Episode 34

Ep 34 HL Mencken and the Fight Against Progressivism

Published on: 12th April, 2024

Darryl Hart joins us to talk about the Sage of Baltimore and his war against the progressive, centralizing spirit of the early twentieth century.

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Welcome to the Chronicles podcast, a production of Chronicles Magazine, the original outlet for paleoconservative thought and a bastion of the authentic Right in America.

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CJay Engel

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CJay has written for Chronicles Magazine and most recently contributed an essay to The Paleoconservative Anthology, edited by Paul Gottfried.
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Ed Welsch

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Edward Welsch is the executive editor of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. He was previously a journalist covering the financial markets and energy industry for The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News from bureaus in Washington, D.C., New York, and Calgary, and was also the editor of financial newsletters. He is an undergraduate of St. Olaf College and a student of its Great Books program, and holds a master’s degree in Journalism and Communications from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.