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  • A writer for our times: A tribute to H.L. Mencken

    A tribute to a writer of renown on the 145th anniversary of his birth. They don’t make them like this any more.

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  • Schnell Post: Bury the lead

    It comes as no surprise that the American media is nothing more than a ideologically partisan entertainment industry. To be fair, it has been this way for a long time, and the idea of an “objective” press has always been something of a fallacy. Of course, everything gets better with practice, and over time the…

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  • The Elephant in the Room

    In 1814, Ivan Krylov (1769–1844), poet and fabulist, wrote a fable entitled “The Inquisitive Man”, which tells of a man who goes to a museum and notices all sorts of tiny things, but fails to notice an elephant.1 I thought it appropriate to reference a Russian author given our current news cycle. First, a disclaimer:…

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