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Amazon Rapids Fun stories for kids on the go. Amazon Restaurants Food delivery from local restaurants. In keeping with his provocateur position, in during Black History Month Horowitz purchased, or attempted to purchase, advertising space in several student American university publications to express his opposition to reparations for slavery.

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Horowitz supported the interventionist foreign policy associated with the Bush Doctrine. But he wrote against US intervention in the Kosovo War , arguing that it was unnecessary and harmful to U. In the early 21st century, he has written critically of libertarian anti-war views. In , Horowitz launched Discover the Networks , a conservative watchdog project that monitors funding for, and various ties among, leftists and progressive causes. In two books, Horowitz accused Dana L.

The Most Dangerous Academics in America , of the "explicit introduction of political agendas into the classroom. Cloud replied in Inside Higher Ed that her experience demonstrates that Horowitz damages professors' lives by his accusations and that he needs to be viewed as more than a political opponent. After discussion, the National Communication Association decided against granting Horowitz a spot as a panelist at its national conference in He wrote in Inside Higher Ed, "The fact that no academic group has had the balls to invite me says a lot about the ability of academic associations to discuss important issues if a political minority wants to censor them.

Association officials decided that having a bodyguard present "communicates the expectation of confrontation and violence.

Horowitz appeared in Occupy Unmasked , a documentary portraying the Occupy Wall Street movement as a sinister organization formed to violently destroy the American government. In the early 21st century, Horowitz has concentrated on issues of academic freedom, wanting to protect conservative viewpoints. He, Eli Lehrer, and Andrew Jones published a pamphlet, "Political Bias in the Administrations and Faculties of 32 Elite Colleges and Universities" , in which they find the ratio of Democrats to Republicans at 32 schools to be more than 10 to 1.

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Horowitz's book, The Professors: The Most Dangerous Academics in America , criticizes individual professors for, as he alleges, engaging in indoctrination rather than a disinterested pursuit of knowledge. He says his campaign for academic freedom is ideologically neutral. Horowitz says that conservatives, and particularly Republican Party members, are systematically excluded from faculties, citing statistical studies on faculty party affiliation. In the Georgia General Assembly passed a resolution on a 41—5 vote to adopt a version of the ABR for state educational institutions.

In Pennsylvania , the House of Representatives created a special legislative committee to investigate issues of academic freedom, including whether students who hold unpopular views need more protection. In November it reported that it had not found evidence of problems with students' rights. Horowitz has been married four times. Their daughter Sarah Rose Horowitz died in March at age 44 from Turner syndrome -related heart complications.

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She had been a teacher, writer and human rights activist. As an activist, she had cooked meals for the homeless , stood vigil at San Quentin on nights when the state of California executed prisoners, worked with autistic children in public schools and, with the American Jewish World Service , helped rebuild homes in El Salvador after a hurricane, and traveled to India to oppose child labor. Horowitz's son Ben Horowitz is a technology entrepreneur, investor, and co-founder, along with Marc Andreessen , of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

Horowitz's second marriage, to Sam Moorman, ended in divorce. Horowitz's fourth and present marriage is to April Mullvain.

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Horowitz now describes himself as an agnostic. Some of Horowitz's accounts of U. Bush is a war criminal. Horowitz identified the professor [60] as Robert Dunkley, an assistant professor of criminal justice at Northern Colorado. Dunkley said Horowitz made him an example of "liberal bias" in academia and yet, "Dunkley said that he comes from a Republican family, is a registered Republican and considers himself politically independent, taking pride in never having voted a straight party ticket," according to Inside Higher Ed magazine.

Horowitz has been criticized for material in his books, particularly The Professors: Chip Berlet , writing for the Southern Poverty Law Center SPLC , identified Horowitz's Center for the Study of Popular Culture as one of 17 "right-wing foundations and think tanks support[ing] efforts to make bigoted and discredited ideas respectable.

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