Stanley Kurtz, born on September 23, 1953, hails from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Kurtz is notoriously private about his personal life in order to to stave off hate mail and excessive media attention. After completing his undergraduate studies at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, Kurtz pursued a PhD in social anthropology at Harvard University. Kurtz did his research and field work in India and was a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Kurtz later taught at Harvard, where he has won several teaching awards for his work with the Great Books Program. He was also a Dewey Prize Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Chicago. Currently, Kurtz is a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a think tank based in Washington, D.C. Kurtz’s research into various policies is often cited on the Senate floor when related issues are discussed and debated. Kurtz is not only a name mentioned in political debate, but he is also a contributor to publications and news panels. His writings have appeared in National Review, Policy Review, The Weekly Standard, The Wall Street Journal, and Commentary. Stanley Kurtz has also presented his views in three books authored by him: Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism (2010), Spreading the Wealth: How Obama is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities (2012), and, most recently, The Lost History of Western Civilization (2020).