52 Facts About Charles Krauthammer

Charles Krauthammer was an American political columnist.

Charles Krauthammer joined the Carter administration in 1978 as a director of psychiatric research, eventually becoming the speechwriter to Vice President Walter Mondale in 1980.

Charles Krauthammer was a weekly panelist on the PBS news program Inside Washington from 1990 until it ceased production in December 2013.

Charles Krauthammer had been a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard, a Fox News contributor, and a nightly panelist on Special Report with Bret Baier on Fox News.

Charles Krauthammer received acclaim for his writing on foreign policy, among other matters.

Charles Krauthammer was a leading conservative voice and proponent of United States military and political engagement on the global stage, coining the term Reagan Doctrine and advocating both the Gulf War and the Iraq War.

Charles Krauthammer was born on March 13,1950, in the New York City borough of Manhattan.

Charles Krauthammer attended McGill University in Montreal, graduating in 1970 with first-class honours in economics and political science.

At that time, McGill University was a hotbed of radical sentiment, something that Charles Krauthammer said influenced his dislike of political extremism.

Charles Krauthammer remained with his Harvard Medical School class during his hospitalization, graduating in 1975.

Charles Krauthammer credited Hermann Lisco, associate dean of students, for making it happen.

From 1975 through 1978, Charles Krauthammer was a resident in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, serving as chief resident his final year.

Charles Krauthammer published his findings in the Archives of General Psychiatry.

Charles Krauthammer co-authored a path-finding study on the epidemiology of mania.

In 1978, Charles Krauthammer relocated to Washington, DC, to direct planning in psychiatric research under the Carter administration.

Charles Krauthammer began contributing articles about politics to The New Republic and, in 1980, served as a speechwriter to Vice President Walter Mondale.

Charles Krauthammer contributed to the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

In 1979, Charles Krauthammer joined The New Republic as both a writer and editor.

Charles Krauthammer began writing regular editorials for The Washington Post in 1985 and became a nationally syndicated columnist.

Charles Krauthammer coined and developed the term Reagan Doctrine in 1985, and he defined the US role as sole superpower in his essay "The Unipolar Moment", published shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

In 1990, Charles Krauthammer became a panelist for the weekly PBS political roundtable Inside Washington, remaining with the show until it ceased production in December 2013.

Charles Krauthammer appeared on Fox News Channel as a contributor for many years.

In 2013, Charles Krauthammer published Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics.

In 1974, Charles Krauthammer married his wife, Robyn, a lawyer who stopped practicing law in order to focus on her work as an artist.

Charles Krauthammer was influenced by his study of Maimonides at McGill University with Rabbi David Hartman, the head of Jerusalem's Shalom Hartman Institute and professor of philosophy at McGill during Krauthammer's student days.

Charles Krauthammer was a member of both the Chess Journalists of America and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Charles Krauthammer was co-founder of Pro Musica Hebraica, a not-for-profit organization devoted to presenting Jewish classical music, much of it lost or forgotten, in a concert hall setting.

Charles Krauthammer enjoyed chess to a point that he gave it up later in life, fearing he was addicted.

The surgery was thought to have been successful; however, on June 8,2018, Charles Krauthammer announced that his cancer had returned and that doctors had given him only weeks to live.

Charles Krauthammer supported relaxing the Bush administration's limits on federal funding of discarded human embryonic stem cell research.

Charles Krauthammer supported embryonic stem cell research using embryos discarded by fertility clinics with restrictions in its applications.

Charles Krauthammer warned that scientists were beginning to develop the power of "creating a class of superhumans".

In March 2009, Charles Krauthammer was invited to the signing of an executive order by President Barack Obama at the White House but declined to attend because of his fears about the cloning of human embryos and the creation of normal human embryos solely for purposes of research.

Charles Krauthammer contrasted the "moral seriousness" of Bush's stem cell address of August 9,2001, with that of Obama's address on stem cells.

Charles Krauthammer was critical of the idea of living wills and the current state of end-of-life counseling and feared that Obamacare would just worsen the situation:.

Charles Krauthammer was a longtime advocate of radically higher energy taxes to induce conservation.

Charles Krauthammer first gained attention in the mid-1980s when he first used the phrase "Reagan Doctrine" in his Time magazine column.

In 1990, at the end the Cold War, Charles Krauthammer wrote several articles entitled "The Unipolar Moment".

Charles Krauthammer used the term "unipolarity" to describe the world structure that was emerging with the fall of the Soviet Union, with world power residing in the "serenely dominant" Western alliance led by the United States.

Charles Krauthammer predicted that the bipolar world of the Cold War would give way not to a multipolar world in which the US was one of many centers of power, but a unipolar world dominated by the United States with a power gap between the most powerful state and the second most powerful state that would exceed any other in history.

Charles Krauthammer suggested that American hegemony would inevitably exist for only a historical "moment" lasting at most three or four decades.

Charles Krauthammer wrote that in the absence of a global existential threat, the United States should stay out of "teacup wars" in failed states, and instead adopt a "dry powder" foreign policy of nonintervention and readiness.

Charles Krauthammer opposed purely "humanitarian intervention".

Charles Krauthammer believed a security barrier between the two states' final borders will be an important element of any lasting peace.

Charles Krauthammer thought that Goldstone "should spend the rest of his life undoing the damage and changing and retracting that report".

Charles Krauthammer was described by some as having been a conservative.

Charles Krauthammer attended a school where half the day was devoted to secular studies and half the day was devoted to religious education conducted in Hebrew.

Charles Krauthammer's father demanded that he learn Talmud; in addition to his school's required Talmud studies, Krauthammer took extra Talmud classes three days a week.

Charles Krauthammer called the nomination of Miers a "mistake" on several occasions.

Charles Krauthammer noted her lack of constitutional experience as the main obstacle to her nomination.

In 2005, Charles Krauthammer wrote several articles likening intelligent design to "tarted-up creationism".

In 1999, Charles Krauthammer received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.