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| david mamet political views: The Secret Knowledge David Mamet, 2011-06-02 David Mamet has been a controversial, defining force in nearly every creative endeavor-now he turns his attention to politics. In recent years, David Mamet realized that the so-called mainstream media outlets he relied on were irredeemably biased, peddling a hypocritical and deeply flawed worldview. In 2008 Mamet wrote a hugely controversial op-ed for the Village Voice, Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal', in which he methodically attacked liberal beliefs, eviscerating them as efficiently as he did Method acting in his bestselling book True and False. Now Mamet employs his trademark intellectual force and vigor to take on all the key political issues of our times, from religion to political correctness to global warming. The legendary playwright, author, director, and filmmaker pulls no punches in his art or in his politics. And as a former liberal who woke up, Mamet will win over an entirely new audience of others who have grown irate over America's current direction. |
| david mamet political views: The Wicked Son David Mamet, 2009-09-15 David Mamet's interest in anti-Semitism is not limited to the modern face of an ancient hatred but encompasses as well the ways in which many Jews have internalized that hatred. Using the metaphor of the Wicked Son at the Passover seder (the child who asks, What does this story mean to you?) Mamet confronts what he sees as an insidious predilection among some Jews to exclude themselves from the equation and to seek truth and meaning anywhere--in other religions, political movements, mindless entertainment--but in Judaism itself. He also explores the ways in which the Jewish tradition has long been and still remains the Wicked Son in the eyes of the world. Written with the searing honesty and verbal brilliance that is the hallmark of Mamet's work, The Wicked Son is a powerfully thought-provoking look at one of the most destructive and tenacious forces in contemporary life. |
| david mamet political views: Oleanna David Mamet, 2012-03-28 In a terrifyingly short time, a male college instructor and his female student descend from a discussion of her grades into a modern reprise of the Inquisition. Innocuous remarks suddenly turn damning. Socratic dialogue gives way to heated assault. And the relationship between a somewhat fatuous teacher and his seemingly hapless pupil turns into a fiendishly accurate X ray of the mechanisms of power, censorship, and abuse. |
| david mamet political views: David Mamet I. Nadel, 2016-04-30 This comprehensive biography uses extensive theater and film archives to reveal Mamet's ideas on writing, acting, and directing, covering his beginnings in Chicago, his relationship to Judaism and reputation for machismo, as well as discussions of and excerpts from early plays and stories that have never before been referenced in print. |
| david mamet political views: American Individualism Margaret Hoover, 2012-08-15 A Fox News analyst argues for a redefinition of conservatism that will modernize outdated Republican ideas and enable a younger generation to embrace the party, defining her views about Individualism while contending that universal, conservative beliefs can be adapted to revitalize Republican political strength. |
| david mamet political views: Recessional David Mamet, 2022-04-05 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! “Savagery appeased can only grow. Once you give in to it, it must escalate, like a fire searching for air.” The man who won the Pulitzer Prize for GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS, who wrote the classic films THE VERDICT and WAG THE DOG sounds his alarm about the Visigoths at our gates. In RECESSIONAL he calls out, skewers, mocks, and, most importantly, dissects the virus of conformity which is now an existential threat to the West. A broad-ranging journey through history, the Bible, and literature, RECESSIONAL examines how politics and cultural attitudes about rebellion have shifted in the United States in the last generation. By screaming down freedom of thought and expression, Mamet explains, we kill invention and democracy – the foundations of security and growth. A wickedly funny, wistful and wry appeal to the free-thinking citizen, RECESSIONAL is a vital warning that if we don’t confront the cultural thuggery now, the commissars and their dupes will transform the Land of the Free into the dictatorship at which they aim. |
| david mamet political views: Dark Agenda David Horowitz, 2019-03-05 Read this disturbing but vital book. — Tucker Carlson From the New York Times bestselling BLITZ: Trump Will Smash the Left and Win author and leading conservative thinker comes DARK AGENDA, an extraordinary look into the left’s calculated efforts to create a godless, heathen American society — and how these efforts must be stopped. And it is written by David Horowitz, a Jew. In Dark Agenda: The War to Destroy Christian America, Horowitz warns that the rising attacks on Christians and their beliefs threaten all Americans — including Jews like himself. The liberal establishment and their radical allies envision a new millennium in which Christianity is banished, Horowitz argues. He says that Judeo-Christian values are at the very root of America’s democracy. Kill off such values and all of our freedoms could perish. Horowitz examines how our elites — increasingly secular and atheist — are pushing a radical agenda: How the left trashes Christian doctrines critical to the American