by H.L. Mencken WHEN THINGS get so balled up that the people of a country got to cut loose from some other country, and go it on their own hook, without asking no permission from nobody, excepting maybe God Almighty, then they ought to let everybody know why they done it, so that everybody can see they are not trying Continue Reading →
Mary Phagan, just a few weeks short of her 14th birthday, was an Atlanta child laborer who was planning to attend the Confederate Memorial Day parade on April 26, 1913. She had just come to collect her $1.20 pay from National Pencil Company superintendent Leo Frank, when she was knocked down, struck, and wounded by […] Continue Reading →
WE ARE proud to present today, on the 107th anniversary of the foul murder of Mary Phagan, the third and concluding part of our audio version of an extremely rare contemporary book on the murder and the trial of Leo Frank, her killer, entitled The Frank Case — read by Vanessa Neubauer. https://theamericanmercury.org/audio/the-frank-case/The%20Frank%20Case%20-%20Atlanta%20Publishing%20Company%20-%201913%20-%20Part%203%20-%20Chapters%2017-end.mp3 It becomes obvious in this concluding segment Continue Reading →
THE AMERICAN MERCURY now presents the second part (of three parts) of our audio version of what is probably the most hard-to-find book on the murder of Mary Phagan and the trial of Leo Frank — 1913’s anonymously published The Frank Case — read by Vanessa Neubauer. https://theamericanmercury.org/audio/the-frank-case/The%20Frank%20Case%20-%20Atlanta%20Publishing%20Company%20-%201913%20-%20Part%202%20-%20Chapters%2010-16.mp3 The Frank Case: Inside Story of Georgia’s Greatest Murder Mystery now continues Continue Reading →
by Ron Unz ALTHOUGH my own academic background is in theoretical physics, I’m the first to admit that field seems in the doldrums these days compared with human evolutionary biology. The greatest physics discoveries of the last couple of years–the Higgs Boson and strong evidence for Cosmological Inflation–merely confirm the well-established beliefs that physicists have had since before I entered Continue Reading →