Jill Lepore on Parents’ Rights and the Culture War
The New Yorker Radio Hour
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Evolution and the Monkey Trial
In 19 25, biology teacher john scopes spiral to fame in the legal battle that became known as the monkey trial. The existence of man in the prehistoric world was denied and n humans come from. What happens after we die? Like, of course, that's jus going to be sparky. A hundred years later, what's what are the sparks that are flying everywhere are, in some ways, kind of the same questions. Can people change? What? What does race mean? And then this big, big question about what's the relationship between parents, authority over their children and the state's authority over parents and children. That's hastory an gil laport.
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