" Communism. Marxism. Berkeley University. Radicalism. The Black Panthers. All contemporary interests and affiliations in the life of a young David Horowitz. A wonderful profile of a former radical who came to grips with his beliefs and engaged the dogma around him, eventually becoming a Reagan-supporting conservative. Born into a Communist home that revered the Soviet Union and Marxism, he attended Columbia with Red professors and eventually headed West to the radicalism of Berkeley. He received his degree in English Literature and was an editor at the '60s magazine Ramparts with his, now, long-time colleague Peter Collier. After becoming involved with The Black Panthers and Bobby Seale he came to see the ugliness of the movement that he loved. He saw the faith of the Left wrapped in its involvement in radicalism (from the urban terrorists The Weather Underground to Tom Hayden's raised fist approach). He, along with Collier, started rethinking their belief in the Utopia and started the Second Thoughts movement of ex-Lefties who rejected their old values. "
— Brian, 10/24/2013