Roll Over, Tom Paine, and Tell Fred Nietzsche the News

We’ve all heard the old joke about the rube who says, “If the King James Version was good enough for the Lord Jesus, it’s good enough for me.” Imagine my surprise, then, on finding Owen Paine chuckling, William F’Buckley-like, about the Scopes Trial, “Now truth be told, I enjoyed [William Jennings] Bryan’s insistence on the original text in Jacobean translation, over [Clarence] Darrow’s