MIT

Not that long ago, the mission of higher education was to educate by teaching students critical reasoning, the skills of open discourse, and a broad context of information to help them understand the world, our country’s values, and the economic a

Lars and I discussed the recent Oscars, notably the win for "Oppenheimer," the biopic about the physicist who headed the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bombs during the 1940s.  I shared my connections to the Manhattan Project, in

I just watched the highly praised film, “Oppenheimer,” which got me musing about history, my own and America’s.