"People Have to Watch What They Say": What Horace, Juvenal, and 9/11 Can Tell Us about Satire and History

Satire

“…Some media outlets at the time, like essayist Roger Rosenblatt in an editorial for Time magazine's September 24 issue, would go so far as to claim that irony was dead. [147] Some critics of Mark Twain see Huckleberry Finn as racist and offensive, missing the point that its author clearly intended it to be satire (racism being in fact only one of a number of Mark Twain's known concerns attacked in Huckleberry Finn). [148][149] This same misconception was suffered by the main character of the 1960s British television comedy satire Till Death Us Do Part.…”