Rothbard on Mencken I recall there was at least one fellow Mencken-fan among the regular Gene Expression readership. It's a pity his work isn't read more often nowadays. PJ O'Rourke (who I think holds a HL Mencken fellowship at Cato and is almost seen as a contemporary version of Mencken) is funny but not as funny or learned as Mencken was. Lew Rockwell sometimes does have really great stuff, especially its historical material, and publishes Rothbard's tribute to Mencken. I think as is his wont, Rothbard makes Mencken out to be a much more systematic libertarian than he ever was. IMHO Mencken was anything but systematic or an ideologue, which was what made even his most polemical political pieces so funny. Nonetheless a piece worth reading.