It really is a sign of how much news there is these days that David Mamet’s conversion to conservatism has gotten so little coverage, at least here in the U.S. During a slow news period, it’d be a huge bone for the chattering classes to chew on. Anyway, my thoughts on it here.

Update: From a reader:

1) Billington is so appallingly wrong on the Mamet issue it’s silly. First, Mamet didn’t proclaim himself a conservative, only someone who is no longer liberal; that sounds to me the essence of not being rigidly ideological.
2) You have no idea how silent people are. The dramatists’ and dramaturgy yahoogroups are SILENT on the matter. I don’t know if they’re shocked or what. I’m not. Mamet’s been making noises that he’s fed up with lefty orthodoxy for years. Maybe the silence is because this was expected.