Mention Mencken and I say it’s time again to give that libertarian genius his due for helping to light up the dark pro-state pro-war pitfalls of political democracy today — and indeed all the way back to Ancient Greece when thinkers of the stature of Aristotle and Plato hit the vacuity of those who glibly equate Political Democacy with freedom and independence. Henry Louis Mencken, 1880—1956, known as either the “Bad Boy of Baltimore” or the “Sage of Baltimore,” was christened by Murray Rothbard as “The Joyous Libertarian.” In an article so entitled in the New Individualist Review in 1962, … Continue reading Mencken vs. Lincoln