Only the good die young—no, really. The historian and Harper’s Magazine contributor Daniel Bessner joins Violet Lucca to discuss the series of love fests for Henry Kissinger, and Christopher Hitchens’s “The Case Against Henry Kissinger,” an iconic two-part takedown of the statesman published in early 2001. 

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The first part: https://harpers.org/archive/2001/02/the-case-against-henry-kissinger-part-one/
The second part: https://harpers.org/archive/2001/03/the-case-against-henry-kissinger-part-two/

The Kissinger Centennial

Participants: John Steppling, Jennifer Matsui, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Trump’s speech at the UN, US prepares to do something to Venezuela, Christopher Hitchens in 2007 mocking a recently dead televangelist, the curious rise and shining future of Erika Kirk, the history of Israeli blackmail, Colombia and Indonesia propose putting their soldiers' “boots on the ground” to defend Gaza, the long history of parties in liberal democracies smearing each other as communist. Music track: “Desafinado” by Stan Getz (public domain). See Aesthetic Resistance on Substack for the links related to this episode. 

PODCAST 179

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