
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.
Cultural Cluelessness
Stanley Kurtz
The trouble with conservatives is that they don’t understand other cultures. Conservatives naively see the world through American eyes. On…
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National Review Online / September 7, 2007
Saudi in the Classroom
Stanley Kurtz
Unless we counteract the influence of Saudi money on the education of the young, we’re going to find it very…
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National Review Online / July 25, 2007
Doc Jihad, Part II
Stanley Kurtz
Terrorist doctors? There’s nothing unusual here, I’m sorry to say. On the contrary, in the universe of Islamist radicalism, professional…
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National Review Online / July 11, 2007
Doc Jihad
Stanley Kurtz
How could doctors, pledged to heal, conspire to murder and maim? In the wake of the foiled British terror plots,…
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National Review Online / July 10, 2007
Immigration Crackdown
Stanley Kurtz
In a move that will surprise — maybe even shock — America’s conservatives, the president has apparently decided to put…
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National Review Online / June 25, 2007
European Lessons
Stanley Kurtz
Can uncontrolled immigration kill a continent? According to Walter Laqueur, it already has. Laqueur, an historian who’s spent a lifetime…
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National Review Online / June 6, 2007
Look to Europe
Stanley Kurtz
Let’s take a moment to focus on what’s positive in the latest immigration proposal…from Norway, that is. (Sorry, nothing much…
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National Review Online / May 29, 2007
Defeat in Victory
Stanley Kurtz
Don’t take it from me. Listen to the liberal San Francisco Chronicle: Kennedy is “among the craftiest lawmakers in the…
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National Review Online / May 24, 2007
Reeducation Camp
Stanley Kurtz
Why do people see campus “political correctness” so differently? Conservatives know it’s a problem. Even some on the Left recognize…
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National Review Online / May 23, 2007
Title Bout
Stanley Kurtz
In the fall of 2001, Middle East scholar Martin Kramer published Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern…
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National Review Online / April 2, 2007