H. L. Mencken
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 11 Jan
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American journalist and outspoken critic of fundamentalism
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentMark GagnonCamp Gagnon · The Bible Belt: How Sin, Corruption, and Power Control Ameri... · 0:14 · 11 Jan
…Mencken coined it while mocking the South during the Scopes Monkey Trial.…
Mark GagnonCamp Gagnon · The Bible Belt: How Sin, Corruption, and Power Control Ameri... · 0:12 · 11 Jan
…In 1925, journalist H.L.…
Nathan W. BinghamRenewing Your Mind · J. Gresham Machen · 21:41 · Jan 2025
…And Clarence Darrow sort of ran circles around him. And as many of the newspaper folk said, Darrow set America laughing at fundamentalism. Darrow made Bryant look ridiculous. And some of the media there, led by H.L. Mencken, a notorious unbeliever, but a very effective writer and witty man, used the Scopes Trial to launch a full-scale attack against fundam…
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