Henry Louis Mencken, the widely popular social critic and iconoclastic intellectual of the first half of the twentieth century, wrote prolifically on higher education and educators in every possible format: books, book reviews, newspaper columns, magazine articles, journal essays, editorials, letters, diaries, and even testimony for a government agency. His perceptive observations about the educators he labeled "gogues" and "obergogues," as well as about institutions and ideas of American higher education, continue to resonate in dozens of anthologies and biographical volumes published since his death in 1956. Mencken addressed the state of what he labeled the "rolling mills" of higher education with untempered candor and unsettling humor, writing extensively and insightfully on pedagogy, curriculum, educators, and educational institutions. Mencken's writings on education are part of a tradition of humorous criticism that began long before his time and continues today.