David Horowitz died of cancer on Tuesday at the age of 86. One of the most influential conservative voices of the last half-century, he was a powerful writer, speaker, and polemicist.
The son of two American Communists and born in 1939, Horowitz was a radical student leader and the editor of Ramparts magazine in the 1960s and early 1970s. He turned to the right politically in 1974, when his friend Betty Van Patter was murdered after going to work for the Black Panther Party.
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