Apparently playwright David Mamet has become a conservative. The reasons for his move right ring true, essentially giving up an idealist view of the world for a tragic view. But am I the only one who reads this piece and finds it a little too good to be true? Mamet's conversion seems so thorough and his new found conservatism so conventional it sounds like, dare I say it, he's playing a part. I mean, I like Thomas Sowell, but is Sowell really our "greatest contemporary philosopher" as Mamet claims?
Mamet just got done writing a play in which two characters, a conservative and liberal, argue out their politics. Could it be that Mamet, in a brilliant marketing ploy, is playing that conservative character in public? Maybe. And if not, Mr. Mamet, we appreciate your mugging by reality.
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