Editor’s Note: This piece was first published in May 2023 at the time of Henry Kissinger’s 100th birthday. It has been updated to reflect that the former US secretary of state died on 29 November 2023 at his home in Connecticut.
The centenary of Henry Kissinger, hailed as a genius or decried as a war criminal with equal fervour, unfolded on 27 May in a who’s who of hagiographic tweets, interviews and op-eds from across the establishment, culminating in a gala dinner at the fusty Yale Club in New York. Such commentators almost entirely avoided the real story about Kissinger, who last held office 46 years ago.
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