Republic, much like radical Islam’s war on “infidel” cultures like ours. Why the left fights to keep prayer and religion out of public schools, and how those efforts fly in the face of Founding Father Thomas Jefferson’s intentions. How fanatical liberals helped create the religious right by targeting evangelicals and believing Catholics and other conservatives. How Barack Obama’s ultra-liberal agenda galvanized the anti-God, anti-religious left. The violent and shocking manifesto of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger who advocated the use of dynamite to promote “revolutionary solidarity.” Filled with stories that demonstrate the mind-numbing reasons behind the secular Left’s smug disdain for Christianity, Horowitz traces the history of religious liberty from the Founding Fathers to now. He shows how the Founding Fathers put aside their own skepticisms about God and religion to write The Declaration of Independence. Today, he writes Donald Trump’s “genuine love for his country” has galvanized Christians to fight the secular war waged against them — as the president has become a lightning rod for the radical left. David Horowitz’s powerful new book brings vital insights into the war against Christianity and names the global radicals, leftist Democrats, and money-hungry fat cats of Hollywood and Wall Street responsible for it. Finally, a clear and sensible American voice — one that is not Christian but Jewish — stands up to the twisted rantings of those who want to tear down faith and bedrock of American values. David Horowitz delivers an impassioned plea for the restoration of political sanity in America, a perspective that made America great by respecting the faiths of our fathers and mothers. “One of the most intellectually compelling and rational defenses of Christianity’s role in America. — Gov Mike Huckabee The Best Book on Politics for Christians in 2019 — The Stream |
| david mamet political views: Theatre David Mamet, 2010-04-07 If theatre were a religion, explains David Mamet in his opening chapter, many of the observations and suggestions in this book might be heretical. As always, Mamet delivers on his promise: in Theatre, the acclaimed author of Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed the Plow calls for nothing less than the death of the director and the end of acting theory. For Mamet, either actors are good or they are non-actors, and good actors generally work best without the interference of a director, however well-intentioned. Issue plays, political correctness, method actors, impossible directions, Stanislavksy, and elitists all fall under Mamet's critical gaze. To students, teachers, and directors who crave a blast of fresh air in a world that can be insular and fearful of change, Theatre throws down a gauntlet that challenges everyone to do better, including Mamet himself. |
| david mamet political views: November David Mamet, 2011-04-27 David Mamet's Oval Office satire depicts one day in the life of a beleaguered American commander-in-chief. It's November in a Presidential election year, and incumbent Charles Smith's chances for reelection are looking grim. Approval ratings are down, his money's running out, and nuclear war might be imminent. Though his staff has thrown in the towel and his wife has begun to prepare for her post-White House life, Chuck isn't ready to give up just yet. Amidst the biggest fight of his political career, the President has to find time to pardon a couple of turkeys—saving them from the slaughter before Thanksgiving—and this simple PR event inspires Smith to risk it all in attempt to win back public support. With Mamet's characteristic no-holds-barred style, November is a scathingly hilarious take on the state of America today and the lengths to which people will go to win. |
| david mamet political views: Three Uses Of The Knife David Mamet, 2020-10-01 Now published in the Bloomsbury Revelations series, this is a classic work on the power and importance of drama by renowned American playwright, screenwriter and essayist David Mamet. In this short but arresting series of essays, David Mamet explains the necessity, purpose and demands of drama. A celebration of the ties that bind art to life, Three Uses of the Knife is an enthralling read for anyone who has sat anxiously waiting for the lights to go up on Act 1. In three tightly woven essays of characteristic force and resonance, Mamet speaks about the connection of art to life, language to power, imagination to survival, public spectacle to private script. Self-assured and filled with autobiographical touches Three Uses of the Knife is a call to art and arms, a manifesto that reminds us of the singular power of the theatre to keep us sane, whole and human. |
| david mamet political views: The Anarchist David Mamet, 2013-02-05 A new drama by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Glengarry Glen Ross. |
| david mamet political views: The Woods David Mamet, 1979 |
| david mamet political views: Romance David Mamet, 2008-12-10 Pulitzer Prize—winning playwright David Mamet’s Romance is an uproarious, take-no-prisoners courtroom comedy that gleefully lampoons everyone from lawyers and judges, to Arabs and Jews, to gays and chiropractors. It’s hay fever season, and in a courtroom a judge is popping antihistamines. He listens to the testimony of a Jewish chiropractor, who’s a liar, according to his anti-Semitic defense attorney. The prosecutor, a homosexual, is having a domestic squabble with his lover, who shows up in court in a leopard-print thong. And all the while, a Middle East peace conference is taking place. Masterfully wielding the argot of the courtroom, David Mamet creates a world in microcosm in which shameless fawning, petty prejudices, and sheer caprice hold sway, and the noble apparatus of law and order degenerates into riotous profanity. |
