Scott Horton (radio host)

Scott Horton is an American radio host and author.

Scott Horton
Horton in 2019
NationalityAmerican
OccupationAuthor, podcaster, radio host
OrganizationAntiwar Radio, The Libertarian Institute
Spouse(s)Larisa Alexandrovna Horton
WebsiteScottHorton.org

Career

Writing and broadcasting

Horton hosts Antiwar Radio for Pacifica Radio's KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles,[1] as well as the podcast The Scott Horton Show.[1] Horton has conducted over 5,000 interviews since 2003.[1] He is also the director of the Libertarian Institute.[1]

Horton is the editorial director of the non-interventionist news portal Antiwar.com.[1] He was previously the host of Say It Ain't So on Free Radio Austin 97.1 FM, the Weekend Interview Show and the KAOS Report on Radio KAOS 95.9 FM, for which he won The Austin Chronicle's Best of Austin award in 2007 for "Best Iraq War Coverage".[2]

Horton's book Fool's Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan (2017) is an account of the War in Afghanistan since 2001, which argues that the United States should end its presence in the country.[3] Philip Giraldi of The American Conservative described the work as a "masterful account of America’s prolonged Afghan engagement."[4] Writing in The Hill, Young Americans for Liberty president Cliff Maloney said The Washington Post's publication of the Afghanistan Papers in December 2019 validated Horton's thesis in Fool's Errand that Osama bin Laden "must have died content, knowing that his plan to bog the U.S. down in such a long, bloody and expensive war… was at the very pinnacle of its success at the time he was finally put down".[5] A presentation on Fool’s Errand delivered to the Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania was featured on C-SPAN's Book TV series in 2018.[6]

Politics

In late 2019, Horton joined the Libertarian Party to support Jacob Hornberger’s presidential campaign.[7]

Personal life

Horton is married to investigative reporter Larisa Alexandrovna.[1]

Works
  • Fool's Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan (2017)[8]
  • The Great Ron Paul: The Scott Horton Show Interviews 2004–2019 (2019)[9]
gollark: I could possibly help with a stdlib of some sort.
gollark: Stick some of the imports and stuff into a ñîçè library.
gollark: Your mistake is in setting it up so *you* pay for the food.
gollark: What if you hire unpaid interns?
gollark: Use cofunctors instead.

References
  1. "About". The Scott Horton Show. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  2. "Best of Austin 2007", The Austin Chronicle
  3. "Book: Time for the U.S. to get out of Afghanistan". sanduskyregister.com. Retrieved April 9, 2020.
  4. "'Fool's Errand': A Guide to the New Forgotten War". The American Conservative. Retrieved April 9, 2020.
  5. Maloney, Cliff (January 5, 2020). "Five lessons Afghanistan teaches us about Iran". The Hill. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
  6. "[Fool's Errand] | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org. Retrieved April 10, 2020.
  7. "I Just Joined the Libertarian Party", The Scott Horton Show
  8. Scott Horton, 2017, Fool's Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan, The Libertarian Institute (ISBN 1548650218)
  9. Scott Horton, 2019, The Great Ron Paul: The Scott Horton Show Interviews 2004–2019, The Libertarian Institute (ISBN 1733647317)


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