Schoolhouse Rock is fine, but I wish Tom Lehrer would break his silence while he’s still here.
He does not mourn the muse that seemed to desert him after Vietnam made it harder to be funny about serious things. Or, as he once put it: “Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.”
Ah, such an innocent day when that was the benchmark of the death of political satire!
