(Left to right): Patrick Buchanan, Paul Gottfried, Richard Spencer, Christian Kopff, John Derbyshire, Steve Sailer, and H.L. Mencken
The H.L. Mencken Club has chosen the weekend of November 9-11 for its 2012 meeting. Please save this date and plan to join us for the Fifth Annual H.L. Mencken Club meeting.
Paul Gottfried
We are not yet accepting registrations for the conference, but we hope you’ll make a tax-deductible contribution to the H.L. Mencken Club by clicking on this link, which takes you to our donation page.
Contributions will help defray the expenses of the first-rate speakers we hope to invite. In addition, we would like to offer scholarships to young people who would otherwise not be able to attend.
We’ll be meeting this year at a different hotel: the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel on the grounds of the Baltimore Washington International (BWI) Airport. This hotel is near our previous location and will be just as convenient for anyone flying into BWI Airport or traveling by car. The accommodations should be excellent.
Although we are still working on the details, we can promise that our program will maintain the standard set at previous gatherings. The H.L. Mencken Club is known for its willingness to discuss fearlessly a wide range of scholarly and political topics -- and to do so at a high intellectual level.
At the same time, our meetings provide an occasion to meet old friends and to make new ones who share common interests and concerns.
Our meeting this year will fall just a few days after the national election. But our speakers will focus not on the election results but on deeper issues facing our nation. We have learned from bitter experience that victories by one party or the other do not solve our problems as a society or as a threatened civilization.
This conference will deal with critical turning points in American history. We shall be examining the received judgments about these periods of change but then offer less prescribed interpretations that one is not likely to hear presented at conventional academic gatherings. As always, your participation in our discussion will be vital to the success of our gathering.
Paul Gottfried, President, The HL Mencken Club