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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.