Here is the latest Bookends column from this week’s issue of the Spectator:
P. J. O’Rourke is what happens when America does Grumpy Old Men. Instead of sour-faced curmudgeons bleating that ‘politics is just a load of crap’, you get a succession of amusing and incisive observations about why politics is a load of crap. And his solution is that we should stop looking for solutions — from politics, that is. For the real solution, we need to look in the mirror.
In his latest book, Don’t Vote! It Just Encourages the Bastards, O’Rourke’s humour is used to advance arguments (‘the government is taking a third of your pay … is the government doing a third of your dishes?’) as well as to satirise: a typical National Public Radio headline, he says, runs: ‘World to end.
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