NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: Individual Liberty on Display
Regnery, Alfred S.
n o T e f R o M T H e P u B L I s H e R Individual Liberty on Display by Alfred s. Regnery standing of the Constitution, and on the conservative legal movement, than Robert Bork. We...
...It is still undetermined what the left will do to Mamet for so rudely abandoning it, but we expect that conservatives will welcome him with open arms...
...Thanks to his thorough grasp of Mamet’s life and work, including his movies and novels, Macomber is able to discover what it was that ultimately turned this famous playwright and literary figure against Hollywood leftism...
...They may have kept him off the Court, but in the process liberalism’s credibility dropped another notch or two...
...The left, led by its old warhorse Ted Kennedy, knew the damage Bork would have done to their cause and so pulled out all the stops to destroy him...
...Meanwhile, private citizen Bork has labored on, his head held high, his credibility intact, and has made an unmatched contribution to the policy debate and to the state of the conservative movement by speaking, writing books and articles, and otherwise participating in many of the major debates and issues of the day...
...Bill Press’s Train Wreck: The End of the Conservative Revolution (and Not a Moment Too Soon) is the first of these lucky victims...
...As part of our year-long series on individual liberty, Nobody has had more influence on the underhe offers a clear and concise essay on that topic as the Founders understood it and on what the politicians and courts have done, over the last 200 or so years, to alter what was perceived as one of the cornerstones of American liberty...
...Stay tuned...
...A free-market understanding of the world,” wrote Mamet, “meshes more perfectly with my experience than that idealistic vision I called liberalism...
...Mamet’s shift, said Dan Henninger, writing recently in the Wall Street Journal, “is an outrage against polite American wisdom...
...It is no secret that the Constitution now bears little resemblance to the document ratified by the states in 1789, no secret that the rights its drafters sought to protect are virtually forgotten, and no secret that the courts have created a bevy of new rights never dreamt of by the Founders or protected by the Constitution...
...Finally, speaking of brain-dead liberals, we are pleased to announce that with this issue we are i naugurating a new American Spectator feature: The Slaughterhouse...
...n o T e f R o M T H e P u B L I s H e R Individual Liberty on Display by Alfred s. Regnery standing of the Constitution, and on the conservative legal movement, than Robert Bork...
...One unlikely soul who, after many years as a bona fide liberal, discovered that he had had enough (and that the left was busily subverting—what else but—the Constitution) was playwright David Mamet who, in a recent piece in the Village Voice, declared that he was no longer a brain-dead liberal but that he found he agreed with people like Milton Friedman, Thomas Sowell, Paul Johnson, Shelby Steele, and a host of other conservative writers—writers who actually made a great deal more sense, Mamet found, than the nonsense broadcast by NPR and its band of brain-dead lefties...
...None of us will ever forget Bob Bork’s nomination fight for a seat on the Supreme Court—the most difficult such battle in our history, and a demonstration of the sheer nastiness and utter disrespect for honest debate, and decency, of which the liberals are capable...
...Had Bork been confirmed in that 1987 battle, and been a member of the high court for the past 21 years, the legal world landscape of today would look much different...
...So long as liberals continue to write such books, we will continue to shred them...
...We welcome him back to our pages this month...
...We asked Shawn Macomber, one of our able and perceptive young writers, to take a look at how Mamet might have arrived at such a blasphemous conclusion...
...Books that offend our sensibilities even more than the conventional brain-dead creation will be given a deservedly cutting and caustic review...
...alfred s. Regnery is publisher of The American 6 T H e a M e R I c a n s P e c T a T o R J u n e 2 0 0 8 Spectator and author of the new book Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism (Threshold/ Simon & Schuster...
Vol. 41 • June 2008 • No. 5
