Free Thoughts, Ep. 257: Laughing about Politics (with P.J. O'Rourke)
Channel: Libertarianism.org
Date: 2018-09-21

P.J. O'Rourke offers comedic relief about the state of our politics from his unique journalistic perspective influenced by the "sunshine" of the 1960s. O'Rourke has worked for many notable publications such as the National Lampoon and Rolling Stone Magazine. He has had two New York Times #1 Bestsellers; Parliament of Whores and Give War a Chance. He is currently a correspondent for the Atlantic as well as the H.L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute.

Why does show business and left-wing politics have an affinity for each other? What happened to politics in the 1960s? How did the baby boomers ruin the world? What does O'Rourke think of the state of journalism today? Are we more divided today, as a society, than we were in the latter half of the 1960s?

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