The KISSINGER Effect.

The article discusses the author's work on a book about the legacy of former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's foreign policy, and it mentions writer Christopher Hitchens' book "The Trial of Henry Kissinger," as well as the claim that the militarism of the national-security state began with Kissinger in the twentieth century. American political and military history are examined, as well as the Vietnam War and the concepts of idealism and realism in relation to U.S. foreign policy.