R.I.P. P.J. O’Rourke

P.J. O’Rourke has died. He was a week off turning 75. He was one of my favourite writers, a towering influence, of huge importance to me in my teen years and early 20s. He was at the sophisticated end of Frat-Boy humour (Modern Manners, The Bachelor Home Companion) and of course he went far beyond that to politics, travel, economics and always with humo…