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EMERGENCY ORGANIZING MEETING WED. APRIL 27 7 PM CAFE 212 LERNER HALL
The Columbia College Republicans have decided to bring one of the country's most hateful bigots and McCarthyites to speak on campus this Friday at Noon - David Horowitz. The announcement for their event is pasted below.
For those not familiar with him, Horowitz is one of the figures behind Campus Watch, a website set up to "monitor" Middle East professors, ie. blacklist academics critical of Israel and US foreign policy.
Horowitz has a long history of trying to push the envelope-- making racism and 'the new McCarthyism' part of acceptable mainstream discourse. One of his big projects a few years ago was publishing ads in campus newspapers across the country which told African-Americans they should stop complaining abour racism and thank whites for liberating them from slavery.
Some of Horowitz's projects are so outrageous as to be comical and absurd. A recent example is "discoverthenetwork.org", a paranoid website alleging to track the "vast leftwing conspiracy."
But we should not underestimate the impact a McCarthyite like Horowitz can have in the present climate. He has initiated a so-called "Academic Bill of Rights" in several state legislatures, which uses the phony language of "balance" to attack academic dissent. You can read more about this at:
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050404&s=jacoby
Horowitz is obviously coming to Columbia because he wants to capitalize on the recent attacks on Middle Eastern studies professors here. Let's not let his hatred and racism go unchallenged.
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The CPU and the College Republicans Present:
David Horowitz, Author, Editor, and President of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture
DATE: Friday, April 29th TIME: 12:00 pm LOCATION: Room 555, Alfred Lerner Hall
David Horowitz is the President of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, and a best-selling author and editor. Horowitz earned a Bachelor's degree from Columbia University in 1959 and a Master's degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1961. He quickly became a leader of the New Left. During the Sixties, he edited Ramparts magazine, an influential left-wing journal. In the 1970s, dissatisfied with the consequences of radical policies in America and abroad, Horowitz withdrew from politics.
In 1978 Horowitz was honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship, and in 1990 he received the Teach Freedom Award from former President Ronald Reagan.
During the Eighties, Horowitz's second thoughts about politics crystallized. In their 1989 book Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the Sixties, Horowitz and Peter Collier chronicled the legacy of the New Left and its effects on American politics and culture.
Horowitz's political journey is recounted in his autobiography, Radical Son, which was published by the Free Press in February 1997. Horowitz went on to publish The Politics of Bad Faith in 1998; Hating Whitey and Other Progressive Causes in 1999, and, in 2000, The Art of Political War, which Bush chief campaign strategist Karl Rove called a "must read."
In 1988, Horowitz created the Center for the Study of Popular Culture. The Center boasts 20,000-plus members and publishes four magazines, including Frontpagemag.com and Heterodoxy, a monthly focusing on "political correctness and other follies."
David Horowitz has spoken at over 100 colleges and universities. He has appeared on Nightline, Crossfire, Today, Good Morning America, C-SPAN, CNBC, FoxNews Channel and CBS This Morning, and gives hundreds of interviews yearly on radio and television.