It’s always a good thing to be well grounded in the classics. But some of them are really long, and written in “old”, and dull, and have big words you might have to look up. And they don’t really speak to modern times, unless you really think and think about them, and that...

We all know about this week’s Controversial Satire Attempt by that wicked, bad New Yorker magazine, which critics can now bash for being wicked instead of just elitist. (Boring!) That particular faux pas rocked the ever-intertwined worlds of politics and publishing and seemed to prove that pok...