Mamet, No Longer a “Brain Dead Liberal,” loves Thomas Sowell
By Sam Schneider | March 12th, 2008Incredible. In a Whittaker Chambers-level about face, David Mamet gushes about Thomas Sowell:
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.
And that’s in the pages of the Village Voice no less (?!) If your mind is not sufficiently blown you’ll want to read the whole thing.
Roger Kimball says “it gives one faith in human nature”:
Mamet’s account of his achievement of what a friend of mine calls “political maturity” is noteworthy. It is a chrysalis-to-butterfly evolution I’ve witnessed often in intelligent people of good will and sound instincts. “I took the liberal view for many decades,” Mamet admits, “but I believe I have changed my mind.”
Who’s next? Kushner, Nichols? Babs?
