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On behalf of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, we are very saddened to announce the passing of the Center’s founder, David Horowitz. After a lengthy battle with cancer, David passed yesterday at the age of 86.
The Freedom Center’s founder and guiding force was a relentless conservative warrior who survived a previous brush with death (chronicled in his book Mortality and Faith), confrontations with the Black Panthers, campus radicals, government investigations, death threats, and hate campaigns, some led by his former friends and allies, without ever considering giving up or letting up. Nothing short of the end that comes for us all could silence his voice. He continued writing, working, and steering the Center to the very last; his final article, “The Biggest Lie of All,” appeared earlier this month.
Although he was a giant in the conservative liberty movement for over 40 years, David was raised a Marxist and was one of the leading intellectuals of the New Left movement at Berkeley in the 1960’s. But David, along with his writing partner and Freedom Center co-founder Peter Collier, eventually had a political epiphany and joined the side of freedom in the early 1980‘s. They committed the second half of their lives and work warning Americans of the dangers of the Progressives whose intellectual roots and totalitarian aims they understood better than many Leftists themselves.
David’s legacy is vast and the number of people that he inspired, mentored, and impacted is incalculable. That we live in a world today where there is a fighting chance of defeating the Leftist utopians who would enslave us is due in no small measure to the rare courage and unflagging passion that exemplified David’s work these past 40 years.
Over the years, David became something of a Saul Alinsky for the conservative movement, shaking a complacent Right out of its sleep and reinventing it as a war machine, laying out the strategies and principles for defeating the Left in too many bestselling books, articles, and pamphlets to count.
David’s message to the conservative movement was that it needed to abandon its habit of embracing noble failure and instead fight to win. Indeed, Donald Trump’s MAGA movement was shaped and guided by David and his disciples like Stephen Miller. And while his passing is an incalculable loss, David lived long enough to see his ideas and tactics become the heart and soul of a new movement to take back America.
David Horowitz, 1939-2025. Requiescat in pace.
How sad. What a great fighter for America. Thank you for all your great work Mr. Horowitz.
So sad! We have really lost a giant among the most righteous of men!
David Horowitz’s quest for the truth was unshakable – and unparalleled among intellectuals in an immature world where herd-mentalities, lack of independence and ignorance are predominant. Via his profound writings and speeches, emminated a sacred-like voice of inspiration, wisdom and morality for those who wete lucky enough to aquaint themselves with his books and FPM. His love of humanity reverberated throughout the world, reaching out and inspiring a vast array of loyal readers everywhere. Through his unrelenting quest for the truth, Horowitz, unlike others, was able to see things and analyze events on a much deeper level than most, and his fearless mindset enabled him to naturally and easily adapt and change (such as his transition from a Marxist to a conservative) – a feat that others so rarely accomplish. Righteous people everywhere will sorely miss David Horowitz!
David Horowitz has been a great teacher for me and so many others.
He’ll be missed by so many of us who never met him yet benefited from his teaching and writing.
I’m sorry to hear of the loss of David, I have had this site bookmarked for over 10 years.
He was one of my greatest heroes. Rest in peace, David.
He was a tireless warrior and fabulous friend. As he was one of my late husband’s best friends, I spent many hours as a grasshopper at the table during their cerebral discussions. May he rest in peace. 💞
He’s dead? Fuck! I disagreed with him sometimes and he used this venue to agree or disagree with me a few times personally, which I respect and admire, but he was a good man. I knew he was old but I didn’t know he was sick. I’m not self centered but I am hurt. and I prayed for his family and friends.
God bless him. If it weren’t for him, this website wouldn’t exist.
I discovered Mr Horowitz in the mid 1980’s. His journey out leftist is fascinating.
I am very saddened and shocked by this sudden news, but I have no doubt that David’s principles and beliefs will live on in the many contributors to this website and their other writings.
Inspired by The Books of David:
Dear Lord, thank you for giving me the strength and the conviction to complete the task you entrusted to me. Thank you for guiding me straight and true through the many obstacles in my path. And for keeping me resolute when all around seemed lost. Thank you for your protection and your many signs along the way.
Thank you for any good that I may have done. Thank you for finally allowing me to rest. I’m so very tired, but I go now to my rest at peace. Knowing that I have done right with my time on this earth. I fought the good fight, I finished the race, I kept the faith.
Rest in peace, David.
My mom got me interested in Mr. Horowitz’s writing years ago. She passed away last September after a battle with Alzheimer’s. May they both Rest in Peace, and may their noble values live on in all of us.
Rest in peace David
A website I have belonged to since 2009, a group of dedicate “moms” fighting tyranny, has found Discover the Networks to be one of its most valuable tools in our good fight. Also Front Page Mag, an excellent resource for news.
David was one of our heroes and he will forever be remembered as a purveyor of truth.
We are deeply sadness by this loss of a wonderful human who did so much for this country.
May he rest in peace, As A Mom and all of its mommies.
A GREAT man and one of my biggest heroes. His books have definitely helped shape my political viewpoint and I have constantly cited his work in MANY debates with leftists. Like St. Paul he changed direction in the midst of his life, but made up for lost time by creating books, lectures, Frontpage mag and the Freedom Center. He has influenced and helped MILLIONS and will continue to do so till the end of time.
WHAT A LIFE!!
Yes, he did a great job and left a valuable legacy, didn’t he?
Our loss, the world’s loss.
A militant we can’t afford to lose whose origin story on how he became conservative is one of great interest.
My favorite part is how much he began to hate the communists that came to his house because they could never enjoy the outdoors or the sunshine in California. They wore black socks and sandals and didn’t go outside which denoted failure as a human being to him.
FrontPageMag was by far the best website to read in the days and months following Sept 11, 2001. No other website in 2001 talked about Islamic terrorism, and Islam in-general, as frankly as FPM.
Wanted to add to the Frontpage Editors- very well said. Thank you.
RIP our radical son.