American journalist and writer (1880–1956)
Desmond Lachman warns that some of President-elect Donald Trump’s ideas could slow the American economy. H.L. Mencken, the late American journalist, famously wrote that “Democracy is the theory that the…
Editors at National Review Online lament recent changes in one Midwestern state. The cynic H. L. Mencken once quipped that “democracy is the theory that the common people know what…
Editors at Issues and Insights explore one long-term impact of government’s questionable response to COVID-19. It’s fair to say Americans, especially the pre-revolution colonists, have always had a healthy skepticism…
Here are some recent COVID-19 trends from the available data for North Carolina.
Jonathan Turley writes for The Hill about fellow academics’ attacks on him after he offered congressional testimony favoring Republicans. American journalist H.L. Mencken once observed, “Say what you will about…
In a recent Spectator article called “Lying with science: a guide to myth debunking,” Matt Ridley begins by observing that, “Pseudoscience is on the rise – and the media is completely…
Kevin Williamson of National Review Online places some of America’s most well-known political humorists on the psychologist’s couch. The great American humorists have something in common: hatred. H. L. Mencken…
Thomas Donlan‘s latest editorial commentary for Barron’s focuses on the New York billionaire’s apparent win in the Republican presidential contest. The most adept of self-promoters has won the 2016 nomination…
In this recent Wall Street Journal piece, UNC professor Peter Coclanis discusses the loco locavore climate around Chapel Hill. Big agra, as he terms it, has made food much less…
If you think it’s bad when a company just starts doing business with willing customers without first getting government approval. That is the case with regard to Uber in Little…
Michael Barone reviews in his latest column a book that examines the negative impact of a liberalism informed by snobbery. The novels of Sinclair Lewis, the journalism of H. L.…
I have recently written that the statists rely on a bunch of hobgoblins to frighten people and (as Mencken put it), “make them clamorous to be led to safety” by…