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Another convert from the dark side

by @ 6:07 am on May 15, 2011. Filed under Politics

David Horowitz did it, so did Christopher Hitchens. Now David ‘F’ Mamet has realized the errors of his ways and rethought his political philosophy.

Andrew Ferguson chronicles the journey in this Weekly Standard piece.

“The question occurs to me quite a lot: What do liberals do when their plans have failed? What did the writers do when their plans led to unemployment, their own and other people’s? One thing they can’t do is admit they failed. Why? To admit failure would endanger their position in the herd.”

The author first gave a glimpse of his change of heart in a 2008 Village Voice article Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal’.

Mamet expands in his forthcoming book The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture

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