Sackler Donations Are Back… And No, That’s Not Good News On September 18, 1926, H.L. Mencken wrote the following in The Sun, Baltimore’s daily newspaper: Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by … [Read more...] about You Cannot Be Serious.