| david mamet political views: Chicago David Mamet, 2018-02-27 A big-shouldered, big-trouble thriller set in mobbed-up 1920s Chicago—a city where some people knew too much, and where everyone should have known better—by the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of The Untouchables and Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright of Glengarry Glen Ross. Mike Hodge—veteran of the Great War, big shot of the Chicago Tribune, medium fry—probably shouldn’t have fallen in love with Annie Walsh. Then, again, maybe the man who killed Annie Walsh have known better than to trifle with Mike Hodge. In Chicago, David Mamet has created a bracing, kaleidoscopic page-turner that roars through the Windy City’s underground on its way to a thunderclap of a conclusion. Here is not only his first novel in more than two decades, but the book he has been building to for his whole career. Mixing some of his most brilliant fictional creations with actual figures of the era, suffused with trademark Mamet Speak, richness of voice, pace, and brio, and exploring—as no other writer can—questions of honor, deceit, revenge, and devotion, Chicago is that rarest of literary creations: a book that combines spectacular elegance of craft with a kinetic wallop as fierce as the February wind gusting off Lake Michigan. |
| david mamet political views: China Doll David Mamet, 2015-10-27 A major new work from the revered playwright of Glengarry Glen Ross. |
| david mamet political views: Political Correctness Geoffrey Hughes, 2011-09-13 Political Correctness “Geoffrey Hughes has brought together with great panache the very many manifestations of political correctness, both absurd and vicious, and shown how they express a single collective mind-set. His book establishes beyond doubt that there is such a phenomenon, that it has become dominant in our culture, and that it represents a growing tendency to censor public debate and to prevent people from questioning orthodoxies which we all know to be false.” Roger Scruton, American Enterprise Institute “What a joy this book is! Hughes’ study traces, with unflagging zest, the modern history of PC. Sumptuous in data, in judgment precise, this is the latest and fullest of Hughes’ series on the social history of language.” Walter Nash, Professor Emeritus, University of Nottingham Political Correctness is now an everyday phrase and part of the modern mindset. Everyone thinks they know what it means, but its own meaning constantly shifts. Its surprising origins have led to it becoming integrated into contemporary culture in ways that are both idealistic and ridiculous. Originally grounded in respect for difference and sensitivity to suffering, it has often become a distraction and even a silencer of genuine issues, provoking satire and parody. In this carefully researched, thought-provoking book, Geoffrey Hughes examines the trajectory of political correctness and its impact on public life. Exploring the origins, progress, content, and style of PC, Hughes’ journey leads us through authors as diverse as Chaucer, Shakespeare and Swift; Philip Larkin, David Mamet, and J.M. Coetzee; from nursery rhymes to Spike Lee films. Focusing on the historical, semantic, and cultural aspects of political correctness, this outstanding and unique work will intrigue anyone interested in this ongoing debate. |
| david mamet political views: I Myself Have Seen it Susanna Moore, 2003 The author interweaves her own memories of growing up in Honolulu in the 1950s and 6̕0s with a chronicle of Hawaiis̕ two-hundred-year encounter with the West, offering a celebration of the myth, culture, landscape, and music of Kauai, and revealing the rich Polynesians traditions that have shaped the modern island state. |
| david mamet political views: Sexual Perversity in Chicago and the Duck Variations David Mamet, 2014-10-03 David Mamet is one of America’s most celebrated playwrights. The author of plays, screenplays, poetry, essays, and children’s books, he has won many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Glengarry Glen Ross. The Obie award-winning Sexual Perversity in Chicago is about two office workers, Danny and Bernie, on the make in the swinging singles scene of the early 1970s. Danny meets Deborah in a library and soon they are not only lovers but roommates, and their story quickly evolves into a modern romance in all its sticky details. The Duck Variations is a dialogue between two old men sitting on a park bench. The conversation turns to the mating habits of ducks, but soon begins to reveal their feelings about natural law, friendship, and death. New York magazine has called The Duck Variations “a gorgeously written, wonderfully observant piece whose timing and atmosphere are close to flawless.” |
| david mamet political views: In Their Own Words David Savran, 1993-01-01 Includes: Lee Breuer, Christopher Durang, Richard Foreman, Maria Irene Fornes, Charles Fuller, John Guare, Joan Holden, David Henry Hwang, David Mamet, Emily Mann, Richard Nelson, Marsha Norman, David Rabe, Wallace Shawn, Stephen Sondheim, Megan Terry, Luis Valdez, Michael Weller, August Wilson and Lanford Wilson. |
