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Articles by P.J. O’Rourke
The Humor War: Why Laughter Will Win Us the Cultural Battle
The main problem with those on the postmodern Left is that they take things too seriously. If they were joking around, getting drunk, and sleeping off hangovers all day, they wouldn’t have time to legislate nonsense and limit freedoms, and we’d all be happier. All a conservative asks of his politicians in government is that they be late for work and as lazy as they can be. Any American would want that.
A Tribute to PJ O'Rourke
In This Episode: In this special edition of American Consequences, Trish Regan pays tribute to PJ O’Rourke. O’Rourke was the Editor-in-Chief of American Consequences Magazine since its inception in 2017. In this episode, Trish brings you some of her conversations with PJ over the years. You’ll hear his thoughts and concerns about our increasingly divided nation — as well as his fear of growing government overreach in the wake of COVID. As Trish says, “PJ was a legend…and he will be dearly missed.”
A Tribute to P.J. O’Rourke
February 17, 2022 Dear reader, I write to you today with some sad news. P.J. O’Rourke, a legend in the literary field, and our courageous American Consequences Editor in Chief, passed away on Tuesday at the age of 74. All of us here at American Consequences and our parent company Stansberry Research are with me when I say that the world has lost a great writer and an even better man. We were blessed to have P.J. at the helm of this magazine since its inception.
Opinion | P.J. O’Rourke: Hillary Clinton’s Healthcare Reform: License to Kill
Editor’s note: This article appeared in The Wall Street Journal on Sept. 23, 1993. O’Rourke died Tuesday at 74. I can’t seem to learn anything about President Clinton’s healthcare reform plan. I watch the network news and discover that the plan cannot be summarized briefly. I read the papers and find the plan cannot be explained at length. I listened to the president himself and he seems at least as confused as I am, though less succinctly.
The Best Of P.J. O’Rourke In UKTN
P.J. O’Rourke, the prolific political satirist and bestselling author who died today at 74, wrote with a sharp elbow dipped in ink.
Three Books That Aren’t About Investing… Which Every Investor Should Read | December 27, 2021 By P.J. O’Rourke Serious investors care about more than the markets. They care about the freedom that makes those markets work, and the wisdom behind that freedo
December 27, 2021 By P.J. O’Rourke Serious investors care about more than the markets. They care about the freedom that makes those markets work, and the wisdom behind that freedom. Serious investors also care about the things that threaten market freedom – such as foolish politics and ideology. Having investments is like having kids. You want them to grow and prosper, with liberty and responsibility. You don’t want them ruined by bad ideas… like getting a face tattoo.
Useless Christmas Trivia (That You May Find Pretty Useful)
December 17, 2021 By P.J. O’Rourke This year, you may be back to having a great big, old-fashioned family Christmas dinner… Good luck with that. Sometimes it’s hard to get the conversation started. More often, it’s hard to get the conversation stopped. As soon as everybody starts screaming and yelling at one another, it’s your job, as host, to quickly CHANGE THE SUBJECT! Below are a few random items of useless Christmas trivia.
P.J. O’Rourke: Power-Hungry Leaders Revel in COVID Shutdowns
Episode #46 | July 29th, 2021 Listen Now In This Episode: American Consequences Editor-in-Chief and best-selling author P.J. O’Rourke joins Trish in this episode and they dive into a variety of topics, including his updated blockbuster book Eat the Rich that he’s giving away for free at freepjbook.com. P.J. talks with Trish about the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, the state of small businesses, masks, shutdowns, and inflated prices of goods and services.
American Consequences - December 2020
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Grove at Home: November 15-21
Every weekday, from now until we’re all out of the house again, we’ll be sharing a couple of links — some fresh, some from the vault — to say hi, remind you to keep reading, and let you know what’s on our minds.
A CRY FROM THE FAR MIDDLE
Straight talk to blacks and whites about the realities of racism. In her feisty debut book, Oluo, essayist, blogger, and editor at large at the Establishment magazine, writes from the perspective of a black, queer, middle-class, college-educated woman living in a “white supremacist country.” The daughter of a white single mother, brought up in largely white Seattle, she sees race as “one of the most defining forces” in her life.
Rach’s progress | Spectator USA
Books Books June 2020 Magazine Rake’s Progress: My Political Midlife Crisis by Rachel Johnson reviewed Oh, to hell with the Olympian book review, that distanced and disinterested critique pronounced from on high. Our muses may dwell on a mountaintop, but we writers live on the molehill of our trade. An ant heap, actually, where every trifling insect in the little colony is kin.
Long Read Rewind: Fall 2017
It was a very good year, a very good year for cars of every kind. And most of us didn’t even notice. We were having too much fun in our cars to realize that everything about cars was about to change. Wide-ranging government emissions and safety regulations would soon be in effect. Higher bumpers and uncovered headlamps were on the way, as were air pumps and other rudimentary anti-pollution equipment. But in 1967, we got one final moment of how-things-used-to-be.
P.J. O'Rourke: Who knows what we need? Not me.
What this country needs is fewer people who know what this country needs. We’d be better off, in my opinion, without so many opinions. Especially without so many political opinions. Including my own. Our nation faces a multitude of puzzling, complex and abstruse problems. Most Americans aren’t sure what to do about them.
Know what we need? Not me.
