Henry Louis Mencken
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Henry Louis Mencken. (1880 - 1956). American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar of American English.
Noteworthy
- Satirical reporting on the Scopes Trial, which he dubbed the "Monkey Trial".
- The term Menckenian describes combative rhetorical.
- Opponent of organized religion, theism, censorship, populism, and representative democracy.
- Supporter of scientific progress and evolution.
- Critical of osteopathy, chiropractic, and economics.
Controversies
- Early racism.
- Early Anti-semitism.
- Critized Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity,
