Pj Orourke

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The Indispensable Humorist February 13, 2023

The title of the present volume, The Funny Stuff, might imply the existence of other volumes of the not-funny variety, presumably by the same author, but this is not so. Some 20 other volumes of genuinely funny stuff by the late P.J. O’Rourke are, in...

Ash Wednesday and the Gift of Guilt March 02, 2022

Here in modern America, pressing pause on Amazon Prime and getting our guilt on for a change just might be good for us...

P.J. O’Rourke Mastered the Art of Teasing February 21, 2022

I first encountered P.J. O’Rourke’s writings as a teenager in a copy of Modern Manners my father encouraged me to buy while we were browsing the secondhand offerings of an offbeat little bookstore (looking back, I can’t imagine who in their right min...

P.J. O’Rourke Was a Joy February 16, 2022

P.J. O’Rourke’s passing after a short illness is devastating, not only because it robs us of his gimlet eye but because it reduces the store of kindness in the world....