P. J. O’Rourke Archives - American Consequences

Daily November 2021

The Least Wonderful Time of the Year… College Admissions Hell

November 19, 2021 - It's the college admissions time of the year, and Editor in Chief P.J. O'Rourke's going through it for the third round at his house...

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Daily November 2021

Why I Hate Politics

November 10, 2021 - "My job is to make fun of politics. But after a lifetime of making fun of politics, I've realized that I'm enjoying myself about as much as a grizzly bear getting a bikini wax. I hate politics."

P. J. O’Rourke

Daily

Investing Lessons From a Dog, Hypnotist, and Convicted Felon

October 22, 2021 – A drug-sniffing canine, a circus sideshow, and an Enron alum all walk into a Las Vegas bar. And they each dole out priceless stock market insights.

P. J. O’Rourke

Daily October 2021

Out of Office

October 18, 2021 – Unfurling from the funeral of a friend, P.J. ghosts the world to meditate on the business of life and bask in the banal ecstasy of doing absolutely nothing.

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October 2021

Eat Their Words

Dead men (and women) tell a lot of tales. Here's a curation of history's most quotable sage pearls of savage wit that make sense of the absurdity of humanity's favorite affliction, politics.

P. J. O’Rourke

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.

Andrew Amundson, P. J. O’Rourke

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.

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