Politics and Prose
Ep. 242: Former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren, and political satirist P.J. O’Rourke
This week on Unorthodox, it’s raining Knesset cats and drone-delivered marijuana in Israel.
Our Jewish guest is Michael Oren, former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. and a former member of the Knesset. He talks to Liel about his new collection of short stories, The Night Archer, plus how writing fiction has long been an escape from his day job in politics.
Our gentile of the week is political satirist and journalist P.J. O’Rourke. He talks to Mark about his latest book, A Cry from the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land, plus whether conservatives can be as funny as liberals, and whether gentiles can be as funny as Jews. His question for us: Does the God of the Hebrew Bible have a sense of humor?
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