Peter Collier and David Horowitz are nationally known writers, editors, and political commentators whose intellectual development arcs from early, influential support for the Black Panther movement to the forefront of neoconservatism. They operate the Los Angeles-based Center for the Study of Popular Culture and publish the magazine Heterodoxy, in which these essays first appeared. They are the authors of Destructive Generation, and the bestselling political biographies The Kennedys, The Rockefellers, and The Fords. David Horowitz's memoirs, Radical Son, has recently been published by The Free Press.