Well-known American author, playwright and film director David Mamet [1] announced [2] last week that he is no longer a “brain-dead liberal.” He now believes in free market thinkers such as Thomas Sowell [3] who he calls “our greatest contemporary philosopher.”
Wall Street Journal columnist Daniel Henninger wonders [4], “If David Mamet says he can’t take it anymore, can others be far behind?”
Without making brain-dead jokes, what arguments and evidence do you think will help convince other liberals to see the light, and listen more to free market thinkers?
Steve Buckstein [5] is Senior Policy Analyst and founder of Cascade Policy Institute [6], a Portland-based think tank.