And yet, it strikes me, and I read your columns closely ... when the candidate says what he’s gonna do, and he, as H.L. Mencken said of democracy, you know, that people get what they want ...

Former CNN anchor Jim Acosta did just that in a Substack column on Friday ... Subscribe to our morning newsletter, Crash Course. As H.L. Mencken reminded us in 1927 when it comes to reporters ...

From high atop this Doric column, Washington has a commanding ... first editions by Charles Darwin, H.L. Mencken, and Edgar Allan Poe. A "cathedral of books," right in the heart of the city.

Baltimore Sun journalist H.L. Mencken was no prophet, but that didn’t stop him from attempting to prophesy. On one occasion, a century ago, he predicted a moral disaster for the country.

The Scopes “monkey trial” garnered international attention, and the battle that was fought continues in some form in other ...

Which reminds me of a wise saying of H.L. Mencken that Ronald Reagan loved to quote: “For every problem, there’s a solution that’s neat, plausible and wrong.” Trump’s tireless tweeting often brings ...

“Every complex problem has a simple solution that doesn't work.” —H. L. Mencken I can always tell when a new self-help book has become a bestseller because clients spontaneously introduce it ...

H. L. Mencken once called the South the “The Sahara of the Bozart” (punning on the French beaux-arts), lamenting the decline and fall of that region from a great civilization to a “gargantuan paradise ...

Confusing, isn’t it? Surely, the Baltimore journalist H.L. Mencken couldn’t have been predicting our contemporary scene when he said a century ago, “On some great and glorious day the plain ...

I began my journalism career at The Federalist, an outlet that was founded with only one official editorial position; ending the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. I agreed with it at the time ...