| david mamet political views: The Conservative Sensibility George F. Will, 2019-06-04 The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist's astonishing and enthralling New York Times bestseller and Notable Book about how the Founders' belief in natural rights created a great American political tradition (Booklist) -- easily one of the best books on American Conservatism ever written (Jonah Goldberg). For more than four decades, George F. Will has attempted to discern the principles of the Western political tradition and apply them to America's civic life. Today, the stakes could hardly be higher. Vital questions about the nature of man, of rights, of equality, of majority rule are bubbling just beneath the surface of daily events in America. The Founders' vision, articulated first in the Declaration of Independence and carried out in the Constitution, gave the new republic a framework for government unique in world history. Their beliefs in natural rights, limited government, religious freedom, and in human virtue and dignity ushered in two centuries of American prosperity. Now, as Will shows, conservatism is under threat -- both from progressives and elements inside the Republican Party. America has become an administrative state, while destructive trends have overtaken family life and higher education. Semi-autonomous executive agencies wield essentially unaccountable power. Congress has failed in its duty to exercise its legislative powers. And the executive branch has slipped the Constitution's leash. In the intellectual battle between the vision of Founding Fathers like James Madison, who advanced the notion of natural rights that pre-exist government, and the progressivism advanced by Woodrow Wilson, the Founders have been losing. It's time to reverse America's political fortunes. Expansive, intellectually thrilling, and written with the erudite wit that has made Will beloved by millions of readers, The Conservative Sensibility is an extraordinary new book from one of America's most celebrated political writers. |
| david mamet political views: American Buffalo David Mamet, 1977 In a Chicago junk shop three small-time crooks plot to rob a man of his coin collection, the showpiece of which is a valuable Buffalo nickel. These high-minded grifters fancy themselves businessmen pursuing legitmate free enterprise. But the reality of the three--Donny, the oafish junk shop owner; Bobby, a young junkie Donny has taken under his wing; and Teach; a violently paranoid braggart--is that they are merely pawns caught up in their own game of last-chance, dead-end, empty pipe dreams. |
| david mamet political views: Three War Stories David Mamet, 2020-04-07 Spanning centuries and continents, Mamet uses war and its players to explore, among other themes, redemption and forgiveness as they unfold in the context of conflict in the form of three novellas. In The Redwing, the first of the three novellas, a 19th-century Secret Service naval officer turned prisoner, then novelist, and finally memoirist recounts his own transformations during the course of his service and imprisonment. The protagonist in Notes on Plain Warfare examines religion through the prism of the American Indian wars. Finally, The Handle and the Hold is a vivid, dialogue-driven tale of two ex-military men who steal a plane in the month before the Israeli War of Independence. |
| david mamet political views: Plays David Mamet, 1996 A selection of plays by the American playwrigth David Mamet. |
| david mamet political views: Politics by Other Means David Bromwich, 1994-01-01 Liberal education has been under siege in recent years. Far-right ideologues in journalism and government have pressed for a uniform curriculum that focuses on the achievements of Western culture. Partisans of the academic left, who hold our culture responsible for the evils of society, have attempted to redress imbalances by fostering multiculturalism in education. In this eloquent and passionate book a distinguished scholar criticizes these positions and calls for a return to the tradition of independent thinking that he contends has been betrayed by both right and left. Under the guise of educational reform, says David Bromwich, these groups are in fact engaging in politics by other means. Bromwich argues that rivals in the debate over education have one thing in common: they believe in the all-importance of culture. Each assumes that culture confers identity, decides the terms of every moral choice, and gives a meaning to life. Both sides therefore see education as a means to indoctrinate students in specific cultural and political dogmas. By contrast, Bromwich contends that genuine education is concerned less with culture than with critical thinking and independence of mind. This view of education is not a middle way among the political demands of the moment, says Bromwich. Its earlier advocates include Mill and Wollstonecraft, and its roots can be traced to such secular moralists as Burke and Hume. Bromwich attacks the anti-democratic and intolerant premises of both right and left--premises that often appear in the conservative guise of preserving the tradition on the one hand, or the radical guise of opening up the tradition on the other. He discusses the new academic fundamentalists and the politically correct speech codes they have devised to enforce a doctrine of intellectual conformity; educational policy as articulated by conservative apologists George Will and William Bennett; the narrow logic of institutional radicalism; the association between personal reflection and social morality; and the discipline of literary study, where the symptoms of cultural conflict have appeared most visibly. Written with the wisdom and conviction of a dedicated teacher, this book is a persuasive plea to recover a true liberal tradition in academia and government--through independent thinking, self-knowledge, and tolerance of other points of view. |
