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Syndicated columnist <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Charles_Krauthammer" title="reference on Charles Krauthammer" target="self">Charles Krauthammer</a>, who writes for the Weekly Standard and the Washington Post, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_Anshutz" title="reference on Philip Anshutz" target="self">Philip Anshutz</a>, owner of the Examiner newspapers and the Weekly Standard, Stephen Moore, a Wall Street Journal editorial board member, are just some of the conservative media figures who attend the Kochs' exclusive, private annual gatherings.

Main Source: <a href="http://motherjones.com/environment/2011/02/koch-brothers-media-beck-greenpeace" target="_blank">Mother Jones, February 4, 2011</a>

Charles Krauthammer -- <a target="blank" class="zoom" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032401690.html">Washington syndicated columnist Post</a>, pundit and contributor to the <a target="blank" class="zoom" href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/author/charles-krauthammer">Weekly Standard</a> and <a target="_blank" class="zoom" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/">Town Hall Magazine</a>.

Krauthammer is a fervent <a target="blank" class="zoom" href="http://climateprogress.org/2011/02/10/charles-krauthammer-global-warming-is-a-religion-gore/">climate obstructionist</a> who refers to global warming as a “religion,” and more broadly claims that “scientists are flip floppers, constantly changing their theories.” Krauthammer focuses on vilifying environmentalists and political icon <a target="blank" class="zoom" href="http://climateprogress.org/2011/02/10/charles-krauthammer-global-warming-is-a-religion-gore/">Al Gore</a>, rather than debating actual <a target="blank" class="zoom" href="http://climateprogress.org/2008/06/01/krauthammer-part-2-the-real-reason-conservatives-dont-believe-in-climate-science/">climate scientists</a>, in attempts to cast doubt upon the science of global warming. His disregard for accurate climate science is demonstrated by his references to <a target="blank" class="zoom" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/29/AR2008052903266.html">Czech President Vaclav Klaus</a>. aspenkoch

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/29/AR2008052903266.html

Klaus, a notorious climate science denier, was a keynote speaker at the 2009 International Conference on Climate Change. This event, run by the Heartland Institute, was a who’s who of career skeptic scientists and pseudo-experts for hire, <a target="blank" class="zoom" href="http://www.heartland.org/events/NewYork09/sponsorships.html">working for institutions </a>heavily funded by Koch foundations and ExxonMobil, among other polluters and <a target="blank" class="zoom" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/denial-a-palooza-4th-international-conference-climate-change-heartland">associated foundations</a>.

