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Republican Party Reptile, by P. J. O’Rourke (Atlantic Monthly, 220 pp., $6.95)

P. J. O’Rourke is a conservative for the future. As a former editor of National Lampoon and a frequent contributor to all the trendy glossies, he is a part of and yet apart from the East Coast Media Establishment. O’Rourke is funny, cool, hip, and sexy. He’s everything Tom Shales says conservatives are not. And he is skillful enough to smuggle his cockamamie conservatism into any magazine he wants. (By the way, he’s not a wellconnected Harvard grad, but a Midwesterner who infiltrated the Lampoon hierarchy and went on from there.)

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Republican Party Reptile, by P. J. O’Rourke (Atlantic Monthly, 220 pp., $6.95)

P. J. O’Rourke is a conservative for the future. As a former editor of National Lampoon and a frequent contributor to all the trendy glossies, he is a part of and yet apart from the East Coast Media Establishment. O’Rourke is funny, cool, hip, and sexy. He’s everything Tom Shales says conservatives are not. And he is skillful enough to smuggle his cockamamie conservatism into any magazine he wants. (By the way, he’s not a wellconnected Harvard grad, but a Midwesterner who infiltrated the Lampoon hierarchy and went on from there.)