| david mamet political views: Gethsemane David Hare, 2013-04-18 Nothing is more important to a modern political party than fund-raising. But the values of the donors can't always coincide with the professed beliefs of the party. And family scandal within the cabinet has the potential to throw both the money-raisers and the money-spenders into chaos. This richly imagined ensemble play about British public life looks at the way business, media and politics are now intertwined to nobody's advantage, as, in an unforgiving world, one character after another passes through Gethsemane. Gethsemane, David Hare's fourteenth original play for the National Theatre, London, premiered in November 2008. |
| david mamet political views: Still the Best Hope Dennis Prager, 2012-04-24 Conservative radio host and syndicated columnist Dennis Prager provides a bold, sweeping look at the future of civilization with Still the Best Hope, and offers a strong, cogent argument for why basic American values must triumph in a dangerously uncertain world. Humanity stands at a crossroads, and the only alternatives to the “American Trinity” of liberty, natural rights, and the melting-pot ideal of national unity are Islamic totalitarianism, European democratic socialism, capitalist dictatorship, or global chaos if we should fail. America is Still the Best Hope, as this eminently sensible, profoundly inspiring volume so powerfully proves. |
| david mamet political views: Kabuki Democracy Eric Alterman, 2011-01-11 In this agenda-setting essay, journalist and historian Eric Alterman explains what is really happening with the Obama presidency. While Obama's many compromises have disappointed liberals, Alterman argues that these concessions are largely due to a political system that is rigged against progressive change. These structural impediments to democracy have made the keeping of Obama's campaign promises all but impossible. Brilliantly blending incisive political analysis with a clear agenda for change, Kabuki Democracy cuts through the clich's of conservative propaganda and lazy mainstream media analysis to demonstrate that genuine change will come to America only when people care enough to challenge the system. |
| david mamet political views: Heaven Can Indeed Fall Christopher H. Owen, 2021-09-27 Willmoore Kendall was a man against the world, a maverick, an iconoclast. His thoughts were profound, his countless enemies powerful, his personal life full of drama. Heaven Can Indeed Fall is the first full-length biography of Kendall and integrates the man with the teacher, thinker, and cold warrior. Once a Marxist, Kendall became a fearsome foe of global communism. He never apologized for supporting Joseph McCarthy. As the co-founder of National Review he helped turn the word liberal into an insult. A stormy petrel, Kendall was a man “who never lost an argument or kept a friend.” Yet he was one of the most effective and sensitive teachers of his age. His ideas shaped Cold War practices of intelligence analysis and psychological warfare. As an academic he became the premier American theorist for conservative populism. The recent reemergence of populist ideas among American conservatives makes understanding Kendall ever more imperative. This book shows how a child prodigy and bucolic boy scout became an ambitious intelligence analyst, razor-tongued polemicist and profound student of American politics. By knowing Kendall one can better understand Cold War America, and contemporary America as well. |
| david mamet political views: Dismantling America Thomas Sowell, 2010-08-10 Sowell delivers a broad-based and withering critique of America's current trajectory, in this collection of essays. |
| david mamet political views: They Knew They Were Right Jacob Heilbrunn, 2009-01-06 From its origins in 1930s Marxism to its unprecedented influence on George W. Bush's administration, neoconservatism has become one of the most powerful, reviled, and misunderstood intellectual movements in American history. But who are the neocons, and how did this obscure group of government officials, pundits, and think-tank denizens rise to revolutionize American foreign policy?Political journalist Jacob Heilbrunn uses his intimate knowledge of the movement and its members to write the definitive history of the neoconservatives. He sets their ideas in the larger context of the decades-long battle between liberals and conservatives, first over communism, and now over the war on terrorism. And he explains why, in spite of their misguided policy on Iraq, they will remain a permanent force in American politics. |
| david mamet political views: Killing Jesus Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, 2013-09-24 Millions of readers have thrilled to bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and historian Martin Dugard's Killing Kennedy and Killing Lincoln, page-turning works of nonfiction that have changed the way we read history. The basis for the 2015 television film available on streaming. Now the iconic anchor of The O'Reilly Factor details the events leading up to the murder of the most influential man in history: Jesus of Nazareth. Nearly two thousand years after this beloved and controversial young revolutionary was brutally killed by Roman soldiers, more than 2.2 billion human beings attempt to follow his teachings and believe he is God. Killing Jesus will take readers inside Jesus's life, recounting the seismic political and historical events that made his death inevitable - and changed the world forever. |
