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Stephen L. Carter

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The Resume

    (October 26, 1954- )
    Born in Washington, District of Columbia
    Middle name is Lisle
    Law professor at Yale University
    Author of 'Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby' (1991), 'The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion' (1991), and 'The Dissent of the Governed: A Meditation on Law, Religion, and Loyalty' (1998)
    Wrote the novels 'The Emperor of Ocean Park (2002),' 'New England White (2007),' 'Palace Council (2008),' 'Jericho's Fall (2009),' 'The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln (2012),' 'The Church Builder (2013),' and 'Back Channel (2014)'
    Other books include 'Civility: Manners, Morals, and the Etiquette of Democracy' (1999), 'God's Name in Vain: The Wrongs and Rights of Religion in Politics' (2001), 'The Violence of Peace: America's Wars in the Age of Obama' (2011), and 'Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster' (2018)

Why he might be annoying:

    He made arguments against Affirmative Action the cornerstone of his his writing.
    As a student, when he made 780 on the math section of his SATs, he retook the test so that he could make 800 (overachiever!)
    He turned down admission to Harvard after being initially rejected when the University mistook him for white (he didn't check a box).
    As a kid his neighbors included Walter Mondale and Eugene McCarthy.
    His political ideology is all over the place and critics have variously labeled him, a conservative, a liberal, a neoconservative, a black conservative, and an 'honest liberal.'

Why he might not be annoying:

    He taught at Yale Law School.
    His grandmother worked on the legal team of New York prosecutors that convicted Lucky Luciano.
    He spent yearlong clerkships with two of history’s greatest civil rights lawyers and judges: Spottswood W. Robinson and Justice Thurgood Marshall.
    At Yale, as a student he won the prize for best oralist in the Thurmond Arnold Moot Court Competition.
    His literary output is versatile and includes suspense novels, historical fiction, Christian theology and law review articles.
    His first novel, The Emperor of Ocean Park, spent 11 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list in 2002.
    He was a long-time columnist for the Daily Beast and writes regularly for Bloomberg.
    Michael Nelson wrote of him: 'Carter is his own man. He fits no mold. And gradually, over a period of years, he has developed a large audience of readers and admirers who are drawn to his original way of looking at things: a mixture of liberalism and conservatism that transcends both extremes.'

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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 6 Votes: 83.33% Annoying