
Adapting Robert Oppenheimer’s Story to Film, Plus Greta Gerwig on Becoming a Director
The New Yorker Radio Hour
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The Lessons of the Oppenheimer Story
You've talked about Oppenheimer as a public intellectual and a dissident. Do you see any parallels in the contemporary world of a figure like Oppenheimer and how scientists do or do not speak out? Well, this is one of the lessons that's very current about the Oppenheimer story. What happened to him in 1954, I believe, sent a message to several generations of scientists here in America, but abroad,. That scientists should keep in their narrow lane. They shouldn't become public intellectuals. And if they dared to do this, they could be tard and feathered.
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