Stanley Kurtz | |
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Born | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Haverford College Harvard University |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Chicago Harvard University |
Stanley Kurtz is an American conservative commentator, author and a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He has taught at Harvard University and the University of Chicago. He is also a contributing editor to National Review. [1]
Kurtz was born to a Jewish family [2] and graduated from Haverford College and earned a Ph.D. in social anthropology from Harvard University. He did his field work in India and taught at Harvard and the University of Chicago.
Kurtz is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a former adjunct fellow with Hudson Institute, with a special interest in America's " culture wars." He has published extensively on family life, child rearing, religion, and psychology in various parts of the world. [3]
He is the education writer for the National Review and is an active member of the National Association of Scholars (NAS).
His writings on the family, feminism, homosexuality, affirmative action, and campus " political correctness" have appeared in National Review, Policy Review, The Weekly Standard, The Wall Street Journal, and Commentary. [3] [4]
His February 15, 2021 model act, published by the NAS, entitled Partisanship Out of Civics Act (POCA), [5] has been cited by state legislatures when they draft bills to limit the teaching of critical race theory in schools, such as in South Carolina, [6] and Texas. [7] [8] Kurtz supported the NAS Coalition to prevent the politicization of civic education. [9]