P. J. O’Rourke

June 2020

Killing Time, Part II

Boredom continues at the O’Rourke home By P.J. O’Rourke Three months into the coronavirus pandemic and everything is beginning to return to… the new abnormal. (Note for language geeks: “Pan” was the name of a Greek god who...

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June 2020

Ignore the Signal – Listen to the Noise

Letter from the Editor: Editor in Chief P.J. O’Rourke The protests all across America are obvious, but what’s most obvious about them is not what’s most important… The message is more fundamental than the mess. The vandalism and the looting...

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May 2020

Mr Mom

By P.J. O’Rourke As any feminist will tell you, it’s an old joke that men remain useless when it comes to housework, childcare, and daily meal preparation. Like most old jokes, it’s not funny. I know because I am that old joke. My wife was...

P. J. O’Rourke

May 2020

Deep Thoughts About the Coronavirus Pandemic

Letter from the Editor: Editor in Chief P.J. O’Rourke A friend of mine said, This is like being 16 again – gas is cheap, and I’m grounded. Two months into the coronavirus pandemic, I remain confused and perplexed. I’d say “I’m lost,” but that...

P. J. O’Rourke

April 2020

Killing Time

Boredom at the O’Rourke home By P.J. O’Rourke Oops… My title for this essay came out looking a little more ominous than I intended. Sorry. But you know what I mean. The mortality rate of COVID-19 is no laughing matter, but after a...

P. J. O’Rourke

April 2020

A Questionable Pandemic

P.J. Has just as many questions as a kid in quarantine homeschool Letter from the Editor: Editor in Chief P.J. O’Rourke There’s only one story in the news, and I’m not going to report on it… Like most journalists, I was the kind of liberal...

P. J. O’Rourke

March 2020

Old Enough To Know Better

No Matter Which Way You Flip It, We’re All Ending Up With An Old White Dude Letter from the Editor: Editor in Chief P.J. O’Rourke When the Super Tuesday primary polls opened on the morning of March 3, the race for the Democratic presidential...

P. J. O’Rourke

February 2020

It’s the Winner of the New Hampshire Primary…

And That Wasn’t Bernie Sanders Letter from the Editor: Editor in Chief P.J. O’Rourke Bernie did get the most votes, but it was clear that Democratic voters were looking for someone less flagrantly obnoxious to the general electorate than a...

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February 2020

The Romance of a $200k Phone Call

By P.J. O’Rourke The romance of being remote, isolated, and incommunicado used to be my career. I was a foreign correspondent from 1984, during the civil war in Lebanon, until the Iraq War in 2003 (when I decided I was too old to be scared...

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January 2020

If You Set Your Alarm for 2021…

How Bad Could It Be? Letter from the Editor: Editor in Chief P.J. O’Rourke Dateline: January 1, 2020, still in bed, hiding under the blankets with my laptop. New Year’s Day – when the “Over” meets the “Hang.” The two thousand-teens are over (thank...

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