http://conversationalreading.com/david-mamet-closet-conservative/ Since 2004. The blog of the critic, writer, and editor, Scott Esposito Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:34:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://conversationalreading.com/david-mamet-closet-conservative/#comment-5383 Noises off: would you pay $125 to hear just 65 minutes of Stephen Sondheim? | marketblogs.org Fri, 20 Aug 2010 23:06:37 +0000 http://conversationalreading.com/?p=8623#comment-5383 [...] perfectly with my experience than that idealistic vision I called liberalism” comes from the Conversational Reading blog, which says: “On balance, I suppose that if you’re more interested in describing [...] [...] perfectly with my experience than that idealistic vision I called liberalism” comes from the Conversational Reading blog, which says: “On balance, I suppose that if you’re more interested in describing [...]

]]> http://conversationalreading.com/david-mamet-closet-conservative/#comment-5382 Cynthia Haven Wed, 04 Aug 2010 04:02:08 +0000 http://conversationalreading.com/?p=8623#comment-5382 "A few years ago he said to me that the old distinctions between left and right had become irrelevant to him, adding very mildly that fools and knaves of all kinds needed to be opposed and that what was really needed was 'a United Front against Bullshit.'" -- Christopher Hitchens on Robert Conquest “A few years ago he said to me that the old distinctions between left and right had become irrelevant to him, adding very mildly that fools and knaves of all kinds needed to be opposed and that what was really needed was ‘a United Front against Bullshit.’”
— Christopher Hitchens on Robert Conquest

]]> http://conversationalreading.com/david-mamet-closet-conservative/#comment-5381 J.C. Hallman Sun, 01 Aug 2010 20:29:54 +0000 http://conversationalreading.com/?p=8623#comment-5381 It strikes me as convenient that a writer like Mamet, after he's struck it rich, would come round to the wisdom of free-market philosophy. A sinking back toward conservative thought is a pretty typical kind of slide, but one expects writers to fall outside the "pretty typical" category. Interestingly, William James went the other way -- he started his life conservative, and grew toward liberalism as he aged... It strikes me as convenient that a writer like Mamet, after he’s struck it rich, would come round to the wisdom of free-market philosophy. A sinking back toward conservative thought is a pretty typical kind of slide, but one expects writers to fall outside the “pretty typical” category. Interestingly, William James went the other way — he started his life conservative, and grew toward liberalism as he aged…

]]> http://conversationalreading.com/david-mamet-closet-conservative/#comment-5380 David Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:40:19 +0000 http://conversationalreading.com/?p=8623#comment-5380 In my experience, it is free-market libertarianism that is the idealized version of how things "work" and not liberalism, which accepts the grey areas and ambiguities and works toward making life bearable. In my experience, it is free-market libertarianism that is the idealized version of how things “work” and not liberalism, which accepts the grey areas and ambiguities and works toward making life bearable.

]]> http://conversationalreading.com/david-mamet-closet-conservative/#comment-5379 Padraic Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:06:30 +0000 http://conversationalreading.com/?p=8623#comment-5379 He should just move to Europe. There his "liberalism" and "free-market understanding" would be synonymous. He should just move to Europe. There his “liberalism” and “free-market understanding” would be synonymous.

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