I keep a number of the books by H.L. Mencken and Albert Jay Nock within the easiest reach
on the bookshelves behind the desk in my little home office/studio. Including but not limited
to both of Mencken's Chrestomathys and Prejudices: A Selection, not to mention
The Bathtub Hoax and Minority Report; and, Mr. Nock's On Doing the Right
Thing, Mr. Jefferson, Our Enemy, the State, Free Speech and Plain Language,
Memoirs of a Superfluous Man, and Snoring as a Fine Art. Their erudition is to be
envied; their suspicion of State power to be exhumed as often as possible. (As should be those
of Nock's protege Frank Chodorov, whose Fugitive Essays occupies a similar place . . .)