He was the Attorney for the Damned, the Great Defender, the champion of free thought who skewered biblical literalism at the Scopes Monkey Trial and the master courtroom rhetorician whose three-day ...

In 1925, when he volunteered to defend John Scopes' right to teach evolution, Clarence Darrow had already reached the top of his profession. The year before, in a sensational trial in Chicago, he ...

Defense lawyer Clarence Darrow once said the criminal justice system “merely institutionalizes revenge,” meting out punishment that does not in and of itself deter crime. While known to occasionally ...

In “Keeping the Faith,” Brenda Wineapple finds an ongoing battle over the soul of America in a century-old trial. Clarence Darrow, left, and William Jennings Bryan at the Dayton, Tenn., courthouse in ...

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