The National Review has a must-read cover story on David Mamet’s (de)evolution toward conservatism, and despite my loathing of everything the magazine stands for, Andrew Ferguson does a marvelous job of putting Mamet’s beliefs into context, and exposing his subject’s reasonings and inconsistencies. And that’s what catches my eye. For as something of an idiosyncratic liberal (my sympathy for …
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May 15 2011
David Mamet Exchanges One Herd for Another
Tags: david mamet, Politics, theatre, Writing
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