1920's Media | "The Scopes Trial: Aftermath"

Editorial

By: H.L. Mencken

Date: September 14, 1925

Source: Mencken, H.L. "Aftermath" Baltimore Evening Sun, September 14, 1925. Available online at http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/menck05.htm#SCOPESD; website home page: http://www.positiveatheism.org (accessed April 24, 2003).

About the Author: Henry Louis Mencken (1880–1956) emerged as one of the nation's most renowned and controversial social commentators. By age twenty-five, Mencken had risen from entry-level reporter to editor of the Baltimore Herald. His criticism of American social norms, and his support of Germany throughout the First World War, brought great criticism. During the war, magazines and newspapers that normally printed Mencken's reports censored him and refused to publish his...