Forbes.comNo, says Washington Post book critic
Jonathan Yardley, who edited
H.L. Mencken's posthumous memoir. "These people are self-important pipsqueaks. I don't respect a single one of them, much less think that a single one of them deserves to be compared to H.L.M. I do have a measure of respect for
David Brooks, whose knee doesn't seem to jerk in his sleep, but he's no Mencken and I suspect he'd be the first to say so."
