Editing David Horowitz (section)

==Responses to Horowitz's views==
Some Horowitz accounts of U.S. colleges and universities as bastions of liberal indoctrination have been disputed.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2006-05-31-horowitz-cover_x.htm|work=USA Today|title=Ex-liberal navigates right|date=May 31, 2006|access-date=May 1, 2010}}</ref> For example, Horowitz alleged that a [[University of Northern Colorado]] student received a failing grade on a final exam for refusing to write an essay arguing that [[George W. Bush]] is a [[War crime|war criminal]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/archive/2005/March2005/UNColoradostorydetails031405.htm|title=University of N. Colorado Story Confirmed|publisher=Studentsforacademicfreedom.org|access-date=April 23, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016104231/http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/archive/2005/March2005/UNColoradostorydetails031405.htm|archive-date=October 16, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> A spokeswoman for the university said that the test question was not as described by Horowitz and that there were nonpolitical reasons for the grade, which was not an F.<ref name="Jaschik">{{cite web |last1=Jaschik |first1=Scott |title=Tattered Poster Child |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/03/15/tattered-poster-child |website=Inside Higher Ed |access-date=27 October 2018 |date=15 March 2005}}</ref> Horowitz identified the professor<ref name="Jaschik"/> as Robert Dunkley, an assistant professor of criminal justice at Northern Colorado. Dunkley said Horowitz made him an example of [[liberal bias in academia|"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".<ref name="Jaschik" />

In another instance, Horowitz said a [[Pennsylvania State University]] biology professor showed his students the film ''[[Fahrenheit 9/11]]'' just before the [[2004 United States presidential election|2004 election]] in an attempt to influence their votes.<ref>The [[David Horowitz Freedom Center|Students for Academic Freedom]] report "The Campaign for Academic Freedom", p. 38</ref> Pressed by ''Inside Higher Ed'', Horowitz said that the claim was hearsay from a "legislative staffer" and that he had no proof it happened.<ref>{{cite web|last=Jaschik|first=Scott|url=http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/01/11/retract|title=Retractions From David Horowitz: Inside Higher Ed|website=Inside Higher Ed|date=January 11, 2006|access-date=April 23, 2013|archive-date=September 6, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130906051602/http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/01/11/retract|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Horowitz's books, particularly ''[[The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America]],'' were criticized by scholars such as [[Todd Gitlin]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/dangprofs//2006/03/professors-post-todd-gitlin-on.html|title=Professor's Post: Todd Gitlin on Horowitz' 'dangerous professors'|publisher=StudentsforAcademicFreedom.org|date=March 1, 2006|access-date=April 23, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150630151520/http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/dangprofs//2006/03/professors-post-todd-gitlin-on.html|archive-date=June 30, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> The group ''Free Exchange on Campus'' issued a 50-page report in May 2006 in which they take issue with many of the books' assertions: they identify specific factual errors, unsubstantiated assertions and quotations that appear to be either in error or taken out of context.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20060624025117/http://www.freeexchangeoncampus.org/index.php?option=com_docman&Itemid=25&task=view_category&catid=12&order=dmdate_published&ascdesc=DESC Free Exchange on Campus], Freeexchangeoncampus.org; accessed August 10, 2016.</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Jaschik|first=Scott|url=http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/05/09/report|title=Fact-Checking David Horowitz|website=Inside Higher Ed|date=May 9, 2006|access-date=April 23, 2013|archive-date=September 6, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130906041847/http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/05/09/report|url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[Chip Berlet]], writing for the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] (SPLC), accused Horowitz's Center for the Study of Popular Culture of being one of 17 "right-wing foundations and think tanks support[ing] efforts to make bigoted and discredited ideas respectable."<ref name="berlet"/> Berlet accused Horowitz of blaming [[slavery]] on "black Africans ... abetted by dark-skinned Arabs" and of "attack[ing] minority 'demands for special treatment' as 'only necessary because some blacks can't seem to locate the ladder of opportunity within reach of others".<ref name="berlet">{{cite web|last=Berlet|first=Chip|year=2003|url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2003/mainstream|title=Into the Mainstream|work=Intelligence Report|publisher=[[Southern Poverty Law Center]]|access-date=February 26, 2017}}</ref>