P. J. O’Rourke

June 2018

Who Do We Appreciate?

In an American presidential election, voters do not – oddly enough – vote for a presidential candidate. They vote for an “elector” who is “pledged” to vote for that candidate.

P. J. O’Rourke

June 2018

Stick a Fork in It, It’s Done

The 2018 Farm Bill: There’s Plenty of Blame – and Manure – to Be Spread Around

P. J. O’Rourke

June 2018

The Heartland Will Return With Goat Farms?

One of my favorite investors is Mark Spitznagel. Of course, I admire his success. He is the “Ursa Major” among bears, having correctly (and very profitably) called the stock market crashes of 2000 and 2008.

P. J. O’Rourke

June 2018

The Coastals Versus The Heartlanders

They infest the metropolises of the Left Coast and the Eastern Seaboard and they swarm the atolls-of-the-trendy in between... You find them in Ann Arbor, Michigan... Austin, Texas... Boulder, Colorado... all the other places where the smell of pot...

P. J. O’Rourke

May 2018

Lessons About Adventure Nerds

And Many Other Things at the 34th Space Symposium

P. J. O’Rourke

May 2018

My Lousy Education

And Why the World Needs ‘B.S.’ Degrees

P. J. O’Rourke

May 2018

Learn Outside the Box

I want my kids to believe in getting a good education, but I’m not sure where they’ll get it.

P. J. O’Rourke

April 2018

Greed and Fear

Smile When You Say That, Partner By P.J. O’Rourke Markets are ruled by greed and fear. Or so they say. For example, Warren Buffett famously declared, “Two super-contagious diseases, fear and greed, will forever occur in the investment...

P. J. O’Rourke

April 2018

Random Walk

There are lots of theories about stock market prices. My favorite is the “random walk hypothesis.” The idea behind random walk is that the stock market is efficient. The price of a stock reflects everything that’s known about the stock. Thus, at any...

P. J. O’Rourke

April 2018

STRIKE!!!

Who pays income tax? US! Us, and almost nobody but us. “Us” being the kind of people who read American Consequences.

P. J. O’Rourke