Movie lovers worldwide are indulging in the Nolan experience, many of them as we speak. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a blockbuster at the box office. Cillian Murphy’s portrayal of J. Robert Oppenheimer has already made it to the Oscar talks in town. If you have already watched the movie, you will probably still remember the scene wherein Oppenheimer makes his first visit to the University of California and meets Albert Einstein near the pond. Oppenheimer started teaching at the University of California Berkeley in 1929, and he gathered a dedicated following of student admirers that

coalesced around his genius before he took the world-changing decision to get on board with the Manhattan Project.

University of California(UC) continues to produce globally influential leaders and set potentially influential political and societal practices in motion. UC Berkeley’s Journal of Right Wing Studies (JRWS) recently launched its first ever journal. The event came into the spotlight, given the political climate in the US. However, JRWS proclaims that it is an open access, non ideological journal that ‘seeks to promote research, dialogue, and debate on all aspects of right wing politics, past and present, in the West and around the globe.’

UC Berkeley was established in 1868 as the University of California and is the state's first landgrant university and the founding campus of the University of California system. The institute’s alumni include Eric Schmidt (chairman and ex-CEO of Google), Steve Wozniak (co-founder of Apple), Gordon Moore (co-founder of Intel), Paul Jacobs(chairman and ex-CEO of Qualcomm), and Robert Gaskins(creator of PowerPoint). We dedicate this special issue to the prestigious alumni of the institution.