The Atlantic’s writing and reporting on one of the vital controversial and influential foreign-policy thinkers of the previous 50 years
That is an version of Time-Journey Thursdays, a journey by The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the current, floor pleasant treasures, and study the American concept. (Did somebody ahead you this article? Enroll right here.)
To examine Henry Kissinger’s legacy is to confront the place of an undeniably influential determine in a troublesome—and bloody—world historical past.
“What number of of his eulogists will grapple together with his full file in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Bangladesh, Chile, Argentina, East Timor, Cyprus, and elsewhere?” Gary J. Bass wrote in The Atlantic yesterday upon the information of Kissinger’s demise at 100. “The uncomfortable query is why a lot of American well mannered society was so prepared to dote on him, quite than actually confronting what he did.”
The next is a information to our writing about Kissinger, from 1969, when he first joined the Nixon administration, to the current day, together with two items by Kissinger himself on the rise of synthetic intelligence.
In His Personal Phrases:
Conversations with, and writing by, Kissinger
- The Metamorphosis, by Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher (August 2019)
1969–1976: Our Reporting on Kissinger
From the Nixon administration to the Ford administration
Assessing Kissinger’s Legacy
