Why I Am No Longer a \u2018Brain-Dead Liberal\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\nCaution: some bad language, always a Mamet weakness.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
David Mamet is one of the few contemporary playwrights and screenwriters whose work, in my experience, is always worth taking in. He has announced, in an essay in the Village Voice, no less, that he has experienced a change of heart and is now a conservative. The piece is entitled Why I Am No Longer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"\n
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