I first heard Tom Lehrer in a course entitled Social Justice and 40 years later, his work is still resonating.
Wednesday, October 4th, 2006“By MAUREEN DOWD
New York Times
Published: October 4, 2006
Tom Lehrer said that political satire was rendered obsolete when Henry Kissinger won a Nobel Peace Prize for prolonging the Vietnam War.
But even the inventive Lehrer could never have imagined that Dr. Strangelove would get a second chance to contribute to misleading the public about a military catastrophe […]