A lot of folks have careful, reasoned attacks on David Horowitz’s list of "most dangerous professors", not least dangerous profs Todd Gitlin and Michael Berube. I’ll add that if a conservative interested in the way mass media shapes debate can’t read a smart book like Gitlin’s Whole World is Watching or Habermas’s Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and get more than "these guys are leftists" than pity on him.
Ultimately, I can’t shake the feeling that Horowitz is popular for the same reason that recovering drug addict rock stars are for born-again Christians: because their trajectory from left to right, sinner to sanctified serves as some "proof" of the veracity of the latter position. The conversion narrative gets performed time and again.
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