Wisdom before Passion: David Mamet on American Politics

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If you are getting caught up in the frenzy of the US elections and all of the triumphalism around Eliot Spitzer's spectacular self-destruction, you might share my despair at the partisan grease pit back into which American politics are sliding.

David Mamet offers some salve in his article "Why I am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal'" in The Village Voice. Mamet makes a reasoned and subtle appeal for a more even-headed approach to the world.

I could probably write a similar article "Why I Am No Longer a 'Cold-Hearted Conservative'," but I'd rather read my own political evolution into Mamet's writing.