Love liberty, laughing and lunch? Catch the Cato Institute, February 22, in Chicago, or the Goldwater Institute in Phoenix on March 7, to hear political pundit extraordinaire P.J. O’Rourke expound on his new book, On The Wealth of Nations. O’Rourke writes with the intellect of William F. Buckley and comedic flare of Robin Williams, and his live appearances have been known to make spleens spontaneously self-combust.

Can’t make the above luncheons? Consult the Grove Atlantic, Inv. website and click on “Author Appearances” for other upcoming O’Rourke PR layovers. Or, buy the-some-700-pages-shorter-than-the-original-book and indulge yourself in private. Teresa K. Weaver notes in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, ““Only humorist O’Rourke, author of ‘Parliament of Whores’ and ‘Give War a Chance,’ could use Paris Hilton to explain free-market philosopher Adam Smith.”