Stanley Kurtz graduated from Haverford College and holds 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.

His writings on the family, feminism, homosexuality, affirmative action, and campus “political correctness” have appeared regularly for publications such as National Review, Policy Review, The Weekly Standard, the Wall Street Journal, and Commentary.