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 Charles 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 Charles 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. Charles Krauthammer was educated at McGill University, majoring in political science and economics, Oxford University (Commonwealth Scholar in Politics) and Harvard (M.D. in 1975). Charles Krauthammer practiced medicine for three years as a resident and then chief resident in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. In 1978, Krauthammer 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, Charles Krauthammer served as a speech writer to Vice President Walter Mondale. He joined The New Republic as a writer and editor in 1981. Charles Krauthammer writes regular essays for Time magazine and contributes to several other publications, including The Weekly Standard, The New Republic and The National Interest. Krauthammer 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. Charles 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) 2013 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Fri, 28 May 2010 04:01:00 GMT Fri, 28 May 2010 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ WASHINGTON -- Heres my question: Why are we drilling in 5,000 feet of water in the first place? Many reasons, but this one goes unmentioned: Environmental chic has driven us out there. As production... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2010/05/28/whose_blowout_is_it,_anyway da23bcbb-6a48-4c36-ab69-619d1ae9ad66 Fri, 28 May 2010 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- It is perfectly obvious that Iran's latest uranium maneuver, brokered by Brazil and Turkey, is a ruse. Iran retains more than enough enriched uranium to make a bomb. And it continues enriching at an... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2010/05/21/the_fruits_of_weakness 7746293e-89a5-4787-9f8a-a1449e30bf26 Fri, 21 May 2010 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- It's not often that I agree with Attorney General Eric Holder. But, then again, it's not often that Holder publicly embraces an anti-terrorism measure I proposed 48 hours earlier. In... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2010/05/14/modernizing_miranda_a_new_consensus 50ce659b-8385-4b1e-b709-17be2c63cb80 Fri, 14 May 2010 04:01:00 GMT "Law enforcement) interviewed Mr. Shahzad ... under the public safety exception to the Miranda rule. ... He was eventually ... Mirandized and continued talking." -- John Pistole, FBI deputy director, May... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2010/05/07/miranda_and_public_safety c15186ca-dbdc-4f3a-afca-7ad86f5c1e2a Fri, 07 May 2010 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Among my various idiosyncrasies, such as (twice) driving from Washington to New York to watch a world championship chess match, the most baffling to my friends is my steadfast devotion to the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2010/04/23/the_joy_of_losing 48991598-308f-4d4c-9445-830ad0e1d1ac Fri, 23 Apr 2010 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- There was something oddly disproportionate about the just-concluded nuclear summit to which President Obama summoned 46 world leaders, the largest such gathering on American soil since 1945.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2010/04/16/obamas_nuclear_posturing,_part_deux 623e3d62-d71c-4e37-9a52-da146aaf62e5 Fri, 16 Apr 2010 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Nuclear doctrine consists of thinking the unthinkable. It involves making threats and promising retaliation that is cruel and destructive beyond imagining. But it has its purpose: to prevent... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2010/04/09/nuclear_posturing,_obama-style 3acaf6dc-ab4b-4c73-9490-5862524b28c1 Fri, 09 Apr 2010 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- What is it like to be a foreign ally of Barack Obama's America? If you're a Brit, your head is spinning. It's not just the personal slights to Prime Minister Gordon Brown -- the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2010/04/02/slapping_friends a8f16e09-5e57-49ea-96a4-58b7eea4d5e7 Fri, 02 Apr 2010 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- As the night follows the day, the VAT cometh. With the passage of Obamacare, creating a vast new middle-class entitlement, a national sales tax of the kind near-universal in Europe is... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2010/03/26/the_vat_cometh ae2808a3-adf6-4c2f-b351-f860878e389e Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Why did President Barack Obama choose to turn a gaffe into a crisis in U.S.-Israeli relations? And a gaffe it was: the announcement by a bureaucrat in the Interior Ministry of a housing... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2010/03/18/the_biden_incident aa05f2cf-1ad3-4e6b-97c1-c9b551f62589 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:54:51 GMT WASHINGTON -- As the Afghanistan War intensifies -- Marja, soon Kandahar, and the steady arrival of 30,000 new American troops -- it has come to be seen as Obama's war. Not so. It's become America's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2010/03/12/in_praise_of_the_rotation_of_power 467c7e2f-6d73-4fa2-8414-9a5c2ad6ccfa Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- So the yearlong production, set to close after Massachusetts' devastatingly negative Jan. 19 review, saw the curtain raised one last time. Obamacare lives. After 34 speeches, three... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2010/03/05/onward,_he_said,_regardless efcc3818-aca4-45dc-bd1e-91d8306119d5 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Amazingly, the congressional hearings on Toyota were relatively civilized. Apart from some inevitable theatrical hectoring, the questioning was generally respectful, the emotions controlled.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2010/02/26/toyota_and_the_price_of_modernity 0df7409f-6c52-48a1-a099-b5d2424981ec Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- In the latter days of the Carter presidency, it became fashionable to say that the office had become unmanageable and was simply too big for one man. Some suggested a single, six-year presidential term http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2010/02/19/ungovernable__nonsense c2874761-3c38-4189-b172-8086cec97a08 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- "We have an agreement until 2012 that Russia will be responsible for this," says Anatoly Perminov, head of the Russian space agency, about ferrying astronauts from other countries into... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2010/02/12/closing_the_new_frontier 64c05985-f3a2-4835-bdf9-8a597e05b3eb Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- "I am not an ideologue," protested President Obama at a gathering with Republican House members last week. Perhaps, but he does have a tenacious commitment to a set of political... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2010/02/05/the_great_peasant_revolt_of_2010 33000dfb-b276-422c-a4f1-5d107143315b Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- The real scandal surrounding the failed Christmas Day airline bombing was not the fact that a terrorist got on a plane -- that can happen to any administration, as it surely did to the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2010/01/29/soft_on_terror cbaeb306-0b5c-4e0f-8ca9-fa8267f5fbf0 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- On Jan. 14, five days before the Massachusetts special election, President Obama was in full bring-it-on mode as he rallied House Democrats behind his health care reform. "If Republicans want... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2010/01/22/the_meaning_of_brown b7d9175b-ca7c-44fc-9216-119f0163c5ec Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- What went wrong? A year ago, he was king of the world. Now President Obama's approval rating, according to CBS, has dropped to 46 percent -- and his disapproval rating is the highest ever... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2010/01/15/one_year_out_the_fall 62304b7d-5efc-48f9-9b0d-d7fe0aea5ced Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- On Wednesday, Nigerian would-be bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was indicted by a Michigan grand jury for attempted murder and sundry other criminal charges. The previous day, the State Department... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2010/01/08/the_gitmo_obsession 04490e21-0dea-4f50-81cf-6c86e0feb894 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Janet Napolitano -- former Arizona governor, now overmatched secretary of homeland security -- will forever be remembered for having said of the attempt to bring down an airliner over Detroit: "The... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2010/01/01/war_what_war 02d97d2d-d4ed-4bf6-85a2-a8f2fc3cac52 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- On Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not just reject President Obama's latest feckless floating nuclear deadline. He spat on it, declaring that Iran "will continue resisting"... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/12/25/2009_the_year_of_living_fecklessly 05c59de7-18b2-4fae-a919-395d4384c668 Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Twenty-five years ago this week, I wrote my first column. I'm not much given to self-reflection -- why do you think I quit psychiatry? -- but I figure once every quarter-century is not... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/12/18/an_anniversary_of_sorts 0ff4bf77-2c9b-4909-be0f-76efc0ad248d Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- In the 1970s and early '80s, having seized control of the U.N. apparatus (by power of numbers), Third World countries decided to cash in. OPEC was pulling off the greatest wealth transfer... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/12/11/the_new_socialism 6edfd348-a309-4c9c-8623-b38d6416a967 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- We shall fight in the air, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields, we shall fight in the hills -- for 18 months. Then we start packing for home. We shall... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/12/04/uncertain_trumpet fe183312-a039-4042-ab8d-883b536661e2 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- The United States has the best health care in the world -- but because of its inefficiencies, also the most expensive. The fundamental problem with the 2,074-page Senate health-care bill (as with its http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/11/27/kill_the_bills_do_health_reform_right 372ed78d-b634-4b9c-9b9b-e0f84c7d706d Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- For late-19th-century anarchists, terrorism was the "propaganda of the deed." And the most successful propaganda-by-deed in history was 9/11 -- not just the most destructive, but the most... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/11/20/travesty_in_new_york 5b8e255c-3adc-4a9d-bb2b-14ef9fe8d11f Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- What a surprise -- that someone who shouts "Allahu Akbar" (the "God is great" jihadist battle cry) as he is shooting up a room of American soldiers might have Islamist motives. It certainly... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/11/13/medicalizing_mass_murder 153ac19c-2050-4195-9e62-f00f6fa07731 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Sure, Election Day 2009 will scare moderate Democrats and make passage of Obamacare more difficult. Sure, it makes it easier for resurgent Republicans to raise money and recruit candidates... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/11/06/the_myth_of_08,_demolished 38aa12b2-cb47-4b0f-a29f-f67d1efb30f1 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Old Soviet joke: Moscow, 1953. Stalin calls in Khrushchev. "Niki, I'm dying. Don't have much to leave you. Just three envelopes. Open them, one at a time, when you get into big... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/10/30/the_three_envelopes 31f759bf-3455-42b8-a6ef-d9071d6db79d Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Rahm Emanuel once sent a dead fish to a live pollster. Now he's put a horse's head in Roger Ailes' bed. Not very subtle. And not very smart. Ailes doesn't scare easily. The... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/10/23/fox_wars dd4f2961-852e-49ea-b084-fc120c5e7567 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- About the only thing more comical than Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize was the reaction of those who deemed the award "premature," as if the brilliance of Obama's foreign policy is so... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/10/16/debacle_in_moscow da9b5d53-061b-4762-a037-b756c6d00213 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- The genius of democracy is the rotation of power, which forces the opposition to be serious -- particularly about things like war, about which until Jan. 20 of this year Democrats were... