P. J. O'Rourke

Everyone recognizes the image of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima. But what do you know about the place we were actually fighting for?

• P. J. O'Rourke
• June 2004 Issue

Our correspondent looks much too closely at the current crop of stump speeches

• P. J. O'Rourke
• January/February 2004 Issue

How I saved Iraq's modern art, and other confessions. A noncombatant's diary

• P. J. O'Rourke
• December 2003 Issue

How to remember the not-quite-greatest-generation

• P. J. O'Rourke
• April 2003 Issue

There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the self, as it were, itself

• P. J. O'Rourke
• March 2003 Issue

A malady that does not speak its name

• P. J. O'Rourke
• January/February 2003 Issue

Having an ear bent by Henry Adams, the prototype of the modern thinker

• P. J. O'Rourke
• December 2002 Issue

A chilling characteristic of politicians is that they're not in it for the money

• P. J. O'Rourke
• November 2002 Issue

For three decades the author searched fruitlessly for the perfect city. And then he found it

• P. J. O'Rourke
• October 2002 Issue

"There is a question," our correspondent writes, "that less-sophisticated Americans ask (and more-sophisticated Americans would like to): Why are people in the Middle East so crazy? Here, at the pyramids, was an answer from the earliest days of civilization: People have always been crazy."

• P. J. O'Rourke
• September 2002 Issue

"I'll keep the mohawk until we stop killing people abroad."— the musician Eddie Vedder, quoted about his hair in Rolling Stone, April 11, 2002

• P. J. O'Rourke
• July/August 2002 Issue

We owe our economic development, our form of government, and even our physical existence to spectacular flops

• P. J. O'Rourke
• June 2002 Issue

Campaign-finance reform is only a start

• P. J. O'Rourke
• May 2002 Issue

Everyone blames too little regulation for the Enron mess, but maybe the culprit was too much

• P. J. O'Rourke
• April 2002 Issue

Pious thoughts from wise fools

• P. J. O'Rourke
• March 2002 Issue

Coping with closure; enduring the New Seriousness

• P. J. O'Rourke
• February 2002 Issue

When Godzilla gets the willies

• P. J. O'Rourke
• January 2002 Issue

Demonstrating against reality in London and Washington

• P. J. O'Rourke
• December 2001 Issue

The things that stay in place

• P. J. O'Rourke
• November 2001 Issue