Another prominent figure newly sprung from intellectual captivity by the Left, playwright/director David Mamet struggles with the confusion & terror of leaving behind the ongoing lie of Liberalism/Socialism. Like David Horowitz, Whittaker Chambers among many others, the exhilaration of liberation is tempered by the sadness/regret/shame of having lived a lie of such proportions for so long.
The late lamented Christopher Hitchens belittles & savages Mamet’s “conversion” in the safe confines of the NY Times, providing Exhibit A for Mamet’s experience of the Left’s intractably blind, religious intolerance.
Listen to Mamet interviewed by Rush Limbaugh.
Read more about The God That Failed” and Whittaker Chambers’ “Witness.”
Read more about David Horowitz.