I’ve mentioned before that part of what initially put Zohran Mamdani on my radar is that I’m a big reader and long-time fan of the work of his father Mahmood Mamdani. As if I couldn’t love the father anymore, I just read the following story in Chalkbeat. It turns out that Zohran Mamdani’s favorite teacher in high school was Mark Kagan, brother of Supreme Court Justice Elana Kagan. Chalkbeat reports: When Mamdani was a student in Kagan’s 10th grade global history course, his father, Mahmood Mamdani, arrived at a parent conference frustrated with his son’s performance. “He was grousing [that] Zohran was getting just a 95,” Kagan recalled. “Like, ‘Why isn’t he working harder? He could be doing better than this.’” […]