The Disenlightenment: Politics, Horror, and Entertainment

By David Mamet

Categories: Politics & Social Sciences

In this 2025 essay collection, playwright and filmmaker David Mamet, once a stalwart of liberal thought, turns to the culture that shaped his early career and argues that America's elites have twisted institutions, media and culture into tools of manipulation. Mamet writes on subjects from war and love to success and death, and on the carnival nature of politics and the power of language, drawing often on movies about the mafia.

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