tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6051744883907551402.post682235019877556276..comments2024-03-27T19:11:37.620-04:00Comments on You Don't Say: The Sun turns on H.L. MenckenJohn McIntyrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03559687583130468871noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6051744883907551402.post-2407425490980755232022-03-14T23:03:11.260-04:002022-03-14T23:03:11.260-04:00Many of Mencken's columns in the Sun celebrate...Many of Mencken's columns in the Sun celebrated all things Germans (including, repeatedly, sauerkraut) even as Germany behaved aggressively in the world. <br />But, the thing that has always made me uneasy about him, is his pronounced prejudice against women – especially wives. It was tiresome and dull.<br />NealMediahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06829708487653755422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6051744883907551402.post-58115741765523720572022-03-12T14:05:01.097-05:002022-03-12T14:05:01.097-05:00Further to contract the recent savagery against Am...Further to contract the recent savagery against America's greatest polemicists, my Avant-Garde Classics is just published, via Amazon KDP, TWO JEWS' APPRECIATIONS OF HLM by reprinting books written in the 1920s by the Jewish critics Isaac Goldberg and Benjamin de Casseres, both of whom were major independent critics at the time. In my own critiques of anti-Semitism I'd sooner attack institutions that excluded over writers who deprecating and that inflating mild-anti-Semitism implicitly honors serious anti-Semites. This last move I'd rather not make.richard Kostelanetzhttp://www.richadkostelanetz.comnoreply@blogger.com