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.
Obama, Pragmatic Socialist
Stanley Kurtz
“Is the president still a Marxist if he cuts taxes?” That's the question posed by Slate's David Weigel in his…
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National Review Online / December 21, 2010
David Frum’s Wrong Direction
Stanley Kurtz
David Frum has replied to my recent criticisms of his soon-to-be founded No Labels project. But my root-and-branch critique of his…
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National Review Online / December 9, 2010
David Frum, Speech Policeman
Stanley Kurtz
Last week, the distinguished liberal thinker and activist William Galston, along with an equally distinguished conservative counterpart, David Frum, announced…
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National Review Online / December 6, 2010
Radical-in-Chief
Stanley Kurtz
In an interview about his new book Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism, EPPC Senior Fellow Stanley Kurtz discusses why and how President Obama’s radical past matters.
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FrontPage Magazine / November 8, 2010
Radical in the White House
Stanley Kurtz
In an interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez about his new book Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism, EPPC Senior Fellow Stanley Kurtz discusses his new evidence about President Obama’s ties to Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, and socialism.
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National Review Online / October 28, 2010
Obama’s Radical Past
Stanley Kurtz
On the afternoon of April 1, 1983, Barack Obama, then a senior at Columbia University, made his way into the…
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National Review Online / October 12, 2010
UCLA Tests Congress
Stanley Kurtz
In August of 2008, Congress resolved a hard-fought five-year battle over the system of federal subsidies to programs of Middle East Studies. In past years, in addition to subsidizing language instruction, millions of federal dollars have funded intensely biased university-run programs of “public outreach.” In effect, the taxpayer has subsidized the public political agitation of university professors, even as those professors have discouraged their students from contributing badly needed language expertise to our defense and intelligence agencies. Wealthy Saudi donors now exercise substantial influence over these federallyfunded centers of Middle East Studies, often using them to promote Saudi-designed curricula for America’s K-12 students. Fortunately, Congress has at longlast taken steps to curb these abuses.
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National Review Online / March 3, 2009
What We Know About Obama
Stanley Kurtz
Reflecting on all that I've written about Barack Obama over these past six months, four inter-related points stand out: Obama's…
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National Review Online / November 3, 2008
Life of the New Party
Stanley Kurtz
A variety of evidence now indicates, with a high degree of likelihood, that Barack Obama was a member of the…
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National Review Online / October 30, 2008
Something New Here
Stanley Kurtz
During his first campaign for the Illinois state senate in 1995-96, Barack Obama was a member of, and was endorsed…
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National Review Online / October 20, 2008