Passings

One of the great Americans of our age, David Horowitz, died on Tuesday at the age of 86.

David Horowitz was one of the towering intellects and most perceptive thinkers of the late twentieth century and early twenty-first; he was also a man of unusual courage and remarkable vision. Though few people today realize it, David Horowitz was also one of the most influential people of our time, as he was one of the first leftists of any prominence to leave the leftist ranks and become a stalwart warrior for freedom.

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George Foreman, heavyweight boxing icon and business entrepreneur, died on Friday night.

He was 76 years old.

The International Boxing Hall of Famer’s family announced the news on his Instagram page.

Can you still get his Grill?

h/t Mauser.

Gene Hackman, the prolific Oscar-winning actor whose studied portraits ranged from reluctant heroes to conniving villains and made him one of the industry’s most respected and honored performers, has been found dead along with his wife at their home. He was 95.

Foul play was not suspected, but authorities did not release circumstances of their deaths and said an investigation was ongoing.

Grammy-winning singer Roberta Flack, best known for her hit songs Killing Me Softly with His Song and The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face, has died. She was 88.

Her publicist confirmed the legendary singer’s death on Monday, LBC reports.

Marianne Faithfull, a British singer-songwriter and 1960s pop star who reinvented herself as a new-wave artist and smoky-voiced chanteuse, channeling her struggles with drug abuse and personal loss into songs of torment, anger, sorrow and resilience, died Jan. 30 in London. She was 78.

Jimmy Carter, a no-frills and steel-willed Southern governor who was elected president in 1976, was rejected by disillusioned voters after a single term and went on to an extraordinary post-presidential life that included winning the Nobel Peace Prize, died Sunday at his home in Plains, Georgia, according to his son James E. Carter III, known as Chip. He was 100 and the oldest living U.S. president of all time.

h/t Mauser

The timing of Brock’s passing is poignant. It’s long been a Thanksgiving tradition for radio stations across the country to broadcast Guthrie’s 18-minute spoken word ramble that made “Alice” famous.