Kai Bird ’73 publishes New York Times guest essay on ‘The Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer’
Bird studied history at Carleton.
Kai Bird ’73 published a guest essay titled “The Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer” in the New York Times opinion section. He writes about the targeting of Oppenheimer by McCarthyism and how that compares to the current political realities of the U.S. and other countries.