Ohad Reiss-Sorokin, a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, is writing a book on intellectual circles and the intellectual life of interwar Vienna.
The actual exchange between Oppenheimer and Einstein was far less cordial than the film’s version.
Moyn’s Cold War liberals might rightly be called “post-Holocaust liberals.”
Amid the social turmoil of postwar Vienna, Othmar Spann’s class auditorium became a political battlefield.