P.J. O’Rourke’s full name was Patrick Jake O’Rourke. It was so like P.J. to obscure the coolest middle name out there. Everyone’s world stopped when word got out Tuesday that he had died. He was one of those rare creatures…
Iacocca: An Autobiography Lee Iacocca, with William Novak, Bantam Books, $19.95 (1984) Reviewed by P.J. O’Rourke, The American Spectator, May 1985 You see the poor bastards at every airport in the country and all the Ramada Inns, Avis counters, and…
Editor’s Note: CVS Caremark has joined the “happy-face fascists” by deciding to remove all tobacco products from its shelves. The company tells us that it is doing this for altruistic reasons: that pharmacies focused on health care cannot logically also…
This is a moment of hope in history. Why doesn’t anybody say so? We are no longer in grave danger of the atomic war which, for nearly fifty years, threatened to annihilate humanity and otherwise upset everyone’s weekend plans. The…
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