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Entry: Is There Conservatism Beyond Christianity? (or how to book a mental vacation in Athens or Valhalla) Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/is_there_conservatism_beyond_christianity_or_how_to_book_a_mental_vacation#23186 Post contents: Was H.L. Mencken an authentic American conservative and a paleocon icon? If he was, then how do we reconcile his own revulsion with Judeo-Christianity and his support of Nietzsche? Anyone reading his early book on the German philosopher (<b>The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche</b> which can be easily downloaded <a href="http://books.google.com/books/pdf/The_Philosophy_of_Friedrich_Nietzsche.pdf?id=nnEOAAAAIAAJ&output=pdf&sig=eEc26Cqm4LObsxVeHLKa2oI6p84">here</a>, will see that Mencken's criticisms are not far from Benoist's. Given the praise Mencken gets as a stalwart of the "Old Right" by folks like Murray Rothbard (in his recently published book <b>The Betrayal of the American Right</b>), it's hard for me to reconcile this Nietzsche-bashing with Mencken's positions - to say nothing of those of Nock. Sent at: 2008 09 07