… [Recognizing] the human capacity for evil, or just for plain screwing up; that is why rules are important. … Having rules that are respected make it harder for people to break them. This is a more subtle, but in the long run a more trustworthy form of compassion that … softness of heart.
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You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth.
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| Birth: | 10th January, 1939 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Activist, Editor, Writer |
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David Joel Horowitz was born in Forest Hills, Queens, New York. He is an American conservative writer, activist and editor. He is a founder and current president of the think tank the David Horowitz Freedom Center; editor of FrontPage Magazine. He founded the organization Students for Academic Freedom, purportedly to oppose political correctness and leftist orientation in academia. He has worked as a columnist for Salon magazine. He has recounted his ideological journey in a series of retrospective books, culminating with his 1996 memoir Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey. He received a BA from Columbia University in 1959 and a master's degree in English literature at University of California, Berkeley. He also wrote The Free World Colossus: A Critique of American Foreign Policy in the Cold War.
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