Among the many publications for which O’Rourke wrote are The National Lampoon for which he was editor-in-chief, Automobile, American Spectator, Playboy, Esquire, Vanity Fair, The Independent Review, and Harper’s. He was also a regular correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly and the Foreign Affairs Desk Chief for Rolling Stone, a position that allowed him to expose the hypocrisies of world politics from the Persian Gulf to the Philippines. He was also Editor-in-Chief for American Consequences, H.L. Mencken Fellow at the Cato Institute, a regular panelist on NPR’s Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me! and a member of the editorial board for World Affairs.

Among his many best-selling books are Thrown Under the Omnibus, reviewed here in the Wall Street Journal; Modern Manners; The Bachelor Home Companion; Republican Party Reptile; Holidays in Hell; Parliament of Whores; All the Trouble in the World; Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut; The American Spectator’s Enemies List; Eat the Rich; The CEO of the Sofa; On the Wealth of Nations: Books That Changed the World; Driving Like Crazy; Don’t Vote! It Just Encourages the Bastards; Holidays in Heck and The Baby Boom.