“Perhaps Inherit the Wind’s biggest disservice to Bryan happens in the film’s third act. It climaxes with his surrogate blathering like a fool, trying to give one last speech that no one’s interested in, and seeking Biblical verse as the answer for everything. And that’s not the worst of it. In terms of historical narrative, the greatest lies are those of omission. The fact is that, a century ago, many of America’s most prominent evolutionists were also Social Darwinists who, in the name of ‘progress’, advocated for the sterilization of the poor, indigent, and disabled under the auspices of improving the ‘fitness’ of humanity.”
— B Duncan Moench in UnHerd magazine