Harper’s Magazine
In The Ideal of Culture, his latest and best anthology of essays, Joseph Epstein devotes one of his chapters to a discussion of wit. He observes, “Wit is the expression of those who understand and are able to formulate and deflate…
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Joseph Epstein on “Old Age and Other Laughs”
In his latest anthology of essays, The Ideal of Culture, Joseph Epstein devotes a chapter to “old age and other laughs.” He was 75 when he wrote the essay in 2012 for Commentary magazine. He and I are among the…
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