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In his new book "The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture." Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet gives a voice to one of America’s most openly oppressed minorities, the entertainment-industry conservative. He frames the discussion of the current culture war with his journey from being a “brain-dead liberal” to being a true believer on the right. Mr. Mamet is part of a growing resistance movement among entertainers, artists and musicians who are bold enough to buck the hard-left Hollywood orthodoxy and think for themselves. A few years ago actor Gary Sinise helped organize an informal salon of centrists and...

The Obama administration seems to be of two minds in promoting its various foreign policy agendas. On the one hand, the White House has made a high profile attempt to improve relations with the world’s Muslims, going out of its way to heap praise on Islam and distance the faith from the radical extremists who are committing acts of terrorism in its name. On the other hand, the administration has been campaigning for international protection of the rights of homosexuals, for example promoting the United Nations Human Rights Council’s March 22 statement on “Ending Violence Based on Sexual Orientation and...