Hope is not in Arkansas or from Chicago, it is in the Village in NYC

The Village Voice is not on my regular reading list but I highly commend this must read article by David Mamet.

Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal'

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0811,374064,374064,1.html/full

"And, I wondered, how could I have spent decades thinking that I
thought everything was always wrong at the same time that I thought thought that people were basically good at heart? Which was it? "