The conservative scholar who lit a match to the US right’s education wars

Stanley Kurtz’s crusade against ‘woke civics’ in schools has shaped Republican bills across the US

When two US senators – a Texas Republican and a Delaware Democrat – introduced a bill in June 2022 to expand grants for civics education, most observers saw it as something of an olive branch between the parties.

But despite initial momentum, three now-familiar letters stopped the bill in its tracks: CRT.