Noted cultural critic David Horowitz will discuss the intersection of popular culture and public policy at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 8, in the Benjamin Mays Center, 95 Russell St. The public is invited to attend free of charge.<\/p>\n
President of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, Horowitz is a best-selling author and editor perhaps best known for his intellectual and political transformation from a 1960s peace and civil rights activist to a critic of that era’s leftist impact on modern American culture.<\/p>\n
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After earning a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University in 1959 and a master’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1961, Horowitz emerged as a leader of the New Left. During the 1960s, he edited Ramparts magazine, an influential left-wing journal.<\/p>\n
In the 1970s, dissatisfied with the consequences of radical politics in America and abroad, Horowitz withdrew from politics and joined Peter Collier in co-authoring a series of best-selling biographies of prominent American families, including The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty<\/em> (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1976), The Kennedys: An American Drama<\/em> (Summit Books\/Simon & Schuster, 1985), The Fords: An American Epic<\/em> (Summit Books\/Simon & Schuster 1987) and The Roosevelts: An American Saga<\/em> (Simon & Schuster 1994). For these works, The Los Angeles Times called Horowitz and Collier “the premier chroniclers of American dynastic tragedy.” In 1978 Horowitz received a Guggenheim fellowship, and in 1990 he received the Teach Freedom award from President Ronald Reagan.<\/p>\n During the 1980s, Horowitz developed a new political outlook. In their 1989 book Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the Sixties (<\/em>Summit Books\/Simon & Schuster), Horowitz and Collier chronicled the legacy of the New Left and its effects on politics and culture in this country. Horowitz recounted his political journey in his autobiography, Radical Son<\/em> (The Free Press, 1997).<\/p>\n In 1988 Horowitz created the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, a 20,000-member that publishes of four magazines, including Heterodoxy, a monthly focusing on “political correctness and other follies.” The center also hosts an annual “Images of Ourselves” conference at Paramount Studios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Noted cultural critic David Horowitz will discuss the intersection of popular culture and public policy at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 8, in the Benjamin Mays Center, 95 Russell St. The public is invited to attend free of charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[39,166,195,224],"tags":[73,80],"class_list":["post-30728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event-highlights","category-humanities-history","category-news-politics","category-society-culture","tag-1900s","tag-1960s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82729,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30728\/revisions\/82729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}