Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.” His warning always comes to mind at this time of year when it is ...

To mark the 100th anniversary of the launch of the Great War, The Atlantic has published a special commemorative edition featuring dispatches from soldiers at the front and articles by such major ...

"I think it's a shame the way they are prosecuting her... It's a dirty shame." — H.L. Mencken, editor, American Mercury. Bryan won the battle, and John Scopes was found guilty of teaching evolution.

When evolution and creationism clashed in Dayton, Tennessee, the national news media was there, including Jazz Age newspaper celebrity H. L. Mencken. Articles, cartoons, and reports from the ...

Americans are sickened of an “idealism that is oblique, confusing, dishonest, and ferocious,” as H.L. Mencken wrote a hundred ... Obama is now on a book tour issuing calls for honest ...