‘Inherit the Wind,’ a fictionalized version of the Scopes Monkey Trial, comes to Curtain Call Front Street Theatre in Mokena

‘Inherit the Wind,’ a fictionalized version of the Scopes Monkey Trial, comes to Curtain Call Front Street Theatre in Mokena

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Op-ed: Laughing at the Scopes Monkey Trial

By Madeline Bodin ©2025 Telegraph Publishing LLC In 1925, 100 years ago this year, John Thomas Scopes lost his trial in Dayton, Tenn., a case that tested a new state law that made it illegal to teach evolution in public schools. Scopes lost the legal case, but the hearts and minds of most of the country were behind him. It wasn’t the reserved young high school teacher who won them over, but the cutting wit of reporter and opinion writer H.L. Men…