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    A Point in Time: The Search for Redemption in This Life and the Next

    By David Horowitz

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    A Matter of Life and Death

    New York Times bestselling author David Horowitz is famous for his conversion from 1960s radicalism. In A Point in Time, his lyrical yet startling new book, he offers meditations on an even deeper conversion, one which touches on the very essence of every human life.

    Part memoir and part philosophical reflection, A Point in Time focuses on man’s inevitable search for meaningand how for those without religious belief, that search often leads to a faith in historical progress, one that is bound to disappoint. Horowitz agrees with Marcus Aurelius, whose stoic philosophy provides a focal point for the book, He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything that has taken place from all eternity and everything that will be for time without end. ”

    Horowitz remembers his father, a political radical who put his faith in just such a redemptive future. He examines this hope through the other great figure who organizes these reflections, the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky, whose writings foreshadowed the great tragedies of the social revolutions to come. Horowitz draws on eternal themes: the need we have to make sense out of the lives we have been given, our desire to repair the injustices we encounter, and the consequences of our mortality.

    Interweaving episodes of his own life with the writings of the philosopher and the novelist, Horowitz explores how we provide meaning to an apparently senseless existence and the dire consequences that follow from seeking to redeem it by attempting to make a perfect world out of the imperfect one in which we find ourselves.

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    A POINT IN TIME

    David Horowitz is so powerful a polemicist that it is often forgotten how beautifully he writes. For the same reason, the deeply considered philosophical perspective and the wide-ranging erudition underlying his political passions are just as often overlooked. But it is precisely these qualities that come to the fore and shine through so brilliantly in the linked meditations that make up A Point in Time. With Marcus Aurelius, Ecclesiastes, and Dostoevsky as its guides, this little book boldly ventures into an exploration of first things and last that is as moving as it is profound.”
    NORMAN PODHORETZ, author of Why Are Jews Liberals?

    A beautiful book, both sad and uplifting. Moving in turns from the intimate to the universal, Horowitz not only explores but also embodies the dignity of the tragic worldview. A Point in Time is a poignant and elegiac reflection on life from a man who bears the burden of unknowing with courage and grace.”
    ANDREW KLAVAN, author of True Crime and Empire of Lies

    Emulating Marcus Aurelius, David Horowitz has produced a meditation on facing death that is poignant and wise. Whether invoking the Stoics or reflecting on his own father, he helps us think through that most basic of all questions: what is it that can give meaning to our existence?”
    WALTER ISAACSON, author of Einstein

    I have admired David Horowitz for decades. He has taught me many important lessons. But never have I been so moved by his writing as I am by this brief and profound book.”
    DENNIS PRAGER, author of Why the Jews?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRegnery Publishing
    Release dateAug 29, 2011
    ISBN9781596982956
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    A Point in Time: The Search for Redemption in This Life and the Next
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    David Horowitz

    David Horowitz is a noted conservative thinker, writer and commentator and the Founder and CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center in Los Angeles, CA, whose mission is “to defend free societies which are under attack from enemies within and without, both secular and religious;” and further, to defend the principles of individual freedom, the rule of law, private property, limited government and to reestablish academic freedom in American schools. The Freedom Center publishes the online news magazine FrontPageMag.com, where Horowitz serves as Editor-in-Chief. David Horowitz grew up a "red diaper baby" in a communist community in Sunnyside, Queens, and was one of the founders of the New Left in the 1960s and an editor of its largest magazine, Ramparts; but forced to confront some difficult truths about the political left, Horowitz ultimately found a political and intellectual home as a conservative activist. Cultural critic Camille Paglia has said of David Horowitz: "I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. . . .I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time." Norman Podhoretz, former editor of Commentary magazine, says of Horowitz: "David Horowitz is hated by the Left because he is not only an apostate but has been even more relentless and aggressive in attacking his former political allies than some of us who preceded him in what I once called 'breaking ranks' with that world. He has also taken the polemical and organizational techniques he learned in his days on the left, and figured out how to use them against the Left, whose vulnerabilities he knows in his bones." Horowitz has written well over a dozen books, including The New York Times Bestseller BIG AGENDA: TRUMP’S REAL PLAN TO SAVE AMERICA, as well as DARK AGENDA: THE WAR TO DESTROY CHRISTIAN AMERICA, UNHOLY ALLIANCE, THE BLACK BOOK OF THE AMERICAN LEFT, TAKE NO PRISONERS, PROGRESSIVE RACISM, THJE PROFESSORS and his celebrated memoirs MORTALITY & FAITH and RADICAL SON. https://www.horowitzfreedomcenter.org/ http://www.frontpagemag.com/ The David Horowitz Freedom Center is located in Los Angeles, CA.

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