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Events • September 15, 2020 

# *A Cry from the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land*

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*](https://bookshop.org/books/a-cry-from-the-far-middle-dispatches-from-a-divided-land/9780802157737), 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**.

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H. L. Mencken Research Fellow