John Podhoretz has and still does make my skin crawl! He and Billy could NEVER get where they are today, on their own. And WHY they are still employed, is beyond me!
Yes, Horowitz is a BRILLIANT writer, I buy and enjoy his books; however, my blood still boils, today, when I remember what it was like, in Manhattan in those crazed days of bombings, murders, and being hassled in the Village, Central Park, and yes, my own neighborhood.
Horowitz was never involved in bombings - he was long gone to California by then. He was connected to my long gone friends, Sidney Zion and Warren Hinkle, who were not into violence either although they were vehemently anti-Vietnam War and other radical causes. His guilt lies in setting his friend, Betty, to be a bookkeeper for the Black Panthers. They murdered her when she found discrepancies in the accounting. He has been adamant in not supporting violence and his discomfort at the left’s advocacy of it.