In conversation with P.J. O'Rourke on the state of the United States
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America's 2020 has been a crazy year by any standards. It's no wonder we're all feeling somewhat angry and perplexed. But according to legendary American satirist P.J. O’Rourke, perplexed and angry is what America has always been. His new book, A Cry From The Far Middle, is an uproarious look at the current state of the United States. Featuring extensive coverage from the 2020 campaign trail, he considers - amongst many other things - the upside of being ‘woke’ (and unable to get back to sleep) and the ludicrously unsettling reality of the so-called Internet of Things, in which "your juicer is sending fake news to your FitBit about what’s in your refrigerator."
He's been described in The Sunday Times as “a conservative that liberals grudgingly admire” and was hailed by the New York Times Book Review for proving that "Starchy Republicanism is really, really fun."
Editor: James Harding , Co-founder and Editor, Tortoise
About P.J.
P.J. O’Rourke has written nineteen books on subjects as diverse as politics and cars and etiquette and economics. Parliament of Whores and Give War a Chance both reached #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. He is a contributing editor at the Weekly Standard, H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute, a regular panellist on NPR’s Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me, and editor-in-chief of the web magazine American Consequences. He lives in rural New England, as far away from the things he writes about as he can get.
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