Protocols of Machismo, Part 2: On the Hidden Connection Between Henry...
Yesterday, I posted Part 1 of this excerpt from Chapter 9 of The Reactionary Mind. Today, I post Part 2. • • • • • What is it about being a great power that renders the imagining of its own demise so...
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All this talk of arming teachers and training children to rush psychopaths who are outfitted with machine guns semi-automatic weapons reminds me of a moment in high school. But first, a recap. In the...
View ArticleIt’s 9/11. Do you know where Henry Kissinger is?
Readers who grew up in the New York area in the 70s will remember the “It’s 10 pm. Do you know where your children are?” tagline. Well, it’s 9/11, the 40th anniversary of the coup that overthrew...
View ArticleI feel about Henry Kissinger the way Edmund Burke felt about Warren Hastings
I feel about Henry Kissinger the way Edmund Burke felt about Warren Hastings: We charge this Offender with…nothing, that does not argue a total extinction of all moral principle; that does not manifest...
View ArticleNo Safe Havens: From Henry Kissinger to Barack Obama
Thomas Schelling at a meeting of 12 prominent Harvard professors with Henry Kissinger in May 1970, just after Nixon had announced the invasion (though not the secret bombing) of Cambodia: As we see it,...
View ArticleWhen Henry Edited Hannah
In the early 1950s, Henry Kissinger edited the journal Confluence. Among the writers he published there was Hannah Arendt. Their editorial relationship was fraught. His edits were heavy; her...
View ArticleMachtpolitik
From Greg Grandin, Kissinger’s Shadow: Douglas Brinkley: You called Henry Kissinger a genius, and you get a kind of twinkle whenever you mention Kissinger. What is it about Henry Kissinger that you...
View ArticleClusterfuck of Corruption at NYT Book Review
Greg Grandin takes to Gawker to report on a clusterfuck of corruption at the New York Times Book Review: This Sunday, the New York Times Book Review will publish a review of the first volume of Niall...
View ArticleNYT Public Editor Says NYTBR Conflict of Interest Is a Conflict of Interest
Margaret Sullivan, the New York Times public editor, writes a quietly devastating critique of the preferred authorized biographer writing a review of the authorized biography of Kissinger: In the...
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