By Richard Brookhiser 5/02/05 12:00am

Alas, Poor Newspapers! We Knew Them, Rupert

Terry Teachout has a lively arts blog called “About Last Night” (www.terryteachout.com), in which he reviews the passing scene and his own life. When he is not doing these things, he urges artists and other readers to get with the Internet age. We are slow learners, so he can sound like the sergeant-major barking orders Read More

By Adam Kirsch 11/11/02 12:00am

The Scourge of the ‘Booboisie,’ Briskly, Judiciously Measured

The Skeptic: A Life of H.L. Mencken , by Terry Teachout. HarperCollins, 410 pages, $29.95.

It’s tempting, when trying to give a sense of H.L. Mencken’s place in American literature, to reach for lofty comparisons. Alistair Cooke called him the American Voltaire; he was also a popularizer of ideas like Shaw, a foe of religion Read More