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December 20, 2007 | If you google "frontpagemag.com", the result will describe the online magazine as "A cutting edge magazine of politics and culture from David Horowitz and The Center for the Study of Popular Culture." You might also see the most current issues that opponents of the magazine have - with the magazine and with Mr. David Horowitz.
It is not suggested that there is any untruth to the desription or that any leanings should be noted - it is always best for the reader to decide how to interpret such content and ponder just how "cutting edge" the magazine actually is. As Horowitz has come under a good deal of criticism of late from those described for us as "leftwing critics", it is intersting to note how he is described on his web site of "politics and culture". Horowitz is touted on the site as, "one of the founders of the New Left in the 1960s" and a spokesman for civil rights. He was a spokesman for one initiative that prevented government from "granting preferential treatment to any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin". It would appear from the description above that David Horowitz and his magazine would be a spearhead for the supposed "educated liberal elite" we hear so much about. Yet, the undertones of the "politics and culture" of the magazine site do not seem to conform to the mantra assigned to the "liberal elite" at all.[1] In fact, one must dig further to find the assessment that, David Horowitz is hated by the Left because he is not only an apostate but has been even more relentless and aggressive in attacking his former political allies than some of us who preceded him in what I once called 'breaking ranks' with that world. He has also taken the polemical and organizational techniques he learned in his days on the left, and figured out how to use them against the Left, whose vulnerabilities he knows in his bones."[2] While Mr. Horowitz launched a campaign to "return the American University to traditional principles of open inquiry and to halt indoctrination in the classroom", it is seemingly fair to ask if such campaigns are not now principally driven in response to Mr. Horowitz's potentially biased view that there is a "shocking and perverse culture of academics who are poisoning the minds of today's college students"[2]. For the many foreign readers here at CSE, it might be interesting to peruse the magazine that rides the coat tails of Mr. Horowitz and discover the influence he staunchly believes should be given at least equal time. Be sure to scan the archived materials. [1] [2] ___________________________________ 12.20.2007 |