Nov 17th, 2008 · As Barack Obama prepares to become America's first African-American president, writer Mark Oppenheimer discusses his recent article in Slate Magazine about how other minority groups see the possibility of one of their own becoming president.
Sep 28th, 2005 · A new crop of college students is getting comfortable after a few weeks on campuses across the United States. But essayist Mark Oppenheimer sees a very different group of freshmen than when he was a student, and wonders... Where have all the college hippies gone?
May 11th, 2005 · He is remembered as the father of the bomb. But the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer is more than how the world's most destructive weapon came to be. A new biography describes a complex, contradictory and at times mystical genius who defies easy labels.