| [FrontPage] In some parallel universe, David Horowitz never left the left. Instead he closed his eyes to the cracks in the Marxist ideal, zipped up his lip about the high crimes of his comrades, and, like them, reaped the rewards of his blind loyalty. He continued to write books that were lauded in the mainstream media; he was profiled glowingly in the New York Times Magazine and got the cover of Time; he won Pulitzer Prizes and National Book Awards; he was offered huge sums to teach at Harvard, Yale, and other top universities, all of which awarded him honorary degrees. In that alternate world, in short, Horowitz, along with the likes of Angela Davis, is today regarded in the corridors of academic, political, and cultural power as an ornament of American civilization. |