Des Moines native Steven Mazie was our guest on Monday. In addition to teaching at Bard College in New York, he covers the U.S. Supreme Court for The Economist magazine.
Mazie opened our session by acknowledging that July 11 would have been his mother’s 90th birthday. She fled the holocaust and came to Mason City at the age of 16. In her final days, Ingrid Mazie passed on words of wisdom to her family that has become a mantra, and he keeps her words in mind as the nation is amid democracy in peril.
Watch the discussion. It is chilling. Democracy is in peril.
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Next Monday will be an open discussion (once a talk show host, always a talk show host, I guess). Or, I will have a mental health expert talk about the psychological impact these national issues have on us.
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Steven Mazie, The Economist