There Is No News*

Over a period of eighty years, hundreds of critics have been laboring to improve the taste of the American people in music, literature, drama and politics. And today, as a result, Nevin, Tobani and Tosti are program favorites over Brahms, Beethoven and Bach; James Oliver Curwood is thirty thousand times more popular than James Branch [...]

This titillating attempt toward tastefully toasting a terrible teetotalling totalitarian tyrant is from G.K. Chesterton, The End of the Armistice, ch. XXXI, in vol. V of The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1987), pp. 640-42: