Charles Krauthammer, winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary, writes a nationally syndicated column for The Washington Post Writers Group. Krauthammer, also winner of the 1984 National Magazine Award for essays, began writing the weekly column for The Washington Post in January 1985. It now appears in more than 150 newspapers. The late Meg Greenfield, longtime editorial page editor of The Washington Post, called Krauthammer's column "independent and hard to peg politically. It's a very tough column. There's no 'trendy' in it. You never know what is going to happen next." Says Fred Hiatt, editorial page editor of The Washington Post: "Krauthammer's weekly essays on the war on terrorism, bioethics, the Middle East and other complex and contentious issues cut through the cant and the muddy thinking in a way that many other columnists can only envy." A column, says Krauthammer, is not just politics. "My beat is ideas, everything from the ethics of cloning to strategy in Iraq. I also do public service, like reading Stephen Hawking's books and assuring my readers that 'It is not you. They are entirely incomprehensible.'" Krauthammer was born in New York City and raised in Montreal. He was educated at McGill University, majoring in political science and economics, Oxford University (Commonwealth Scholar in Politics) and Harvard (M.D. in 1975). He practiced medicine for three years as a resident and then chief resident in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. In 1978, he quit medical practice, came to Washington to direct planning in psychiatric research for the Carter administration, and began contributing articles to The New Republic. During the presidential campaign of 1980, he served as a speech writer to Vice President Walter Mondale. He joined The New Republic as a writer and editor in 1981. He writes regular essays for Time magazine and contributes to several other publications, including The Weekly Standard, The New Republic and The National Interest. He has been honored by many organizations, from the Center for Security Policy (Mighty Pen Award) to People for the American Way (First Amendment Award). In 2003, he was a recipient of the first annual Bradley Prize. In 2004, he was honored by the American Enterprise Institute with the Irving Kristol Award. Krauthammer lives in suburban Washington with his wife Robyn, an artist. Their son is a student at Harvard. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2008 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ WASHINGTON -- You'll notice Barack Obama is now wearing a flag pin. Again. During the primary campaign, he refused to, explaining that he'd worn one after 9/11 but then stopped because it "became a substitute for,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2008/07/04/obama_flips_and_flops e818e768-97ba-43ff-8bf0-ae02961990fb Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT "To be clear: Barack will support a filibuster of any bill that includes retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies." -- Obama spokesman Bill Burton, Oct. 24, 2007 WASHINGTON... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2008/06/27/obamas_long_march f89ad2fe-e51b-4693-a613-5b61ef7fa326 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Gas is $4 a gallon. Oil is $135 a barrel and rising. We import two-thirds of our oil, sending hundreds of billions of dollars to the likes of Russia, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. And yet we... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2008/06/20/critical_thinking_on_energy a04dfa7f-0f05-4152-a1ce-97a95b95c45d Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- In his St. Paul victory speech, Barack Obama pledged again to pull out of Iraq. Rather than "continue a policy in Iraq that asks everything of our brave men and women in uniform and nothing... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2008/06/13/obamas_plan_for_defeat 32bc2bc7-cc1a-45b1-87cd-db166c6b61d9 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- So now we know: The price point is $4. At $3 a gallon, Americans just grin and bear it, suck it up, and, while complaining profusely, keep driving like crazy. At $4, it is a world... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2008/06/06/the_power_of_four_dollars a05f3b19-f1c2-4e87-86fe-38ff3f6714a4 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- I'm not a global warming believer. I'm not a global warming denier. I'm a global warming agnostic who believes instinctively that it can't be very good to pump lots of CO2 into the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2008/05/31/environmentalists_pick_up_where_communists_left_off 1a11fa3b-4833-442d-8a2f-5304d3fd5d30 Sat, 31 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- When the House of Representatives takes up arms against $4 gas by voting 324-84 to sue OPEC, you know that election-year discourse has gone surreal. Another unmistakable sign is when a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2008/05/23/a_gaffe,_an_absurdity,_and_a_policy 160f1fe8-3b7b-43f1-8dfc-63e26d8cb270 Fri, 23 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Before sending Lewis and Clark west, Thomas Jefferson dispatched Meriwether Lewis to Philadelphia to see Dr. Benjamin Rush. The eminent doctor prepared a series of scientific questions for... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2008/05/16/home_for_the_lost_tribes_of_israel fbbba186-e605-4ff0-8f7e-ebefa051d3a9 Fri, 16 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- By the time Hillary Clinton figured out how to beat Barack Obama, it was too late. When she began the race in 2007 thinking she was in for a coronation, she claimed the center in order to pos http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2008/05/09/hillary_clintons_long_learning_curve dbd6b98a-889e-4e51-8909-d23be95efbbf Fri, 09 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT "I can no more disown him (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown my white grandmother." -- Barack Obama, Philadelphia, March 18 WASHINGTON -- Guess it's time to disown Granny, if Obama's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2008/05/02/obamas_changing_moral_equivalence 43e00775-e4c6-451c-b98e-bdecc00f6183 Fri, 02 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT Real change has never been easy. ... The status quo in Washington will fight. They will fight harder than ever to divide us and distract us with ads and attacks from now until November. -- Barack... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2008/04/25/the_distractions_of_obamas_character 24e5d096-d162-4f4d-8f4e-bf98b8980ebd Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- The era of nonproliferation is over. During the first half-century of the nuclear age, safety lay in restricting the weaponry to major powers and keeping it out of the hands of rogue states.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2008/04/18/nonproliferations_time_has_passed c9bb529b-9ebd-4469-9429-82389e0a5b15 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- On Tuesday, Iran announced it was installing 6,000 more centrifuges -- they produce enriched uranium, the key ingredient of a nuclear weapon -- in addition to the 3,000 already operating. The world... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2008/04/11/the_advancing_iranian_nuclear_program 57583093-e3ac-4b8c-a6f1-d2f0f8cbe318 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Hillary Clinton met her Waterloo at Tuzla. She'd been regaling audiences with tales of a dangerous landing under sniper fire in Tuzla 12 years ago and then running for cover. None of this... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2008/04/04/at_arms_length_with_the_truth 5591dc54-e832-4120-98ad-855d9208e860 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Asked at a New Hampshire campaign stop about possibly staying in Iraq 50 years, John McCain interrupted -- "Make it a hundred" -- then offered a precise analogy to what he envisioned: "We've... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2008/03/28/mccains_hundred_year_war 0e437688-341a-4ae3-9b24-692650594140 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:01:00 GMT