Henry Louis Mencken was a contemporary and acquaintance of Albert Jay Nock. In The Superfluous Men, a volume of comparative essays compiled by Robert M. Crunden (ISI Books, 1999), Mencken is described as “an enormously prolific writer and editor of newspapers and magazines” who “had great impact on college students and the educated young adultsContinue reading “Demagogue and Demaslave”
Monthly Archives: January 2012
Village Idiot Refuses to Look for a Job
“I refuse to look for a job in this economy until the government makes the minimum wage a living wage.” Thus spake an unidentified twenty-ish male follower of the “occupy movement” who was shown just long enough to spout this idiotic conviction on one of the network news broadcasts in the fall of 2011. IfContinue reading “Village Idiot Refuses to Look for a Job”
Albert Jay Nock 