Fool me once…
By Ben OlsonReader Staff It’s been five years since Editor-in-Chief Zach Hagadone almost broke the town. In the history of the Sandpoint Reader, only one publication date has ever lined up perfectly with April...
Tagged: satire
The death of comedy
A political tragedy By Zach HagadoneReader Staff It seems to be a trend that as political regimes — even whole civilizations — begin to collapse, people not only keep laughing but laugh louder. The...
2026 year in preview
What could be in the coming year By Reader Staff While it may be a fool’s errand to predict the future, we’ve been doing it at the Reader every year since 2020 — getting...
From Colbert to South Park, making fun of Trump has never been more important
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff In Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler complained that British propaganda worked better than its German counterpoint in World War I because the former portrayed the latter as savage brutes (“huns”) pillaging...
Faith in truth, or truth in faith?
Gary Shteyngart’s newest book, Vera, or Faith, is maybe the most heartfelt satire ever written By Zach HagadoneReader Staff The word vera is alternately translated as a Latin root for “truth” or, in the...
2025 year in preview
By Reader Staff Even if you’ve never read any of the works of 19th-century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, you’ve probably heard someone repeat his famous line: “A pessimist is an optimist in full possession...
Civil War(s)
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Though art often imitates life, that’s not a good thing when the art in question is a vision of what a contemporary U.S. civil war might look like. That’s...
Idiocracy, the documentary
By Ben Olson Reader Staff When Mike Judge’s film Idiocracy was released in 2006, it landed in a different world. This was years before a buffoon named Donald Trump started questioning Barack Obama’s birthplace,...
Single in Sandpoint: 8 Signs The End is Near (the end of summer, that is)
By Scarlette Quille Reader Columnist There are some of you who may be new to the area. You may be under the notion that the passing of seasons is typically accompanied by a change...
