THOUGHTS ON SATIRE, from Roger Kimball: “We might not like some of the things that Juvenal tells us. But then we in the West pride ourselves on having finally achieved enlightenment about— oh, so many things! We are unburdened by many benighted prejudices that crimped the souls of our ancestors. And how much better we think of ourselves on account of our liberations. If nothing else, Juvenal may help temper that self-satisfaction.”

Read the whole thing. A half century ago, Malcolm Muggeridge observed that there is no way for any satirist can compete with real life for its pure absurdity. And as Roger notes, our Beltway and DNC-MSM elites have gotten exponentially more absurd in the decades since.