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.
In past election seasons, Stanley Kurtz's investigative journalism warned us about what was in store for us, and Stanley's wholly original work includes taking on the College Board.
Kate O'Beirne
PUBLICATIONS
Massive Government Overreach: Obama’s AFFH Rule Is Out
Published in National Review Online on July 8, 2015
AFFH: Admission of Stealth Caught on Video
Published in National Review Online on June 15, 2015
Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing: Sleeper Presidential Campaign Issue
Published in National Review Online on June 10, 2015
55 Scholars Protest AP U.S. History Changes
Published in National Review Online on June 2, 2015
Hillary Clinton’s Common Core Problem
Published in National Review Online on April 15, 2015
Democrat Divinity Schools
Published in National Review Online on April 13, 2015
AP U.S. History Battle Hits Georgia
Published in National Review Online on March 23, 2015
When Hillary’s Server Meets Obama’s Pen
Published in National Review Online on March 11, 2015
Hillary Clinton’s Poor Judgment
Published in National Review Online on March 5, 2015
The Lessons of Hillary Clinton’s Secrecy
Published in National Review Online on March 3, 2015
Let’s Embrace Competition In Advanced-Placement Testing
Published in Washington Post on March 1, 2015
Testimony Before the Georgia State Legislature On AP U.S. History
Published in Testimony on February 18, 2015
I Dare You to Impeach Me
Published in National Review Online on November 21, 2014
A Hard Left for High-School History
Published in National Review on October 30, 2014
Racist Telephone Poles
Published in National Review Online on October 21, 2014
Time to Break the College Board’s AP Testing Monopoly
Published in National Review Online on October 2, 2014
Why Hillary’s Alinsky Letters Matter
Published in National Review Online on September 22, 2014
Time to Oppose the AP U.S. History Exam is Now
Published in Dallas Morning News on September 15, 2014
Why the College Board Demoted the Founders
Published in National Review Online on September 9, 2014
Déjà Two
Published in Claremont Review of Books - Summer 2014 issue on September 3, 2014
How the College Board Politicized U.S. History
Published in National Review Online on August 25, 2014
D’Souza’s America and Our Schools
Published in National Review Online on July 7, 2014
Time for Congressional Hearings On Common Core
Published in National Review Online on June 9, 2014
The Commencement Speech That Could: Mary Eberstadt at Seton Hall
Published in National Review Online on May 19, 2014
The Truth About Obama’s ‘Catholic Roots’
Published in National Review Online on March 23, 2014
Ecologism: The Campus Cult of Victimhood
Published in Academic Questions on March 13, 2014
D’Souza’s Case and My Role in His Film
Published in National Review Online on February 3, 2014
The Wannabe Oppressed
Published in National Review Online on October 16, 2013
Divestment du Jour
Published in National Review on October 14, 2013
The Radicalism of Bill de Blasio
Published in National Review Online on September 23, 2013
Theory of Evolution
Published in Claremont Review of Books on September 16, 2013
This Was a Samantha Power Speech
Published in National Review Online on September 10, 2013
Public Opinion and the Syria Strike
Published in National Review Online on September 7, 2013
The Frightening Truth About Syria’s WMDs
Published in National Review Online on September 3, 2013
The Wrong Red Line
Published in National Review Online on August 28, 2013
Obama’s Secret Weapon: Henrietta Lacks
Published in National Review Online on August 19, 2013
Meet TOD: The Way Obama Wants You to Live
Published in National Review Online on August 12, 2013
Regionalism: Obama’s Quiet Anti-Suburban Revolution
Published in National Review Online on July 30, 2013
Conservative Media Predicted Obama’s First-Amendment Scandals
Published in National Review Online on May 29, 2013
Swarthmore Spinning Out of Control
Published in National Review Online on May 13, 2013
Acculturation Without Assimilation
Published in National Review on May 20, 2013
Boston and Immigration Reform: Yes, It’s Relevant
Published in National Review Online on April 20, 2013
What’s the Matter With Vassar?
Published in National Review Online on April 4, 2013
Fossil-Fuel Divestment
Published in National Review Online on March 4, 2013
Obama’s Plan for Ohio
Published in National Review Online on October 8, 2012
Romney’s New Strategy
Published in National Review Online on September 25, 2012
Should the White House Control What Your Kids Learn?
Published in Fox News Opinion on September 7, 2012
How Obama Is Robbing The Suburbs To Pay For The Cities
Published in Forbes.com on August 13, 2012
Obama’s Welfare Free Lunch
Published in National Review Online on August 8, 2012
Burn Down the Suburbs?
Published in National Review Online on August 1, 2012
Obama’s Third-Party History
Published in National Review Online on June 7, 2012
Perry and the Ponzis
Published in National Review Online on September 12, 2011
Our Dance With Europe
Published in National Review Online on August 8, 2011
For a New Republican Foreign Policy
Published in National Review Online on June 18, 2011
On Medicare, Go on Offense
Published in National Review Online on June 14, 2011
Pro-Palestinian-in-Chief
Published in National Review Online on May 26, 2011
Israel and Obama’s Radical Past
Published in National Review Online on May 20, 2011
The Acronym That Ate Health Care
Published in National Review on May 16, 2011
Bin Laden Dies: The War on Terror Lives
Published in National Review Online on May 2, 2011
IPAB, Obama, and Socialism
Published in National Review Online on April 18, 2011
Congressional GOP Gets One Right
Published in National Review Online on April 14, 2011
Samantha Power’s Power
Published in National Review Online on April 5, 2011
President Reticent
Published in National Review Online on March 22, 2011
A Frightful Democracy
Published in National Review on March 7, 2011
Obama's Past Tells the Truth
Published in Ricochet on February 28, 2011
Who’s Polarizing America?
Published in National Review Online on February 18, 2011
Where is Obama Leading Us?
Published in National Review Online on February 15, 2011
Frances Fox Piven’s Violent Agenda
Published in National Review Online on January 24, 2011
Obama, Pragmatic Socialist
Published in National Review Online on December 21, 2010
David Frum’s Wrong Direction
Published in National Review Online on December 9, 2010
David Frum, Speech Policeman
Published in National Review Online on December 6, 2010
Radical-in-Chief
Published in FrontPage Magazine on November 8, 2010
Radical in the White House
Published in National Review Online on October 28, 2010
Obama’s Radical Past
Published in National Review Online on October 12, 2010
UCLA Tests Congress
Published in National Review Online on March 3, 2009