"The anniversary of the 'Monkey Trial' provides an occasion to remember that it didn't really settle what we assume it settled. Popular memory of the trial, reinforced by the 1960 movie Inherit the Wind, made it seem that evolution was triumphant and fundamentalism vanquished, but in fact the result was much more ambiguous. Anti-Darwinism didn't die in Dayton, Tenn., in July 1925—it just retreated temporarily from the national scene, to which it has now returned."
Via Ghost in the Machine, historian David Greenberg in Slate reevaluates the inheritance of the Scopes Trial.
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