First Things RSS Feed - David Horowitz https://www.firstthings.com/author/david-horowitz en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:57:33 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/david-horowitz 60 Utopian Passions https://www.firstthings.com/article/1992/04/utopian-passions https://www.firstthings.com/article/1992/04/utopian-passions Wed, 01 Apr 1992 00:00:00 -0500 “Workers of the world . . . forgive me.”    

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]]> Left Out https://www.firstthings.com/article/1991/03/left-out https://www.firstthings.com/article/1991/03/left-out Fri, 01 Mar 1991 00:00:00 -0500 Encyclopedia of the American Left
edited by mary jo buhle, paul buhle, and dan georgakas
garland, 928 pages, $95

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]]> The Radical Paradigm and the New Racism https://www.firstthings.com/article/1990/11/the-radical-paradigm-and-the-new-racism https://www.firstthings.com/article/1990/11/the-radical-paradigm-and-the-new-racism Thu, 01 Nov 1990 00:00:00 -0500 In confronting the race question in America today, we are faced with a paradox. On the one hand, our generation has lived through a political and cultural revolution that has no parallel. Discriminatory laws enforcing racial segregation have been declared unconstitutional and abolished, while the dream of Martin Luther King (that every individual be judged by the content of his character and not the color of his skin) has been integrated into the American dream itself in a way that only Lincoln’s Gettysburg image (a government of, by, and for the people) had been previously. At the same time, the accession of black Americans to full citizenship rights has been truly dramatic. Black Americans have become the mayors, police chiefs, and public officials of the very citadels of what was once the segregationist south. Nor is it only in the south that such victories have been won, for black Americans have been elected mayors of the great metropolitan centers of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, and Los Angeles as well, and have become an integral part of the nation’s political life.

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