Gulliver’s Travels in Washington, D.C.
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes
Someone should tell Washington’s elite that Gulliver’s Travels is a satire, not a handbook. Yes, in Part III of Jonathan Swift’s tale, Laputa sounds a lot like Washington, D.C. It also sounds a lot like the Spanish word for “whore,” about which the late P. J. O’Rourke is surely laughing from Heaven. The island of […]