As the left and right slide further apart, intrepid journalist P. J. O’Rourke has found himself with nowhere to go but the center. In his new book, A Cry from the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land, the man who has covered wars in the Middle East, Central America, the Balkans, and other places around the world is now confronting political battles at home. Amid a pandemic and civil unrest, O’Rourke wonders if American politics will be fundamentally changed. His answer is a funny-yet-sobering thought for the future: “I’m betting that human nature will triumph over challenge and adversity. And I don’t mean that in a good way.”

Please join our Executive Vice President David Boaz for a conversation with “America’s funniest writer” (Wall Street Journal) and Cato H. L. Mencken Research Fellow P. J. O’Rourke.