Editor’s Note: This post stays pinned to the top so first-time visitors see it before the articles below.
This site pairs real, current news with a short piece written “in the voice” of a sharp historical critic — H.L. Mencken, Ambrose Bierce, Finley Peter Dunne’s Mr. Dooley, Will Rogers, and other guest voices from America’s past. Each essay imagines how that particular writer might have reacted, were they alive today, to something actually happening in the news right now.
The humor and the argument both depend a little on knowing the voice behind them — what Mencken despised, what Bierce refused to believe, what Mr. Dooley noticed from behind his bar on Archey Road. If none of that rings a bell yet, that’s exactly what the About page is for: a short introduction to who these writers were, why we keep inviting them back, and the idea that history does not repeat, but it does rhyme.
Start with the About page → Then come back and read what’s below.
Every essay on this site is AI-reconstructed stylistic pastiche, clearly labeled as such — never a real quote.
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