[Satire] Letter from the Humor Editor: Satire in the Satirical Age

Letter from the Humor Editor: Satire in the Satirical Age

It’s no secret that America is more divided than ever. While peaceful Thanksgiving dinners were the first to fall, satire is the latest victim of polarization.  Journalist Henry Mencken once said democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. For a country currently dealing with so-called “electile dysfunction,” we sure are getting it quite hard at the moment. The difference between real …