Rebecca Gordon teaches at the University of San Francisco. She is the author of Mainstreaming Torture and American Nuremberg: The U.S. Officials Who Should Stand Trial for Post-9/11 War Crimes, and is now at work on a new book on the history of torture in the United States.

08.27.2023

• Rebecca Gordon

It’s Never a Bad Time to Remind Ourselves That Henry Kissinger Is a Murderous War Criminal

Unlike other war criminals from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush, Henry Kissinger’s reputation has never received public rehabilitation. He hasn’t needed it — despite his murderous rap sheet, the media and political establishment has always fawned over him.