Stanley Kurtz

American conservative writer — Hoover Institution and Ethics and Public Policy Center fellow — author of Radical-in-Chief (on Obama's socialist background) and The Lost History of Western Civilization — who has focused on education policy and culture war issues.

Creates the most thorough journalistic account of Obama's leftist organizational background — Radical-in-Chief drew on conference records, organizational documents, and interviews to argue that Obama's political formation was more ideologically radical than public presentation suggested.