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Niall Ferguson: Henry Kissinger Reappraised, with Andrew Roberts

Intelligence Squared

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Kissinger's Criticism of Realism

"I realized that the sense of humor, which is clearly there, is much more grout to Marx than Woody Allen. I realized he was actually a Dr. Faustus and Fritz Kramer was Mephistopheles." "Most of his work, really from the fifties, through into the mid-1960s, is a critique of realism," she says. 'There's a practical way in which he was an idealist'

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