NewsReal Blog Book Club: David Swindle’s Distractions From Moving


What to do after a long day of moving arrangements and packing?
NRB’s managing editor, David Swindle, described what’s been on his reading agenda the past few weeks:
While flying out to Los Angeles last week to find our apartment I finished Howard Bloom’s first book, The Lucifer Principle. (I’d previously raved about Bloom’s newest book The [...]

Generation South Park Part 7: Offended Muslim Audience Threatens Show’s Creators


After being on the air since 1997 it is clear that South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are not afraid to tackle any subject. For years I have appreciated their courage and spent many episodes in side-splitting laughter. However, after thinking about the legitimate threat that real radical fundamentalists present to the free [...]

When Love Conquers Politics


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David Horowitz produces a profoundly moving and beautifully written memoir about his late daughter.

From the Writings of David Horowitz: April 10, 2010


Glazov: How much personal abuse have you suffered for your efforts? Why does the Left always attack the opponent as a human being, rather than simply just debate the opponent without dehumanizing and demonizing him?
David Horowitz: Because the Left is based on a fantasy of redemption — which requires that [...]

From the Writings of David Horowitz: April 8, 2010


The current president of the AAUP, Cary Nelson, is also a well-known political activist, author of Manifesto of a Tenured Radical. During a debate at a conference in 2007, Professor Nelson said: “You cannot take politics out of my classroom anymore than you can take it out of life. It’s [...]

What David Horowitz and My Irish Mother Know About Baseball


When my mother immigrated to America from Ireland in 1959, the first thing she learned about was Baseball. Her stipend from nursing school was small, so once she had climbed to her perch in the nose-bleeds, she was not only in “Baseball- Heaven” emotionally, but darn close physically.
In 1974, then living in San Jose, California, [...]

Ask NewsReal Blog: “Why Does Obama Hate Israel? Why Are People Anti-Semitic?”


I received this email over the weekend from one of our readers:
Mr. Swindle,
I have enjoyed your “Writings of David Horowitz” features for quite some time and I know that you are a busy man. I am a USMC veteran of the Viet Nam era and once had the pleasure of listening to David Horowitz speak. [...]

Radical Son and Scampi ala Livornese: The Choice Between Karl Marx and a Great Plate of Pasta


David Horowitz’s most profound and influential work is Radical Son. He could have simply called his book, “Radical,” but he did not. He situated his life in the only context that makes sense of any life, that of a family.
David introduced his book thus:
“An autobiography is not the complete record of a life, but [...]

Call the Campus Stalinists By their True Name


NRB’s Alex Knepper has gotten himself into a bit of hat water with the so-called “feminist” Left at his alma mater, American University.
He wrote a column challenging the college “date rape” dogma and has since been renounced by “liberals” throughout the blogosphere and on campus. Newspapers were stolen. Calls for his resignation from the paper [...]

The Threat We Face


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Crystallizing who our enemy is — and the policies we need to prevail.