| david mamet political views: Arthur Miller for the Twenty-First Century Stephen Marino, David Palmer, 2020-02-27 Arthur Miller for the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Views of His Writings and Ideas brings together both established Miller experts and emerging commentators to investigate the sources of his ongoing resonance with audiences and his place in world theatre. The collection begins by exploring Miller in the context of 20th-century American drama. Chapters discuss Miller and Eugene O’Neill, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, David Mamet, and Sam Shepard, as well as thematic relationships between Miller’s ideas and the explosion of significant women and African American dramatists since the 1970s. Other essays focus more directly on interpretations of Miller’s individual works, not only plays but also essays and fiction, including a discussion of Death of a Salesman in China. The volume concludes by considering Miller and current cultural issues: his work for human rights, his depiction of American ideals of masculinity, and his anticipation of contemporary posthumanism. |
| david mamet political views: Righteous Indignation Andrew Breitbart, 2011-04-15 Brash, funny, fiery, and irreverent. -- Rush Limbaugh Known for his network of conservative websites that draws millions of readers everyday, Andrew Breitbart has one main goal: to make sure the liberally biased major news outlets in this country cover all aspects of a story fairly. Breitbart is convinced that too many national stories are slanted by the news media in an unfair way. In Righteous Indignations, Breitbart talks about how one needs to deal with the liberal news world head on. Along the way, he details his early years, working with Matt Drudge, the Huffington Post, and how Breitbart developed his unique style of launching key websites to help get the word out to conservatives all over. A rollicking and controversial read, Breitbart will certainly raise your blood pressure, one way or another. |
| david mamet political views: Largo Desolato Václav Havel, 1987 Professor Leopold Nettles, the hero of Largo Desolato, is the author of a book that contains a troublesome paragraph laying him open to arrest on charges of disturbing the intellectual peace. Pressed by the government to recant, Nettles is tortured by internal demons as well as external ones. Vaclav Havel has created a vivid and terrifying portrait of the writer in the totalitarian state that is as real and immediate as today s headlines. |
| david mamet political views: Conservatism Edmund Fawcett, 2022-04-05 Conservatism focuses on an exemplary core of France, Britain, Germany and the United States. It describes the parties, politicians and thinkers of the right, bringing out strengths and weaknesses in conservative thought--Provided by publisher. |
| david mamet political views: Tenured Radicals Roger Kimball, 2008 Since Tenured Radicals first appeared in 1990, it has achieved a stature as the leading critique of the ways in which the humanities are now taught and studied at American universities. Trenchant and witty, it lays bare the sham of what now passes for serious academic pursuit in too many circles. In this new edition, completely reset, Roger Kimball has brought the text up to date and has added a new Introduction. Those who have never read Tenured Radicals are in for a treat; others may find a second reading worth their while. Mr. Kimball names his enemies precisely.... This book will breed fistfights.-Roger Rosenblatt, New York Times Book Review. All persons serious about education should see it.-Allan Bloom, author of The Closing of the American Mind. Tenured Radicals is a withering critique.-Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World. A bravado performance of critical journalism...a vivid, up-to-the-minute account, alternately amusing and dismaying, of the takeover of the academy by ideology.-Robert Alter, Newsday. A stinging account.... The commonsense approach of Tenured Radicals provokes constant reflections and occasional laughter at the squirming victims.-Roger Shattuck, author of The Banquet Years. |
| david mamet political views: Patriots David Frum, 2012 America's first black president has just lost re-election. A new leader tries to pull the country out of a terrible recession - only to face a devilish plot from inside his own party. David Frum's darkly comic satire PATRIOTS is not only a warning about the future of American politics. It is a scorching, intimate explanation of why the U.S. political system has so badly failed the American people over the years just past. PATRIOTS tells the story of Walter Schotzke, the aimless young heir to America's largest mustard fortune. Walter is sent by his tough-minded grandmother to work in the office of a distinguished U.S. Senator. She hopes her otherwise worthless only grandchild might find purpose, and even appreciation for his country, from political service. Perhaps the job will also help Walter overcome the tragic loss of both his parents -- especially that of his famous father, a genuine American hero, whose example Walter can't ever hope to live up to.In Washington, Walter quickly proves to be a better student of the dark side of politics than he ever was at all the boarding schools he was thrown out of. He gains his education from a farcical faculty of blowhard radio hosts, outraged protestors, think-tank experts-for-hire, shady lobbyists, internet impressiaros, and the sexy but sinister talking heads of the Patriot News Network. Lunching and fundraising their luxurious way through economic depression and foreign war, the characters of PATRIOTS prosper by manipulating the fears and resentments of a country in crisis. Walter is used and abused - until, inadvertently and unexpectedly, he finds himself the unlikely hero of the angriest populist movement America has ever seen.It is not the experience Walter, or his grandmother, expected. Walter must make some tough decisions fast -- leading to the novel's surprising and hilarious conclusion. David Frum's PATRIOTS is part Lucky Jim, part Primary Colors -- told by one of the sharpest political observers of his generation. |
