We’re surrounded by those dunces, in the UN, in Congress, on Wall Street, in the White House, the state house, in think tanks, in associations, in non-profits.

The enduring "Dunces," which has grown to become particularly revered by New Orleanians, tells the story of a grandiloquent, Uptown-dwelling 30-year-old -- still living with his dear mother ...

Pegasus Books; 256 pages; $25.95 and £20. S LOTHFUL, FLATULENT and imperious, Ignatius Reilly was a wholly original anti-hero when he burst from the pages of “A Confederacy of Dunces” in 1980.

The last news on the Confederacy of Dunces movie, which has cycled through a handful of directors, actors, screenwriters, and studios since the early ‘80s, was that Zach Galifianakis had signed ...

Ignatius J. Reilly statueTHEN: In 1980, LSU Press published "A Confederacy of Dunces," a rollicking comic novel by John Kennedy Toole, an unknown author who had committed suicide 11 years earlier ...

And if we revert to selfish form during this economic crisis, then McCain’s cynical calculation is correct: America is a confederacy of dunces.

The dunces' bullspin is different: "Rejoice," they say. "The tide has turned. Equities are at all-time highs, we are in the right stocks at the right time. And, oh yes, raise the fees." ...

NickOfferman’s”A Confederacy of Dunces” is center stage at the HuntingtonTheatrethrough Dec. 20, but before there was even a curtain call,John Kennedy Toole’s novel already hada cult ...

PETER HITCHENS: Now that we live in a Kingdom of Dunces, scandals and crises have become normal By PETER HITCHENS FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY Published: 21:00 EDT, 25 May 2024 | Updated: 03:34 EDT, 26 ...