The future journalist and commentator was born in Forest Hills, Queens, in New York City, in 1936, the grandson of Russian Jews who had immigrated to the U.S. His parents were high school teachers and devoted members of the American Communist Party. They wrote against the Vietnam War, and in his memoir, Horowitz recounts how the conflict became a foil for the Left’s antagonism against the American way of life. “In pursuit of answers to the mystery of Betty’s death, I subsequently discovered that the Panthers had killed more than a dozen people in the course of conducting extortion, prostitution, and drug rackets in the Oakland ghetto,” Horowitz wrote in a piece published in Salon in 1999.
Author: Jacob Adams
Published at: 2025-04-30 22:02:20
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