The following is a sort of "message in a bottle" from the time when George H. W. Bush was president and all was (comparatively) well with the world. It is the first chapter of my 1991 book, Parliament of Whores: A Lone...
A look back at works of genius (plus a cartoon) that forecast today’s technological, economic, and social innovations… By P.J. O’Rourke How well can people predict innovation? Here’s one way to...
What really changes everyday life is more mental than material – things you hold in your mind, not things you hold in your mitts. The most important innovations are ideas...
When people say “innovation” – especially people in business and investment – they say it with a smile. They say it like they’d say “cold beer,” as if it were always a good idea.
A gallon of water weighs eight pounds, five and a half ounces. Once a week, I fill the poultry waterer in my chicken coop. The waterer holds five gallons. The coop is 200 hundred yards (one “stink distance” away) from...
The “New Mutant Capitalism” has a lot of worrying features. Let’s not worry about the wrong ones. In particular, let’s not worry about whether these companies are “monopolistic.”
Thirty years ago, it was simple… Now, it’s as if somebody took corporations and exposed them to atomic bomb test radiation. Letter from the Editor: From Editor in Chief P.J. O’Rourke Something strange has...
The history of money is increasing confusion… bitcoin is no exception Letter from the Editor: From Editor in Chief P.J. O’Rourke People have all sorts of feelings about cryptocurrency – wild enthusiasm, cool...
