I did indeed enjoy that Ben Lewis piece, Jonah… though much more when I realised. a few puzzled paragraphs in, that I had misread the byline & was NOT reading a piece by Prof. Bernard Lewis.

We’ve exchanged a few commie jokes here on the Corner, so I won’t go there again. Oddly, I could find no anti-system jokes in just-post-Mao China, though liberalization of the economy has brought up some, mainly about corruption.

And I’m willing to bet that in North Korea, nobody is telling anti-regime jokes. There are degrees of state terror.