[golux]

You’re both right.
WFB was great and did so much in part because he was so funny.
Coincidentally, his mantle seems to be passing to Greenfield.

[nathanbedford]

What about Marc Steyn I regard him to be the wittiest writer currently in action.

Certainly satire can change the political landscape. If you can denude academia of its pretensions with satire, you can change the way whole generations think.

To conclude otherwise is to say that Voltaire had no influence on world history.