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Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader

The growth of politics is the opposite of the growth of liberty. When liberty grows we get increased individual enterprise and expansion of free markets. We create more goods, services, and benefits to society. The pie gets bigger. But politics is not about creating more goods, services, and benefits to society. Politics is about dividing them up.

P.J. O'Rourke • A Cry from the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land

Code of A Modern Gentleman 1. Never strike anyone so old, small, or weak that verbal abuse would have sufficed. 2. Never steal anything so small that you’ll have to go to an unpleasant city jail for it instead of a minimum security federal tennis prison. 3. Remember, the truth is rude. Consider the truth about where babies come from, especially som

P. J. O'Rourke • Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader

Classical Liberalism has had a good run. Now it’s about to get run over by a bus full of stupid “post-capitalist” political trends—the new socialism, the new nationalism, the new trade war mercantilism, and the new social media platforms that drive this bus.

P.J. O'Rourke • A Cry from the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land

Also, lacking civil liberties and property rights, representative democracy is left with nothing to represent except the will of the mob or—as it’s called these days—“activism.”

P.J. O'Rourke • A Cry from the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land

to participate in the great decisions of government. There was, Lippmann brooded, no “intrinsic moral and intellectual virtue to majority rule.” Lippmann’s disenchantment with democracy anticipated the mood of today’s elites. From the top, the public, and the swings of public opinion, appeared irrational and uninformed. The human material out of wh

Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, the late Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, the author Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch 22 over its whole history. Heller responds, “Yes, but I have something he will never have . . . E... See more

John Bogle • "Enough"

What this country needs is fewer people who know what this country needs. We’d be better off, in my opinion, without so many opinions. Especially without so many political opinions. Including my own.

P.J. O'Rourke • A Cry from the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land

“A developed country is not one where the poor own cars, but one where the rich use public transportation.” — Gustavo Pedro