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Playwright Mamet Changes His Mind

Posted on March 12th, 2008 2:00pm by Wick Allison
Filed under Entertainment, Politics

David Mamet, America’s greatest living playwright (Glengarry Glen Ross, among others.), will speak in Dallas in April at the Dallas Institute’s awarding of its annual Hiett Prize. As it happens, today he published a piece on why he is no longer a liberal, which is well worth the read.

(Warning: The Village Voice is apparently unprepared for the amount of hits the Mamet piece is getting, so the server may take a while.)

4 Comments to “Playwright Mamet Changes His Mind”

Brown Bess @ March 12th, 2008 at 2:39 pm

Great, another Dennis Miller flameout. I hope his writing skills don’t deteriorate accordingly….
MushMouth @ March 12th, 2008 at 3:07 pm

Too many logical fallacies to list in that piece.

Also anyone who thinks Bush is a conservative and Kennedy a liberal needs to take Poli Sci 101.
Justin @ March 12th, 2008 at 3:22 pm

I always feel dumber after reading Mamet (and he is one of the few writers that doesn’t come off as a ********* when using the word “jejune”), but it was a very interesting article, he’s a great writer.
Kirk @ March 12th, 2008 at 9:36 pm

I think Mamet has been possessed by Bill Buckley’s ghost. I wonder whether he’ll start using polysyllabic obscenities now.