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/10/09/young_hamlets_agony d7891943-205a-43ae-accf-0a2d64ab5fc6 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT "President Obama, I support the Americans' outstretched hand. But what did the international community gain from these offers of dialogue? Nothing." -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Sept. 24 http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/10/02/obamas_french_lesson 13cdf7e0-7129-4a9a-95ed-e1456160fc00 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- After the plain pine box is lowered into the grave, the mourners are asked to come forward -- immediate family first -- and shovel dirt onto the casket. Only when it is fully covered, only... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/09/25/a_great_good_man bb693566-25af-4373-a001-69f27592108d Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT You lie? No. Barack Obama doesn't lie. He's too subtle for that. He ... well, you judge. Herewith three examples within a single speech -- the now-famous Obama-Wilson "you lie" address to Congress on health care... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/09/18/does_he_lie 237cab84-e7d2-48c4-8969-98e741533142 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:01:01 GMT WASHINGTON -- So Van Jones, the defenestrated White House green-jobs czar, once called Republicans "a--holes." Big deal. I've said worse about Democrats. I've said worse about Republicans. I've said worse... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/09/11/the_van_jones_matter 3099cc22-4b0a-4145-842e-e5fc54f10c2b Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- What happened to President Obama? His wax wings having melted, he is the man who fell to earth. What happened to bring his popularity down further than that of any new president in polling history save... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/09/04/obama,_the_mortal f54ab4ee-ba9f-422d-aa22-f2f171d32e35 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Obamacare Version 1.0 is dead. The 1,000-page monstrosity that emerged in various editions from Congress was done in by widespread national revulsion not just at its expense and intrusiveness... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/08/28/obamacare_the_only_exit_strategy bc67c8be-e5f2-49ca-bb08-809a7b45f712 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Let's see if we can have a reasoned discussion about end-of-life counseling. We might start by asking Sarah Palin to leave the room. I've got nothing against her. She's a remarkable... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/08/21/lets_be_honest_about_death_counseling ed1eab16-2868-4115-9ae8-6b046e779bce Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- In the 48 hours of June 15-16, President Obama lost the health care debate. First, a letter from the Congressional Budget Office to Sen. Edward Kennedy reported that his health committee's refor http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/08/14/the_preventive_care_myth 2bc5f404-22cf-4773-8b67-babef08cbb1a Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- In 1986, Ronald Reagan and Bill Bradley created a legislative miracle. They fashioned a tax reform that stripped loopholes, political favors, payoffs, patronage and other corruptions out of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/08/07/health_care_reform_a_better_plan 70b01fb1-bf0e-4b0d-8283-73d870f9085b Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Yesterday, Barack Obama was God. Today, he's fallen from grace, the magic gone, his health care reform dead. If you believed the first idiocy -- and half the mainstream media did -- you'll... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/07/31/obamacare_not_waterloo,_just_a_tactical_retreat 2b2a2b9e-cc77-4640-aa54-e2a6746d8a80 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- What happened to Obamacare? Rhetoric met reality. As both candidate and president, the master rhetorician could conjure a world in which he bestows upon you health care nirvana: more... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/07/24/why_obamacare_is_sinking 7eaa61c0-85ec-4820-93f4-5d306bbe94fb Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Michael Crichton once wrote that if you had told a physicist in 1899 that within a hundred years humankind would, among other wonders (nukes, commercial airlines), "travel to the moon, and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/07/17/the_moon_we_forgot 4b542a2d-0f58-48a7-9759-bc7f3c61b8ea Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- The signing ceremony in Moscow was a grand affair. For Barack Obama, foreign policy neophyte and "reset" man, the arms reduction agreement had a Kissingerian air. A fine feather in his cap. And our... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/07/10/plumage_-_but_at_a_price 5b6ad6b7-6392-4cef-a2a5-f20324619060 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court's ruling on the Ricci case -- that white firemen suffered illegal discrimination when a promotional test on which they did well was thrown out because not enough blacks did... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/07/03/the_meaning_of_ricci 3bf34fb5-403a-4193-9ea0-47005264f383 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Iran today is a revolution in search of its Yeltsin. Without leadership, demonstrators will take to the street only so many times to face tear gas, batons and bullets. They need a leader like... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/06/26/iran_desperately_seeking_yeltsin 8a656b6e-e783-413e-9d7a-bab9ae9d1c0b Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Millions of Iranians take to the streets to defy a theocratic dictatorship that, among its other finer qualities, is a self-declared enemy of America and the tolerance and liberties it... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/06/19/hope_and_change_-_but_not_for_iran 5e3c523d-0025-4afb-862a-2c64065d13a9 Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- When President Obama returned from his first European trip, I observed that while over there he had been "acting the philosopher-king who hovers above the fray mediating" between America and the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/06/12/hovering_on_high_obama_surveys_the_world 4d801c24-cdb2-464d-b367-5af0d939bf8e Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:01:00 GMT