| david mamet political views: Speed-the-plow David Mamet, 1989 Charlie Fox has a terrific vehicle for a hot male movie star, and he has brought it to his friend Bobby Gould, head of production for a major film company. Both see the script as a ticket to the really big table where the power is. The star wants to do it; all they have to do is pitch it to their boss in the morning. Meanwhile, Bobby bets Charlie that he can seduce the secretary temp. As a ruse, he has given her a novel by some Eastern sissy writer that he is supposed to read before saying thanks but no thanks. She is determined that the novel, not the trite vehicle, should be the company's next project. When she does sleep with Bobby, he finds the experience is so transmogrifying that Charlie must plead with Bobby not to pitch the sissy film. - Publisher's note. |
| david mamet political views: After Nationalism Samuel Goldman, 2021-06-04 Nationalism is on the rise across the Western world, serving as a rallying cry for voters angry at the unacknowledged failures of globalization that has dominated politics and economics since the end of the Cold War. In After Nationalism, Samuel Goldman trains a sympathetic but skeptical eye on the trend, highlighting the deep challenges that face any contemporary effort to revive social cohesion at the national level. Noting the obstacles standing in the way of basing any unifying political project on a singular vision of national identity, Goldman highlights three pillars of mid-twentieth-century nationalism, all of which are absent today: the social dominance of Protestant Christianity, the absorption of European immigrants in a broader white identity, and the defense of democracy abroad. Most of today's nationalists fail to recognize these necessary underpinnings of any renewed nationalism, or the potentially troubling consequences that they would engender. To secure the general welfare in a new century, the future of American unity lies not in monolithic nationalism. Rather, Goldman suggests we move in the opposite direction: go small, embrace difference as the driving characteristic of American society, and support political projects grounded in local communities. |
| david mamet political views: A Life in the Theatre David Mamet, 1978 In a series of scenes we see two actors - a seasoned pofessional and a novice - backstage and onstage going through a cycle of roles and an entire wardrobe of costumes. |
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how does Mamet manipulate his reading and viewing audience into taking sides in a hot debate about sexual harassment, and whose position, if any, does he privilege? This thesis uses a …
MAMET ON MAMET: POLITICS AND POETICS IN OLEANNA …
Mamet on Mamet: Politics and Poetics in Oleanna, Race, The Anarchist, and China Doll ” aims to illuminate Mamet’s mature aesthetic through a close examination of four of his later plays.
AMERICAN DREAM AS REFLECTED IN DAVID MAMET’S …
This study is devoted to the analysis of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross based on Marxism point of view, in which it focuses on the power praxis portrayed within its story.
Mamet’s Men: Crisis of Masculinity in Modern Society as …
Oct 5, 2012 · David Mamet questions widespread notions of masculinity, and asks audiences and readers to reconsider them in the light of the new evidence presented in his plays.
David Mamet’s American Buffalo - IJELLH
David Mamet‘s tightly wrought 1975 play American Buffalo explores the theme of economic reality and its relation to moral, ontological, and epistemological issues. Mamet dramatizes the …
ANALYSIS BY ACT - AmerLit
The play and film Oleanna by David Mamet mocks the oppressive “utopianism” of Feminist political correctness in higher education and throughout the country as Old Bull. The play …
New Realism: Mamet, Mann and Nelson - Springer
In the work of David Mamet, Emily Mann and Richard Nelson, a radical 'new realism' has carved out its place on the American stage. While retaining bourgeois characters and everyday …
Three Uses of the Knife - cdn.bookey.app
In *Three Uses of the Knife*, acclaimed playwright David Mamet explores the profound significance of theater as an art form that evokes awe and reflection.
Reviews 181 David Mamet, commenting on the fuss around …
David Mamet, commenting on the fuss around his recent play, Oleanna, remarked that he doubted whether theatre had any material political effect on the everyday life of people. This …
David Mamet in Theory and Practice - JSTOR
Mamet'sshortessaysfocusonafixedconstellationoftopics:drama,masculine pursuits (card playing,hunting,drinking,friendship),the American Jewishidentity, andchildhoodmemories.
The 2012 Wriston Lecture - Manhattan Institute
In 2008, Mamet wrote a controversial op-ed for the Village Voice titled “Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal,’” in which he questioned some of his former beliefs.
