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  • Last Week with H. L. Mencken (Feb. 3, 2023 edition)

    Last Week with H. L. Mencken (Feb. 3, 2023 edition)

    January 29 – “Inherit the Wind” is returning to the stage in Albuquerque: “This enthralling drama is a fictionalized account of the 1925 Scopes “Monkey” Trial, which resulted in John T. Scopes’ being convicted for teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution to a high school science class, contrary to a Tennessee law. The character of…

  • Last Week with H. L. Mencken (Jan. 27, 2023 edition)

    Last Week with H. L. Mencken (Jan. 27, 2023 edition)

    January 22 — Anthony J. DeBlasi on the intelligence of the American public: “H. L. Mencken had something to say about terminal dumbing, back in 1920, that makes me wonder if he was joking: ‘As democracy is perfected,’ he said, ‘the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people.…

  • Last Week with H. L. Mencken (Jan. 23, 2023 edition)

    Last Week with H. L. Mencken (Jan. 23, 2023 edition)

    See how writers were quoting Mencken last week and which quotations they used. January 16 — From Herb Caen at the Anderson Valley Advertiser: “What I consider the most cynical utterance in the entire literature of Americana — H.L. Mencken’s ‘No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public’ — presents a…

  • Last Week with H. L. Mencken

    Last Week with H. L. Mencken

    See how writers were quoting Mencken last week and which quotations they used. January 8 – from a book review about war in Afghanistan: “I think you could put 100 war memoirs on a shelf and they would not contain as many references to Western intellectuals as Rubin’s 290-page book, which mentions Herbert Marcuse, Susan…

  • More Information on “Mencken as Conservative or Liberal”

    More Information on “Mencken as Conservative or Liberal”

    (zoom information below) H. L. Mencken: A Conservative for Our Times? H. L. Mencken is famous for his pungent and still quoted views on politics and politicians. This panel co-sponsored by The Mencken Society (TMS) and the Mencken House (MH) explores the dimensions of Mencken’s views, theirconventional labeling as conservative, and how they might relate…

  • Mencken Day 2021

    Mencken Day 2021 will be held on September 11, 2021 but all events will be virtual. More information is at the Enoch Pratt Library’s at website. The day’s program: 10:30 a.m., Mencken Society Annual Meeting (Zoom only). 2 p.m., The 2021 Mencken Memorial Lecture (Zoom and Facebook Live). “The 2021 Mencken Memorial Lecture will be…

  • Mencken Day 2020 At the Pratt Library is Cancelled

    Due to the continuing Corona Panic all Pratt Library buildings will remain closed and all those Mencken Day events usually held at the library are cancelled.

  • The Collected Essays and Journalism of H. L. Mencken

    S. T. Joshi has begun issuing editions of Mencken’s early newspaper and magazine work as part of a long-range project titled The Collected Essays and Journalism of H. L. Mencken. He is issuing these books through Amazon’s CreateSpace (print) and Kindle (ebook) platforms. Eight volumes will contain material from the Smart Set. The first volume…

  • Eppur si muove

    BALTIMORE NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA PRESS RELEASE: A NEW CHAPTER FOR H.L. MENCKEN HOUSE Heritage Area Takes on House Restoration, Opening to Public as Museum Celebrating Life of the “Sage of Baltimore” [Contact: Jeffrey Buchheit 410-878-6411 • jbuchheit@baltimoreheritagearea.org] September 12, 2018 (Baltimore) — The Baltimore National Heritage Area (BNHA) today entered into a lease agreement with…

  • 13th Mencken Graveside Memorial (2018-01-28 14:00)

    The Mencken Graveside Memorial will once again be conducted by Oleg Panczenko at the Mencken gravesite at Loudon Park Cemetery, 3620 Wilkens Ave, Baltimore, MD. The brief memorial will be held Sunday, January 28, 2018 at 2:00 PM. Attendees are invited to retire to Spirits West, 2601 Wilkens Ave. after the memorial. Loudon Park Cemetery:…