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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle15><font size=3 color="#7c0a89"
face="Arial Black"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black"'>Mencken
had many virtues, but also was, as Carrol points out, quite benightedly
anti-Jewish, and also, though ambivalently, racist. Check out his diary. All
these qualities come through in it. Moreover, his reputation for anti-religious
enlightenment, though deserved in many ways, needs careful examination. He tended
to go somewhat light on Catholicism, mostly because he saw the temperance
movement and prohibition as anti-Catholic (It was.) and the Church as an ally
against them.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle15><font size=3 color="#7c0a89"
face="Arial Black"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black"'>Basically,
he wasn’t much of a thinker. He was, among other things, an absurdly committed
laissez-fairist and privatizer. At one point he opposed sidewalks, as a matter
of policy, because they were a public service.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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Signature" <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span><![endif]--><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Christopher Rhoades D˙kema<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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