3min chapter

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps cover image

"What Hitchens Would Make of the Left" with Matt Johnson

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps

CHAPTER

Henry Kissinger's Biography

Peter Bergen: The hitchens that looms large just from the past few decades of his life has been co-opted by neoconservatives. He was a semi hawkish pro Iraq war individual rights small L liberal yet there's this whole period of his life where he wrote entire books about how, you know, Henry Kissinger should be in the Hague and should be in prison for war crimes.Bergen: There's definitely overlap there too because his Kissinger book came out in in 1999, I believe, or 2000. This is years after he was making a very forceful case for NATO intervention in Bosnia and then later in Kosovo. After September 11th, that's when he became what people love to

00:00

Get the Snipd
podcast app

Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
App store bannerPlay store banner

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode

Save any
moment

Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways

Share
& Export

Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode