"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The Legacy Of Edmund Wilson
"Wilson ended The Cold War and the Income Tax with a plangent confession: 'I have finally come to feel that this country, whether or not I continue to live in it, is no longer any place for me.' The nation’s most distinguished literary critic was a stranger at home because, as a good American, he detested militarism and cant."
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