: The Art of Political War
No full textA best-selling author, Horowitz made the lifelong intellectual and political journey from 1960s radical activist and leader of the New Left to crusader against what he calls the corrosive effects of leftism on culture.
During the 1960s Horowitz became the leader of the New Left, editing Ramparts magazine, an influential left-wing journal. Dissatisfied with the tragic consequences of radical policies in America and abroad, he withdrew from politics in the 1970s.
Horowitz and his partner, Peter Collier, then co-authored a series of best-selling biographies of prominent American families: The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty (1976), The Kennedys: An American Drama (1985), The Fords: An American Epic (1987) and The Roosevelts: An American Saga (1994).
In 1989, Horowitz co-authored Destructive Generations: Second Thoughts About the Sixties, which chronicled the legacy of the New Left and its effects on American politics and culture. His autobiography, Radical Son (1987), recounts his political journey, while his latest book, The Politics of Bad Faith, focuses on leftism and its socialist themes.
Horowitz has earned numerous awards for his books. He was honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1976 and received the Teach Freedom Award from President Ronald Reagan.
He founded the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, located in Los Angeles, in 1988. It now boasts 20,000 members and publishes four magazines, including Heterodoxy, a monthly magazine that focuses on political correctness and other follies
Henri Temianka Correspondence; (horowitz)
No full textThis collection contains material pertaining to the life, career, and activities of Henri Temianka, violin virtuoso, conductor, music teacher, and author. Materials include correspondence, concert programs and flyers, music scores, photographs, and books.https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/temianka_correspondence/3625/thumbnail.jp
The Second Ku Klux Klan, White Nationalism, and the Advent of the Culture Wars
No full textPresentation from the Friendly House by David Horowitz who explores the ethnocentric and populist appeal of the 1920s Ku Klan Klan, a movement focusing on the perceived threat of recent immigrants. The discussion includes an analysis of the rhetoric of Klan leader Hiram Wesley Evans who pictured Protestant nationalists as helpless before the onslaught of immigrants. Horowitz has taught U. S. Cultural and Political History at Portland State University since 1968. He has many publications. He is the author of “Inside the Klavern: The Secret History of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s.
S.M. Dubnov’s Ideological Challenge in Emigration: Autonomism and Zionism, Europe and Palestine
No full textIn this paper author explores Semyon Dubnov’s position on Zionism and Diaspora Autonomism in the years after he left Soviet Russia in 1921. In particular Horowitz asserts that Dubnov must have been aware of the fact that his ideas were receiving their broadest application not in Eastern Europe, as he hoped, but in Palestine. The paper treats Dubnov’s reaction to this ideological challenge
S.M. Dubnov’s Ideological Challenge in Emigration: Autonomism and Zionism, Europe and Palestine
No full textIn this paper author explores Semyon Dubnov’s position on Zionism and Diaspora Autonomism in the years after he left Soviet Russia in 1921. In particular Horowitz asserts that Dubnov must have been aware of the fact that his ideas were receiving their broadest application not in Eastern Europe, as he hoped, but in Palestine. The paper treats Dubnov’s reaction to this ideological challenge
A democratic South Africa?: constitutional engineering in a divided society
No full textCan a society as deeply divided as South Africa become democratic? In a most timely work, Donald L. Horowitz, author of the acclaimed Ethnic Groups in Conflict , points to the conditions that make democracy an improbable outcome in South Africa. At the same time, he identifies ways to overcome these obstacles, and he describes institutions that offer constitution makers the best chance for a democratic future.South Africa is generally considered an isolated case, a country unlike any other. Drawing on his extensive experience of racially and ethnically divided societies, however, Horowitz brings South Africa back into African and comparative politics. Experience gained in Nigeria, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and other divided societies around the world is relevant because, as South Africa leaves apartheid behind, it will still confront problems of pluralism: racial, ethnic, and ideological. Countries like South Africa, Horowitz argues, must develop institutions capable of coping with such divisions.Reviewing an array of constitutional proposals for South Africa - group rights, consociation, partition, binationalism, and an enhanced role for the judiciary - Horowitz shows that most are inappropriate for the country's problems, or else run afoul of some major ideological taboo. Institutions that are both apt and acceptable do exist, however. These are premised on the need to create incentives for accommodation across group lines. In the final chapter, Horowitz makes a major contribution to the theory of democratization as he considers how commitments to democracy might be extracted even from political groups with undemocratic objectives.Ranging skillfully across studies of social distance and stereotypes, electoral and party systems, constitutions and judiciaries, conflict and accommodation, and negotiation and democratization, Horowitz displays a broad comparative vision. His innovative study will change the way theorists and practitioners approach the task of making democracy work in difficult conditions
9/11, Culture War, and the Pitfalls of History
No full text9/11 marks one of the traumatic events of modern U. S. history. Yet its occurrence and aftermath must be placed in the context of social movements and global developments. This presentation focuses on getting past political and social divisiveness. Professor Horowitz has taught at Portland State since 1968, where he won a prize for outstanding achievement in 2007. He is co-author of a U.S. history textbook and has a number of publications to his credit. He is the author of a personal, professional, and political memoir with the title “Getting There: An American Cultural Odyssey.
America\u27s Political Class Under Fire: The Twentieth Century\u27s Great Culture War
No full textDavid A. Horowitz mounts a vigorous challenge in this book to the conventional wisdom of political historians, both on the left and right. Rebels against the rule of the best and the brightest have often altered the outcome of elections and the shape of government policies. Now, at last, they have a full and empathetic treatment of what they believed and what they accomplished. -- Michael Kazin, author of The Populist Persuasion: An American History and Professor of History, Georgetown Universit
Two On the Aisle: A Judaic American Tale of Romance and Creative Dreams
No full textTwo on the Aisle: A Judaic American Tale of Romance and Creative Dreams, is a biography of the author\u27s parents, Nathan and Dorothy Horowitz, as well as a twentieth century American cultural history. The story describes how two offspring of Eastern European immigrants combined a struggle for material security with literary efforts that blended Yiddish-flavored humor, social compassion, religious devotion, and secular concerns with piercing meditations on life\u27s disappointments and fragility. While sampling fragments of the couple\u27s three-act play that enjoyed a brief run off-Broadway in the 1950s and excerpts from published poetry, short stories, sketches, and essays, Two on the Aisle draws on a vast archive of correspondence, journal entries, and unpublished work to offer distinctive insights into modern Jewish and American cultural identity
Where Have All the Parties Gone? Fraenkel and Grofman on the Alternative Vote - Yet Again
No full textThe alternative vote (AV) is a preferential electoral system that tends to reward political moderation and compromise. Fraenkel and Grofman have repeatedly attempted to show that AV is not conducive to inter-ethnic moderation in severely divided societies. In this response to their latest attempt,the author points out that neither political party coordination of the vote nor strategic voting plays any part in their analysis. In contrast, he explains how moderate parties of one ethnic group are able to induce their supporters to cast ballots for moderate parties supported by voters of another ethnic group. Prof. Horowitz also explains why the incentives for parties to arrange interethnic vote transfers are much greater under AV than they are under systems such as single transferable vote, which is in use in Northern Ireland, and shows that Fraenkel and Grofman\u27s interpretations of AV\u27s operation in Australia, Fiji, Sri Lanka, and Papua-New Guinea are contrary to the evidence
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