Stanley Kurtz
Senior Fellow
Stanley Kurtz is a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Beyond his work with Education and American Ideals, Mr. Kurtz is a key contributor to American public debates on a wide range of issues from K–12 and higher education reform, to the challenges of democratization abroad, to urban-suburban policies, to the shaping of the American left’s agenda. Mr. Kurtz has written on these and other issues for various journals, particularly National Review Online (where he is a contributing editor).
Stanley Kurtz is a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. On a wide range of issues, from K–12 and higher education reform, to the challenges of democratization abroad, to urban-suburban policies, to the shaping of the American left’s agenda, Mr. Kurtz is a key contributor to American public debates. Mr. Kurtz has written on these and other issues for various journals, particularly National Review Online (where he is a contributing editor).
Mr. Kurtz has published two influential books on President Obama’s political history and policy agenda: Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism (Threshold) and Spreading the Wealth: How Obama is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities (Sentinel). He has also led the campaign to reform federal subsidies to academic programs of “area studies” under Title VI of the Higher Education Act, and has co-authored model campus free speech legislation adopted by several states.
Mr. Kurtz’s latest book, The Lost History of Western Civilization (National Association of Scholars), offers both a critique of deconstructionist history and a new way of looking at America’s cultural conflicts. (A free pdf of the book can be downloaded here.)
Mr. Kurtz received his undergraduate degree from Haverford College and his Ph.D. in social anthropology from Harvard University. He later taught at Harvard, winning several teaching awards for his work in a Great Books Program. He was also Dewey Prize Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Chicago.
On Medicare, Go on Offense
Stanley Kurtz
President Obama's leftist ideology is killing the economy, rationing health care, and trashing the Constitution. That is the winning answer…
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National Review Online / June 14, 2011
Pro-Palestinian-in-Chief
Stanley Kurtz
It’s time to revisit the issue of President Obama’s Palestinian ties. During his time in the Illinois state senate, Obama…
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National Review Online / May 26, 2011
Israel and Obama’s Radical Past
Stanley Kurtz
Does President Obama’s radical past tell us anything significant about his stance on Israel today? Perhaps more important, do the…
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National Review Online / May 20, 2011
The Acronym That Ate Health Care
Stanley Kurtz
The 2012 election, and the existence of a free health-care market in this country, could well depend on a little-known…
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National Review / May 16, 2011
Bin Laden Dies: The War on Terror Lives
Stanley Kurtz
This is a great day for America: a moment for pride in our intelligence services, our military planners, and the…
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National Review Online / May 2, 2011
IPAB, Obama, and Socialism
Stanley Kurtz
They’re back. Rationing, death panels, socialism, all those nasty old words that helped bring Republicans victory in 2010, and that…
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National Review Online / April 18, 2011
Congressional GOP Gets One Right
Stanley Kurtz
As conservatives confront the failure of the budget deal to live up to expectations, let’s have a look at one…
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National Review Online / April 14, 2011
Samantha Power’s Power
Stanley Kurtz
A member of the president's National Security Council who shares Noam Chomsky's foreign-policy goals? An influential presidential adviser whom 1960s…
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National Review Online / April 5, 2011
President Reticent
Stanley Kurtz
Obama doesn’t tell you what he’s thinking. He keeps his motives to himself. Cherished long-term ideological goals are advanced as…
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National Review Online / March 22, 2011
A Frightful Democracy
Stanley Kurtz
What if the fundamental terms of our debate over Egypt’s revolution are wrong? Supposedly, the revolt that toppled Egyptian president…
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National Review / March 7, 2011