David Horowitz, 1939–2025

Roger Kimball writes: With the death of David Horowitz at the age of eighty-six on April 29, America lost not only one of its most passionate, well-informed, and effective critics of the Left but also one of it most passionate, well-informed, and effective champions of free speech, color-blind justice, and American exceptionalism. Together with his friend and longtime intellectual collaborator Peter Collier, whose death I wrote about here in 2019, David famously graduated from the political radicalism of the 1960s to an evolving species of pro-American political maturity in the 1980s and beyond. Here, by way of appreciation and farewell, are a few notes on David’s achievements and the significance of his long, prodigious, and multifaceted career as a writer, activist, mentor, and political lightning rod.