P.J. O’Rourke currently contributes to The Atlantic Monthly, among other publications. Here is one of his recent pieces for the Atlantic, about talk-radio. Do you detect sarcasm or irony here, or both? Or neither? What do you make of O’Rourke’s offhand remarks about his conservatism? Do you think you can make out his political beliefs from this piece?
Here is an older essay about Bill Clinton. How does O’Rourke seem to feel about his own generation?