in the chotiner interviewer titled Can Liberalism Be Saved?

Well, the next time someone brings up a terrible anecdote about Cambodia or Vietnam, I will definitely drop the Star Wars story to show that people have two sides.

Yeah. And I get those who think you shouldn’t be friends with someone who did terrible things. I hear that. I can just say that he was, as a very large number of people would say, though many fewer would say it publicly, an extraordinarily generous friend.

Professor, thank you so much for doing this.

Great, thanks. If we go light on the Kissinger part, I wouldn’t complain, because it could dwarf everything else.

linky to lib yorker

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    16 days ago

    I’m yet to read the article, but is it suggesting that the crime against humanity that Kissinger committed in south east Asia can be excused because he was nice to this one guy about his star wars book?

    archive link: https://archive.is/0jHhi

    edit: having now read it its still unclear if he means Lucas’s Star Wars or the SDI lol