This essay appears in the Winter 2014 issue of Modern Age. To subscribe now, go here.   H. L. Mencken occupies a unique if ironic place in the history of Friedrich Nietzsche’s American reception. Through the first full-length account of Nietzsche in English, Mencken did more to popularize the German philosopher in America than … Continue reading Mencken’s Nietzsche:[br] A Centenary Observance