A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Friday, August 4, 2017

H.L. MENCKEN: THE DAYS TRILOGY

M. L Mencken, The Days Trilogy, Expanded Edition: Happy Days; Newspaper Days; Heathen Days; Days Revisited: Unpublished Commentary, edited by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (New York: Library of America (2014) (From "Drill for a Rookie": "I made up my mind at once that my true and natural allegiance was to the Devil's party, and it has been my firm belief ever since that al; persons who devote themselves to forcing virtue on their fellow men deserve nothing better than kicks in the pants. Years later I put that belief into a proposition which I ventured to call Mencken's Law,to wit: Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel. The moral theologians, unhappily , have paid no heed to this contribution to their science, and so Mencken's Law must wait for recognition until the dawn of a more enlightened age." Id. 224, 234.).