When Power Can’t Take a Joke

The Bible already had it figured out: don’t curse the king, a bird might hear you and snitch. Leaders haven’t grown a sense of humor since. The Old Tricks Hitler jailed comics like Werner Finck for slipping jokes past the censors. Ordinary Germans lost their heads—literally—for cracks about the Führer. Mussolini closed satire mags and Continue reading When Power Can’t Take a Joke