Remembering a Titan: The Complex Legacy of Henry Kissinger with David Sanger and Stephen Sestanovich

On November 29, former U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger died at the age of 100. With a long career spanning many decades as both a scholar and a statesman, Kissinger leaves behind a controversial legacy. While many have celebrated his success in resolutely pursuing U.S. global interests, others have denounced Kissinger’s apparent disregard for values such as human rights. To unpack Kissinger’s immense and complicated impact on both the United States and the world, David Sanger and Stephen Sestanovich join Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend on this week’s episode of Brussels Sprouts.
David Sanger is the White House and National Security Correspondent for The New York Times, reporting on President Biden and his administration, with a particular focus on foreign policy and its intersection with technology, politics, and superpower conflict.
Stephen Sestanovich is the George F. Kennan senior fellow for Russian and Eurasian studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis professor of international diplomacy at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. He is the author of Maximalist: America in the World from Truman to Obama, published by Knopf in February 2014.
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[@guydreamr]

Well, heaven knows Henry had enough baggage to fill a train, but he also had enough intellect to sink a battleship and enough insight to fill a library. Among his many books, "Diplomacy" is one of the most insightful I've ever read on western statecraft, which I highly recommend.

[@piccolo917]

I hope the worms that will eat him don't get poisoned from the venom this creature exudes.

[@hadronoftheseus8829]

Mindless, and nauseating, in equal measure. Intelligent people every are sneering and and smirking at you.

[@DeOmnibusDubitandum76]

A Titan? More like a nauseating worm and a butcher mastermind.