History Through Humor
January 22, 2014P.J. O’Rourke has been making us laugh through his writing for 50 years. And as a proud Baby Boomer, he’s got plenty of wry insights to make about his generation.
P.J. O’Rourke has been making us laugh through his writing for 50 years. And as a proud Baby Boomer, he’s got plenty of wry insights to make about his generation.
Where do power, freedom, responsibility and humor meet? In the mind and political commentary of P.J. O’Rourke. We’ll spend this hour with the famous political satirist who’s in town to talk about his new book “Don’t Vote It Just Encourages the Bastards” (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2010).
From the archives – Where do freedom and America’s love affair with the automobile intersect? They meet in the brain of P.J. O’Rourke. We talked with him in September about his collection of essays called “Driving Like Crazy: Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-bending” (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2009).
Where do freedom and America’s love affair with the automobile intersect? They meet in the brain of P.J. O’Rourke. He’s in town to address the Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations about his work with Freedom House on global political and economic freedom. He’s also just published a collection of essays called “Driving Like Crazy: Thirty […]