I entered Henry Kissinger’s classroom at Harvard University 58 years ago, in 1965. Indeed, I have been learning from him ever since. Read it here.

Kissinger has often received criticism for his realist approach to politics, yet his critics misunderstand his essential character. Read it here.

Kissinger was the last representative of the Eastern Establishment that guided foreign policy after World War II. Read it here.

Negotiations between the United States and Saudi Arabia over Saudi-Israeli normalization follow a simple principle: nothing is agreed upon until everything is agreed upon. Read it here.

Henry Kissinger became the bête noire of the American right and left during and after the Vietnam War era for pursuing what critics decried as amoral realpolitik. On the event of his passing at age 100, what is Kissinger’s legacy for U.S. foreign policy? Jacob Heilbrunn speaks with Barry Gewen, a former editor at the New York Times Book Review and the author of The Inevitability of Tragedy: Henry Kissinger and His World (W. W. Norton, 2020). Listen now on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.