Stanley Kurtz

Senior Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center

Stanley Kurtz is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a contributing editor at National Review Online. He has authored or co-authored model legislation adopted by several states on such topics as Campus Free Speech, Critical Race Theory, Civics, and Campus Intellectual Diversity. Mr. Kurtz has published two influential books on President Obama’s political history and policy agenda, one of which, Radical-in-Chief, was a New York Times best-seller. His latest book is The Lost History of Western Civilization (available as a free pdf). Mr. Kurtz received 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 at the University of Chicago. Mr. Kurtz will shortly release particularly ambitious model legislation designed to bring transformative change to our public universities.