Niall Ferguson: Henry Kissinger Reappraised, with Andrew Roberts
Intelligence Squared
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The Searing Experience of Kissinger
A lot of historians have attributed to Kissinger, that it was Weimar and the chaos of Germany that led him to be an orderist. You think it's a much more complicated story than that? Kissinger had to put up with quite a bit of psychobabble from writers who wanted to infer that he was in some way hostile to democracy,. This is nonsense. The experience of totalitarianism made him a committed believer. Not only in American democracy, but also in the idea of freedom about which he wrote with extraordinary emotional commitment.
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