Episode 85

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25th Oct 2025

Kissinger - Director Barak Goodman

Director Barak Goodman’s KISSINGER, is a new two-part, three-hour biography, offers an incisive portrait of Henry Kissinger, the enigmatic powerbroker who served in the topmost echelons of American diplomacy. Whether celebrated or reviled, Kissinger’s contradictions reflect those at the heart of America’s foreign policy during the second half of the 20th century, a period in which America became the unchallenged superpower in the world yet often pursued policy at odds with its own highest ideals. As historian and Kissinger biographer Niall Ferguson says in the film, “Nobody, before or since, has played such an important role in American foreign policy. We’ve had to recognize it’s Henry Kissinger’s world.KISSINGER Director Barak Goodman stops by for an informed  conversation on the who, what, when and why Henry Kissinger was such a consequential force in American foreign policy and how that power impacted the lives and the deaths of millions of people around the world. 

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