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Recessional: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch
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Author:
David Mamet
Publisher:
Broadside Books
Date:
April 5, 2022
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 democracyâthe foundations of security and growth.
What The Reviewers Say
There’s an essay early in David Mamet’s new book...that offers a tantalizing glimpse of what the book could have been, were the celebrated playwright’s brains not so irradiated by right-wing media and memes.
Anecdotal.
Mamet’s conspiracy theories aren’t exactly harm-ful (the only two kinds of people who’ll finish this book are those who already agree with it and those who’ve been paid to review it), but they’re often breathtakingly stupid.
In many ways this is a story about rebirth and the restorative qualities of nature. Baume avoids clichéd notions of inherent benevolence in the bucolic, highlighting instead the tangible realities of their surroundings.
