David Mamet “No Longer a Brain-Dead Liberal”
And the playwright explains why in a funny, extremely pleasurable essay for the Village Voice.
I’ve had a mute affinity for Mamet ever since his suggestion that Preston Sturges is a refutation of atheism, but this takes the cake. And just when you begin to wonder if he’s really being serious, he drops this:
“Aha,” you will say, and you are right. I began reading not only the economics of Thomas Sowell (our greatest contemporary philosopher) but Milton Friedman, Paul Johnson, and Shelby Steele, and a host of conservative writers, and found that I agreed with them: a free-market understanding of the world meshes more perfectly with my experience than that idealistic vision I called liberalism.
Hey-hey! Grab a chair and stay for dinner, won’t you, Dave?
I insist.
