Recessional: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch

“Savagery appeased can only grow. Once you give in to it, it must escalate, like a fire searching for air.”

The man who won the Pulitzer Prize for GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS, who wrote the classic films THE VERDICT and WAG THE DOG sounds his alarm with searing political commentary about the Visigoths at our gates.

In RECESSIONAL he calls out, skewers, mocks, and, most importantly, dissects the virus of conformity which is now an existential threat to the West.

A broad-ranging journey through history, the Bible, and literature, RECESSIONAL is a defense of American democracy that 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 democracy – the foundations of security and growth.

A wickedly funny, wistful and wry appeal to the free-thinking citizen, RECESSIONAL is a vital warning that if we don’t confront the cultural thuggery now, the commissars and their dupes will transform the Land of the Free into the dictatorship at which they aim.

• A Defense of Free Speech: Mamet argues that screaming down freedom of thought and expression kills the invention and democracy that are the foundations of Western security and growth.
• Unflinching Cultural Criticism: A sharp dissection of the “virus of conformity,” calling out the cultural thuggery that threatens to transform the Land of the Free into a dictatorship.
• Conservative Political Analysis: Drawing on history, literature, and the Bible, Mamet sounds the alarm on how cultural attitudes have shifted against rebellion and individual thought in the last generation.
• An Appeal to the Free-Thinker: A vital warning to the independent citizen that confronts the commissars and their dupes before it is too late.