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The Race to Make Hollywood’s First Atomic Bomb Movie

The Race to Make Hollywood’s First Atomic Bomb Movie

Before Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, the World Nearly Got Ayn Rand’s ”Tribute to Free Enterprise”

By Greg Mitchell | July 17, 2023

Maggie O’Farrell on Childhood, Art, Money, and Marriage in 16th-Century Florence

Maggie O’Farrell on Childhood, Art, Money, and Marriage in 16th-Century Florence

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | July 17, 2023

What America’s Current Drug Binge Reveals About the Post Neoliberal 2020s

What America’s Current Drug Binge Reveals About the Post Neoliberal 2020s

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | July 17, 2023

On Trying to Teach Brian Doyle’s “Leap” to the Post-9/11 Generation

On Trying to Teach Brian Doyle’s “Leap” to the Post-9/11 Generation

Steve Edwards Wonders If It’s Possible to Translate One Generation’s Trauma to the Next

By Steve Edwards | July 14, 2023

How Single-Family Zoning Laws Reinforce Existing Race and Class Divisions

How Single-Family Zoning Laws Reinforce Existing Race and Class Divisions

Richard D. Kahlenberg on the Decades-Long Fight for Affordable and Equitable Housing

By Richard D. Kahlenberg | July 14, 2023

On the Refugee Stories That Begin Where <em>Casablanca</em> Ends

On the Refugee Stories That Begin Where Casablanca Ends

Tabea Alexa Linhard Explains Why Refugee History is Everyone’s History

By Tabea Alexa Linhard | July 14, 2023

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How J. Robert Oppenheimer Was Influenced by the <em>Bhagavad Gita</em>

How J. Robert Oppenheimer Was Influenced by the Bhagavad Gita

Alok A. Khorana on the Concept of Dharma, the Manhattan Project, and Oppenheimer's Well-Worn Copy of the Gita

By Alok A. Khorana | July 10, 2023

The Warnings of a Holocaust Scholar about Today’s World of the Big Lie

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