More from Mamet:

I began reading not only the economics of Thomas Sowell (our greatest contemporary philosopher) but Milton Friedman, Paul Johnson, and Shelby Steele, and a host of conservative writers, and found that I agreed with them: a free-market understanding of the world meshes more perfectly with my experience than that idealistic vision I called liberalism.

To reiterate: David Mamet, writing in the Village Voice, calls Thomas Sowell “our greatest contemporary philosopher.”

I would not have predicted that.