Times Literary Supplement 6272 16 June 2023
In this week’s TLS
E. M. Forster believed that “the true history of the human race is the history of human affection”. Cold rationalists like Henry Kissinger (still moving the pieces on the diplomatic chessboard as a centenarian) and Zbigniew Brzezinski have a bleaker view of our fundamental impulses. Another American diplomat-scholar, George Kennan, the author of the Cold War strategy of “containment” of the Soviet Union, tried to reconcile both philosophies.
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In this week’s TLS
E. M. Forster believed that “the true history of the human race is the history of human affection”. Cold rationalists like Henry Kissinger (still moving the pieces on the diplomatic chessboard as a centenarian) and Zbigniew Brzezinski have a bleaker view of our fundamental impulses. Another American diplomat-scholar, George Kennan, the author of the Cold War strategy of “containment” of the Soviet Union, tried to reconcile both philosophies.