Steven Mazie
Professor of Political Studies, BHSEC-Manhattan | Supreme Court Correspondent, The Economist
Steven V. Mazie is Professor of Political Studies at Bard High School Early College-Manhattan and Supreme Court Correspondent for The Economist. He holds an A.B. in Government from Harvard College and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan. Mazie’s recent publications include “Up from Colorblindness: Equality, Race and the Lessons of Ricci v. DeStefano” (2011), “Rawls on Wall Street” at the New York Times (2011),“Equality, Race and Gifted Education: An Egalitarian Critique of Admission to New York City’s Specialized High Schools” (2009) and Israel’s Higher Law: Religion and Liberal Democracy in the Jewish State (2006). He has taught at the University of Michigan (1998), New York University (2001) and Bard College (2005, 2011).
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“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.” ― William Jamesrn
Religious freedom is a crucial right, but it can go too far.
It's no mean task to admit we're wrong or to pinpoint the cause of our intellectual errors. But we can try. Darwin is proof that it can be done.
With opposition to Obamacare waning, Republicans need a new issue to propel them toward November and beyond.
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Want to tell which of your Facebook friends are brightening your day, and which are bringing you down? There's an app for that.
Take a guess: what percentage of the world's nuclear weapons would cause the deaths of one billion people?
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Rep. Paul Ryan's budget proposal is like offering to buy somebody's house for a nickel and snarl.
It's a delicious treat to watch godless libertarians rise to the defense of Protestant evangelicals this week.
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A friend of mine recently posted a link to one of the hilarious articles detailing the bone-headed Olympic Games preparations in Sochi and asked, tongue not really in cheek, “Did no […]
Fear of class warfare is making some wealthy people bug out in outlandishly ridiculous ways.
This map shows that your chances of rising above your birth class vary tremendously depending on where you live.
Two months before he was assassinated, Martin Luther King, Jr. imagined what would be said at his funeral. Not a bad idea for all of us.
This quiz aims to predict your political leanings by gauging your attitudes toward pets, pornography and more.
The dream of overturning Roe v. Wade may yet come to pass for abortion opponents. But as state-level restrictions on the right to abortion continue to mount, the anti-abortion movement is steadily chipping away at the spirit of Roe while it remains on the books.
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Today marks the first major legal setback for the NSA wiretapping program.