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When David Horowitz stopped making personal appearances and fewer interviews, there was the perception among some that he had stopped working, but nothing could have been further from the truth.
As I wrote in an article that will appear later this week, he never stopped.
In the weeks before David Horowitz’s passing, he wrote an article and finished another book. In and out of the hospital, he would call me on the phone to relay another idea for a series or another article about the Left. When we worked together on an article about the leftist fifth column, he was exhausted and I told him we could work on it next week. There would be time. He sighed skeptically, knowing perhaps what we only know now, but also with a note of relief.
I was wrong. He was right.
David wrote the way he breathed and he kept thinking, believing, writing and fighting until the end.
You can see David’s most recent article, ‘The Biggest Lie of All’ published on April 17th here.
Thank you, Mr. Greenfield, for this wonderful tribute to David Horowitz. Yes, he will be sorely missed. I am hoping that Almighty God will welcome David Horowitz into His kingdom with the words: “Well done, my good and faithful servant.”
I started reading him back in the 1970s or 1980s when he was the only conservative writer in the SF Bay Area who got published in the local papers. Leftist ideology was so strong back then that he was tolerated as kind of an oddity, as the locals had no doubts about the correctness of leftist ideology. But everything I read that he wrote was true about that period of SF Bay history, as I lived through it a few years later than he did.
So long as you are living you should do what living people should do which is to strive. Striving is the essence of a human life.
I’m reminded of a little book that was published some ten years ago called “When Breath becomes Air” by a 35 year old terminally ill neurosurgeon named Paul Kalanithi. He and his wife decided to have a child even though they knew his time was short and he would not be alive to see his daughter grow up.
Why did they decide to have a child under those conditions? He wrote because the essence of a human life is to move forward and strive. So long as you’re living you move forward and strive.
Who now picks up his torch at this site and in his organizations?
While David’s body was ill, his mind never dulled; creating brilliant thoughts and comments. Thank you Daniel for reminding us of the high degree of clarity David maintained even in his last days on earth,
thank you Darlene
David was up there with Rush as a conservative icon….I will for sure miss him. Daniel will have to fill in, a worthy replacement, for sure…
you weren’t wrong, you were both RIGHT. Ty & G-D bless you both for refusing to be silenced. You both made a difference.