David Mamet - api.pageplace.de
November: ‘One does not usually consider David Mamet in the same brainiac thought with political comedy – he of Glengarry Glen Ross fame – but that’s exactly what the esteemed …
THE COLOR OF CONFIDENCE - JSTOR
conceptions of the political economy by illustrating how identitarian categories work in tandem with the logic of gold, my model for faith under capitalism. In the following pages, I will focus …
Race, Rape, and White Victimhood: David Mamet's 'Race'
raping a black woman, has shrewdly sought out this interracial firm in which Henry, black, and Jack, white, are law partners. As the two attorneys discuss. Charles's case, Henry mocks …
DAVID MAMET - ia802904.us.archive.org
David’s Workbook supplements each lesson with Chapter Reviews, Take It Further opportunities, and Assignments. This printable PDF is filled with places for you to take notes as you go. …
SEX IN CINEMA - Archive.org
Playboy staffer David Mamet meditates on the state of American blood sports in iNo Más! With suspicious decisions in boxing and contrivances in wrestling, he concludes that the artistry and …
David Mamet - AmerLit
Oleanna disturbed liberals by dramatizing the fascism of academic Feminists. More recently Mamet shocked them again by announcing “Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal’” in …
David Mamet’s Oleanna - api.pageplace.de
Each book is carefully structured to off er a systematic study of the play in its biographical, historical, social and political context, an in-depth study of the text, an overview of the work’s …
Power play: The dynamics of power and interpersonal …
Critical response to David Mamet’s Oleanna has been stridently divided for decades, ever since the play’s original debut. One group of critics in particular has repeatedly de-nounced the …
The Modern Academy - JSTOR
Mamet's play, which unfolds in three acts, takes place entirely in the office of a male college professor in his forties who receives three visits from a twenty-year old undergraduate named …
A MATTER OF SIX INCHES THEATRICAL AND CULTURAL …
how does Mamet manipulate his reading and viewing audience into taking sides in a hot debate about sexual harassment, and whose position, if any, does he privilege? This thesis uses a …
MAMET ON MAMET: POLITICS AND POETICS IN OLEANNA …
Mamet on Mamet: Politics and Poetics in Oleanna, Race, The Anarchist, and China Doll ” aims to illuminate Mamet’s mature aesthetic through a close examination of four of his later plays.
AMERICAN DREAM AS REFLECTED IN DAVID MAMET’S …
This study is devoted to the analysis of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross based on Marxism point of view, in which it focuses on the power praxis portrayed within its story.
Mamet’s Men: Crisis of Masculinity in Modern Society as …
Oct 5, 2012 · David Mamet questions widespread notions of masculinity, and asks audiences and readers to reconsider them in the light of the new evidence presented in his plays.
David Mamet’s American Buffalo - IJELLH
David Mamet‘s tightly wrought 1975 play American Buffalo explores the theme of economic reality and its relation to moral, ontological, and epistemological issues. Mamet dramatizes the …
ANALYSIS BY ACT - AmerLit
The play and film Oleanna by David Mamet mocks the oppressive “utopianism” of Feminist political correctness in higher education and throughout the country as Old Bull. The play …
New Realism: Mamet, Mann and Nelson - Springer
In the work of David Mamet, Emily Mann and Richard Nelson, a radical 'new realism' has carved out its place on the American stage. While retaining bourgeois characters and everyday …
Three Uses of the Knife - cdn.bookey.app
In *Three Uses of the Knife*, acclaimed playwright David Mamet explores the profound significance of theater as an art form that evokes awe and reflection.
Reviews 181 David Mamet, commenting on the fuss around …
David Mamet, commenting on the fuss around his recent play, Oleanna, remarked that he doubted whether theatre had any material political effect on the everyday life of people. This …
David Mamet in Theory and Practice - JSTOR
Mamet'sshortessaysfocusonafixedconstellationoftopics:drama,masculine pursuits (card playing,hunting,drinking,friendship),the American Jewishidentity, andchildhoodmemories.
The 2012 Wriston Lecture - Manhattan Institute
In 2008, Mamet wrote a controversial op-ed for the Village Voice titled “Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal,’” in which he questioned some of his former beliefs.
David Mamet - api.pageplace.de
November: ‘One does not usually consider David Mamet in the same brainiac thought with political comedy – he of Glengarry Glen Ross fame – but that’s exactly what the esteemed …
THE COLOR OF CONFIDENCE - JSTOR
conceptions of the political economy by illustrating how identitarian categories work in tandem with the logic of gold, my model for faith under capitalism. In the following pages, I will focus …
Race, Rape, and White Victimhood: David Mamet's 'Race'
raping a black woman, has shrewdly sought out this interracial firm in which Henry, black, and Jack, white, are law partners. As the two attorneys discuss. Charles's case, Henry mocks …
DAVID MAMET - ia802904.us.archive.org
David’s Workbook supplements each lesson with Chapter Reviews, Take It Further opportunities, and Assignments. This printable PDF is filled with places for you to take notes as you go. …
SEX IN CINEMA - Archive.org
Playboy staffer David Mamet meditates on the state of American blood sports in iNo Más! With suspicious decisions in boxing and contrivances in wrestling, he concludes that the artistry and …
