IN 2008 David Mamet, an American playwright, essayist, screenwriter and director (best known for his brilliant play, "Glengarry Glen Ross"), wrote a scathing article in New York's Village Voice under the title "Why I Am No Longer a Brain-Dead Liberal". It was a bracing shock to the paper's earnestly liberal readership, which was challenged by such Mamet apercus as "...tallying up the ledger in those things which affect me and in those things I observe, I am hard-pressed to see an instance where the intervention of the government led to much beyond sorrow."
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