What this country needs is fewer people who know what this country needs. We’d be better off, in my opinion, without so many opinions. Especially without so many political opinions. Including my own. Our nation faces a multitude of puzzling, complex and abstruse problems. Most Americans aren’t sure what to do about them.
OPINION EXCHANGE | P.J. O'Rourke: We need more of the Extreme Moderate
What this country needs is fewer people who know what this country needs. We’d be better off, in my opinion, without so many opinions. Especially without so many political opinions. Including my own. Our nation faces a multitude of puzzling, complex and abstruse problems. Most Americans aren’t sure what to do about them.
Puritanism is back...and welcome to it
Faith Liberalism Life Martyrdom has become ‘inclusive’ Students march to the Museum of Natural History to protest the lack of action on global warming This article is in The Spectator’s inaugural US edition. Subscribe here to get yours. Cole Porter sang: ‘In olden days, a glimpse of stocking / Was looked on as something shocking / But now, God knows, / Anything goes.’ Everything went, and with it: humor.
Puritanism is back...and welcome to it
This article is in The Spectator’s inaugural US edition. Subscribe here to get yours. Cole Porter sang: ‘In olden days, a glimpse of stocking / Was looked on as something shocking / But now, God knows, / Anything goes.’ Everything went, and with it: humor. World War One was followed by a licentious riot of amoral libertinism, with the collapse of religious convictions, ethical norms, societal conventions and plain good manners. Nothing was sacrosanct and this turned laughter into hard work.
Commentary: Time to make rich people uncomfortable again
By P.J. O’Rourke Lately there has been a lot of anger and indignation about income inequality. Some blame this on . . . income inequality. I blame it on rich people in T-shirts. I won’t mention Mark Zuckerberg by name. But, honestly, young man, you’re almost 35 years old, worth $72 billion, and you’re wearing your underwear in public. Yes, I’m also going around in an untucked “My Kid Went to College and All I Got Was This Lousy . . .” But I’ve earned it. Or, rather, I haven’t.
OPINION EXCHANGE | It's time to make rich people suffer again
Lately there has been a lot of anger and indignation about income inequality. Some blame this on … income inequality. I blame it on rich people in T-shirts. I won’t mention Mark Zuckerberg by name. But, honestly, young man, you’re almost 35 years old, worth $72 billion, and you’re wearing your underwear in public. Yes, I’m also going around in an untucked “My Kid Went to College and All I Got Was This Lousy … .” But I’ve earned it. Or, rather, I haven’t.
P.J. O’Rourke: It’s time to make rich people uncomfortable again
By P.J. O’Rourke Special to the Washington Post Lately there has been a lot of anger and indignation about income inequality. Some blame this on … income inequality. I blame it on rich people in T-shirts. I won’t mention Mark Zuckerberg by name. But, honestly, young man, you’re almost 35 years old, worth $72 billion, and you’re wearing your underwear in public. Yes, I’m also going around in an untucked “My Kid Went to College and All I Got Was This Lousy …” But I’ve earned it. Or, rather, I haven’t.
New Hampshire author explains why you aren't rich
“None of My Business: P.J. Explains Money, Banking, Debt, Equity, Assets, Liabilities, and Why He’s Not Rich and Neither Are You” Sooner or later, in any gathering, pops up the subject of the hour — money, the pablum of American life.P.J. O’Rourke, a longtime Sharon resident, tackles the subject and more in his latest creative satirical writings.
P.J. O’Rourke: How I Killed ‘National Lampoon’ (Guest Column)
This story first appeared in the July 31 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe. A new Vacation movie is scheduled to be released — or allowed to escape — on July 29. To judge by the obvious, pitiful, frenetic, stupid raunchiness of its trailer, it belongs to the genre known as “post-humoristic.” The movie declares itself to be a remake of National Lampoon’s Vacation, the 1983 classic of obvious, pitiful, frenetic, stupid innocence.
The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way (And It Wasn’t My Fault) (And I’ll Never Do It Again)
Who among us hasn’t said or written something dumb about aging and lived to regret it? Ask Pete Townshend, who’s 68 now, about his comment, “Hope I die before I get old,” or 73-year-old Jack Weinberg, famous for saying “Don’t trust anyone over 30” at a UC Berkeley protest back in 1964. Or maybe ask 66-year-old P. J.
"Two-Point-Eight-Trillion-Anything Is Scary" - Competitive Enterprise Institute
The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s 2006 Annual Dinner and Reception paid homage to Hollywood. The evening, themed “A Night at the Movies,” featured P.J. O’Rourke, one of the nation’s foremost political satirists, as Keynote Speaker. Also appearing that night were ABC News Correspondent John Stossel, who was presented the 2006 Julian L. Simon Memorial Award; National Review Editor Rich Lowry, who acted as master of ceremonies; and Bloomberg columnist Amity Shlaes, who delivered the Warren T.
Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics – Ink 19
by P.J. O’Rourke Just put it down. Funnier’n hell. Informative as hell too. Whodda thunk that a fucking book that attempts to explain economics would be funnier’n hell? Not me, that’s for sure. Lately I’ve been on a streak of books that seem to grind along like some kind of required reading for a class they MADE you take. Surely, economic theory would qualify nicely there, wouldn’t it? Thankfully, that little streak just got broken and broken good.
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