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Playwright David Mamet wrote an election-season piece for the Village Voice, provocatively titled "Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal.'" "Brain-dead liberal" was the moniker he had been applying to himself in interior monologues--even as he thought of NPR as "National Palestinian Radio." America's social classes, he now realized, were "mobile, not static, [the latter of] which is the Marxist view." He found himself reading Thomas Sowell, "our greatest contemporary philosopher." The upshot? Mamet used to hold ...