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Parliament of Whores

P.J. O'Rourke · 1991

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Recently I found out that P.J. O’Rourke’s masterpiece of political philosophy, Parliament of Whores, is online , for free. In your archives of classics, this book should go alongside Plato, Macchiavelli, Hume, and the Federalist Papers.

on grumpy-economist.com · 4 Feb 2026 · Report

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.