Stanley Kurtz

Stanley Kurtz
Born
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Academic background
Alma materHaverford College
Harvard University
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity 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]

Career

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).

Works

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]

Partisanship Out of Civics Act (POCA)

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]

References

  1. ^ "Stanley Kurtz". eppc.org. Ethics and Public Policy Center. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
  2. ^ Jewish Daily Forward: "Peaceful, Gradualist ... and Radical?" By Gene Koprowski January 12, 2011
  3. ^ a b "Stanley Kurtz". Hudson Institute. Retrieved 2008-11-02.
  4. ^ "Stanley Kurtz". Ethics and Public Policy Center. Archived from the original on 2008-11-03. Retrieved 2008-11-02.
  5. ^ Kurtz, Stanley (February 15, 2021). "Partisanship Out of Civics Act". National Association of Scholars. Retrieved October 22, 2021.
  6. ^ "2021-2022 Bill 4392: Partisanship Out of Civics Act". South Carolina General Assembly. 124th Session, 2021-2022. May 23, 2021. Retrieved October 22, 2021.
  7. ^ "House Bill 3079", Legislature of the State of Texas, June 15, 2021
  8. ^ Rawshan, Ray; Gibbons, Alexandra (July 2, 2021). "Why are states banning critical race theory?". Brookings. Retrieved October 22, 2021.
  9. ^ Kurtz, Stanley (March 22, 2021). "NAS Debuts Coalition to Stop Action Civics". Retrieved October 22, 2021.


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