Mencken, thou shouldst be living at this hour

[Doug Henwood]

Carrol Cox wrote:


>Cockburn flirts with anti-semitic language. Mencken was aggressively
>anti-semitic. I'm not sure we need him all that badly.

This coming from a Pound scholar?

Mencken had lots of flaws. But he was a brilliant polemicist and funny as hell.

Doug