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P.J. O’Rourke’s death marks the end of a great satirical era

Fond memories of the great satirist

19 February 2022

9:00 AM

19 February 2022

9:00 AM

There was something old school about P.J. O’Rourke, who died on Tuesday, something that felt like a leftover echo of the American Revolution. Visiting him in his ancient, low-ceilinged, clapboard farm-house in Sharon, New Hampshire, one half-expected Paul Revere to burst breathlessly into the kitchen warning that the British were coming.

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