P. J. O’Rourke Archives - American Consequences

Daily September 2021

Bites From the Rotten Fruit of Knowledge: A Conversation With P.J. O’Rourke

September 27, 2021 – Prepare for the master to school some wits into you: it may not help, but it will hurt.

Daily September 2021

Democracy Is for Losers

September 20, 2021 - America, land of sore winners and sloppy losers, needs to learn that we can't shove democracy down the throats of the unwilling on the international stage.

P. J. O’Rourke

August 2021 Daily

Equal Defunding for All! Defund the Department of Sanitation

August 30, 2021 – Why stop at defunding the police? America needs to get its hands politically (and literally) even dirtier by disposing of the most problematic government entity: The Department of Sanitation.

P. J. O’Rourke

August 2021 Daily

Joe Gives Competition the Finger

August 23, 2021 – Few competitors in futility's arena could match Biden's clumsy executive order attempting to "promote competition" in the American economy, strangling free-market capitalism with bureaucratic red tape.

P. J. O’Rourke

Daily July 2021

How to Argue in Favor of Free Markets

July 26, 2021 – For all the market skeptics, agnostics, and atheists out there, P.J. O'Rourke synthesizes the sage financial insights of one Milton Friedman.

P. J. O’Rourke

Daily July 2021

Why Kids Today Don’t Understand Free Markets

July 19, 2021 - Millennials and Zoomers, your financial illiteracy is not your fault. You came of age when money fell under the abstraction of digitization and mass government intervention. So, here's a free lesson.

P. J. O’Rourke

Daily

Love, Death, and Money

June 5, 2021 – Our Editor in Chief P.J. O'Rourke's been digging into the lifeblood of money for decades, and today we're sharing the first chapter from his re-released bestseller Eat the Rich.

P. J. O’Rourke

Daily June 2021

The Baloney American Jobs Plan

June 28, 2021 – Our Editor in Chief P.J. O'Rourke bravely volunteers to delve into Biden's "American Jobs Plan," coming to the foregone conclusion that its creators need to seek another form of employment.

P. J. O’Rourke

Daily

Eat the Rich

June 5, 2021 - Do you finally want to understand what the $&^! economists are droning on about all the time? Then P.J.'s newly released, updated bestseller Eat the Rich is the book for you.

P. J. O’Rourke

Daily May 2021

John Boehner Book Review: Throwing His Book at Them

May 31, 2021 - Politicians' memoirs are typically good for very little -- least of all reading. But former Speaker of the House John Boehner's book is an endlessly quotable firing squad aimed at Washington's idiocy.

P. J. O’Rourke