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Dec 2023
1h 8m

Remembering Henry Kissinger

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This week, Eric, Dan, and Dylan discuss the passing of Henry Kissinger at the age of 100. How should Kissinger be remembered? Is there any merit to the claims he was a war criminal? What will be his enduring legacy? Next, Venezuela might be preparing to annex some of the territory of neighboring Guyana after the discovery of large oil reserves in that nation. How concerned should we be? How much does this underscore the disaster that the socialist governments of Chávez and Maduro have been for Venezuela? And finally, the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and Penn appeared before Congress to testify on anti-Semitism on their campuses—and it didn’t go very well. How should we think about free speech on college campuses? 

Pax Kissinger | The Morning Dispatch

The Meaning of History: Dr. Henry Kissinger’s Undergraduate Thesis | Johns Hopkins University

Guyana agreed to talks with Venezuela over territorial dispute under pressure from Brazil, others | Associated Press

Venezuela’s autocrat, Nicolás Maduro, threatens to annex Guyana | The Economist

Antisemitism Beleaguers the Ivies | The Dispatch

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