“Brain-Dead” No More By Abe Greenwald

Dramatist David Mamet is a proud flip-flopper. In a Village Voice must-read, Mamet commits the bravest act known to a celebrity thinker: he changes his mind in public. No longer able to reconcile his 1960’s-born “everything is always wrong” worldview with the “rather wonderful and privileged circumstances” of American life, he has renounced his inner “brain-dead liberal.” Mamet on his moment of revelation: “We were riding along and listening to NPR. I felt my facial muscles tightening, and the words beginning to form in my mind: Shut the f__k up”.

In an aside, Mamet recalls how he once won a New Yorker contest:

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