Great article. I'd love to read the work you mention here if it exists: > I read a work of great insight on the corrosive effect of irony on American culture,

Great article. I'd love to read the work you mention here if it exists: > I read a work of great insight on the corrosive effect of irony on American culture, critiquing it as a kind of anesthesia poisoning the pop cultural artifacts out of which the American soul is now woven.