P. J. O'Rourke
P. J. O'Rourke
Patrick Jake "P. J." O'Rourkeis an American political satirist and journalist. O'Rourke is the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute and is a regular correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, The American Spectator, and The Weekly Standard, and frequent panelist on National Public Radio's game show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!. Since 2011 O'Rourke has been a columnist at The Daily Beast. In the United Kingdom, he is known as the face of a long-running series of television...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth14 November 1947
CountryUnited States of America
After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.
A fundamental American question is, 'What's the big idea?'
You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?
When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money.
When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.
Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy.
Opinions of language are as interesting as opinions of arithmetic.
In the Soviet Union, no industry went under until they all did.
In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.
If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.
If we were to inspect ourselves or members of our family and our friends, we would see that we don't really have to go all the way overseas to be mystified - we can be mystified right at home.