On H.L. Mencken
Today is the birthday of the great libertarian pundit, original thinker, humorist, author, critic and journalist H.L. Mencken, a.k.a. “The Sage of Baltimore” (1880-1956). Mencken’s was the kind of iconoclastic mind I adore, an amalgam of his heroes Mark Twain, Freidrich Neitzsche, and Herbert Spencer. This is the result of his being an autodidact — […]