In Defense of Women is H. L. Mencken’s 1918 book on women and the relationship between the sexes. Some laud the book as progressive while others brand it as reactionary. While Mencken didn’t champion women’s rights, he described women as wiser in many novel and observable ways, while demeaning average men. According to Mencken’s biographer, Fred Hobson: Depending on the position of the reader, he was either a great defender of women’s rights or, as a critic labelled him in 1916, ‘the greates ...

To paraphrase the late, great HL Mencken, "For every complex problem there is a train-of-thought this is logical, efficient, and completely misguided." Analytical thinking is a subconscious Western philosophy that often gets us into trickiest of pickles leading to a kind of logical insanity. But if we are mindful of this subconcious philosophy of top-down Deductive-Analytical thinking then we can better make sense of the world around us allowing us to take more control of our lives and caree ...

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Essay Questions is the podcast in which your hosts, Joe & Josh, read an essay that's interesting to them and/or of historical importance, and then talk about it. Pretty simple, right? Well, we like to think we're using these essays as a starting point for conversations that end up going in strange and surprising directions. Nothing makes us happier than dragging luminaries like Mencken, Orwell, Adorno, and Didion into our own long-standing obsessions with conspiracy theories, the National Se ...

Think About It engages today's leading thinkers in conversations about powerful ideas and how language can change the world.