March 12, 2008 4:27 PM
David Mamet: Why I am no longer a brain-dead liberal
Wowie zowie!
It's always exciting to see someone actually take an honest look at their beliefs and be willing to act on what they discover:
David Mamet (much admired/acclaimed playwright/screenwriter) writes in the Village Voice today: Why I am no longer a brain-dead liberal
And I realized that the time had come for me to avow my participation in that America in which I chose to live, and that that country was not a schoolroom teaching values, but a marketplace."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.
That's just a teaser - read the whole thing here.
In case you're not familiar with Thomas Sowell or shelby Steele, here are a couple links:
Shelby Steele: The Loneliness of the Black Conservative
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Comments
I love Thomas Sowell! For anyone who has always wished they had taken an economics course, but never did, and wishes they knew stuff like supply, demand, money supply, price controls, etc., his books are great. They're introductions to economics that regular people can understand, and they show that the conservative idea of the world is actually the correct one.
I read David Mamet's piece earlier, too, and I was really surprised to see it. I'm glad they published it. And it's a relief to know that some people are seeing the light. Now if only the younger generation would...
Posted by: Sheila Gregoire | March 13, 2008 9:23 PM
Hi Barbara, thought you might like to see this article by Melanie Phillips where she addresses this issue of 'defection' very well.
Posted by: Clare | April 23, 2008 7:12 AM