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bret b straight news...<div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Special Report fuels nationalistic and misleading narratives opposing global climate efforts</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">
</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Efforts to prevent and counter the worst consequences of global climate change have to be negotiated at the international level and require unprecedented cooperation between countries in order to succeed. But in covering those efforts, such as the U.S. signing on to the Paris climate agreement under Obama, Baier and his guests on Special Report instead echoed isolationist narratives to undermine global mitigation efforts. Like Fox opinion-side personalities, they suggested that international mitigation efforts are detrimental to the U.S. economy, that they favor China and India over America, and that global cooperation would fail to stave off the worst effects of climate change. Statements that fueled these nationalistic and misleading narratives opposed to global climate efforts constituted 8% of the total misinformation and false narratives spread on Special Report during the studied time period.</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">
</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">In an appearance on Special Report in December 2009, the late conservative pundit Charles Krauthammer repeated one of the most prevalent talking points used to oppose climate action, suggesting that an international climate agreement would “mean a serious constriction of the U.S. economy, a lowering of our standard of living.” This claim is false and driven by a flailing fossil fuel industry attempting to distract from its own “terminal decline” by scapegoating climate mitigation efforts. </div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">
</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">This line of attack was echoed on the network’s opinion side as recently as this year, when climate denier Marc Morano appeared on the January 21 episode of Fox & Friends First to claim that rejoining the Paris agreement is “climate virtue signaling” that will “hammer middle America, blue-collar America, [and] Americans on middle class and lower income.” In reality, committing to Paris emission reductions and building a 100% clean energy economy would create up to 25 million well-paid American jobs, and clean energy jobs are “more likely to be unionized and come with health care and retirement benefits than the rest of the private sector.”</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">
</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">In a May 2014 appearance on Special Report, Krauthammer pushed the idea that international agreements, specifically the Paris climate accord, would benefit China at the expense of American prosperity because China lacked a legally binding commitment to emissions reductions. Krauthammer stated, “As we dismantle the coal plants in our country, China and India together are adding one coal fire plant every other week. The net effect is to shift the U.S. coal energy generating industry from here to India and China. It will have zero effect.” </div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">
</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">This argument was repeated on the May 31, 2017, edition of Fox & Friends, when Fox Business host Stuart Varney denigrated the Paris climate accord as an “unequal” agreement meant to “take money and resources off Europe and America” to “give it to other countries,” including China. More recently, Fox opinion host Laura Ingraham expanded upon this argument in April, characterizing global cooperation on climate as tentative at best, with each nation pursuing “what’s in its best interest.” Ingraham then dismissed Biden’s “grand” climate plans as ineffective for failing to reduce global temperatures “at all.” </div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">
</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">These are bad-faith arguments and they do not account for the fact that not only has the U.S. caused more global warming than any other country and maintains the higher per capita emissions rates, but it also lags behind China on substantive commitments to renewable energy and technology. Furthermore, climate change and its disruptions transcend national borders and are intrinsically linked to the public health, socioeconomic well-being, and growth of every nation. </div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">
</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">In yet another appearance on Special Report in May 2017 dismissing the impact of Trump’s promise to pull out of the Paris accord, Krauthammer advanced the argument that U.S. participation in the “extremely weak” agreement was inconsequential, and he claimed it only made a “marginal difference” if “we are in it or out of it.” This sentiment on climate policy efficacy was also echoed this year on Fox’s opinion side by Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg on the January 21 edition of Fox & Friends. He argued that rejoining the Paris agreement would “cost a fortune and cut almost nothing, so basically achieve almost nothing to fix climate change.” </div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">
</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">These arguments exploit legitimate concerns of the Paris agreement --that measures agreed to at the accord will not be enough to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius -- not to garner support for the strengthening of global commitments, but to gripe about the inherent complexities of any global treaty and ultimately erode support for addressing the climate crisis on any level. Despite Paris’ shortcomings, the U.S.’s participation in the agreement — as the second biggest greenhouse gas emitter — represented a critical step toward global climate mitigation. As international markets transition toward clean energy, it is imperative that the United States can advocate for American jobs and workers. Moreover, global emissions reductions work -- in 2016, global emissions flat-lined for the third year in a row even as the global economy grew, partly because the U.S. and China cut their emissions.</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">
</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Special Report undermines the seriousness and urgency of the climate crisis...</div>=charles Krauthammer (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none !important;">/ˈkraʊthæmər/</a>; March 13, 1950 – June 21, 2018) was an American political <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columnist" title="Columnist" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">columnist</a>. A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism_in_the_United_States" title="" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">conservative</a> political <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pundit" title="Pundit" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">pundit</a>, Krauthammer won the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize" title="Pulitzer Prize" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Pulitzer Prize</a> for his column in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">The Washington Post</a> in 1987. His weekly column was syndicated to more than 400 publications worldwide.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-harrywalker-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[3]</a>While in his first year studying <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine" title="Medicine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">medicine</a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Medical_School" title="Harvard Medical School" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Harvard Medical School</a>, Krauthammer became permanently paralyzed from the waist down after suffering a diving board accident that severed his spinal cord at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cervical_spinal_nerve_5" title="Cervical spinal nerve 5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">cervical spinal nerve 5</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a> After spending 14 months recovering in a hospital, he returned to medical school, graduating to become a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychiatrist" title="Psychiatrist" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">psychiatrist</a> involved in the creation of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Manual_of_Mental_Disorders#DSM-III(1980)" title="Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders III</a> in 1980.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-c-span-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-Hall-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a> He joined the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Jimmy_Carter" title="Presidency of Jimmy Carter" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Carter administration</a> in 1978 as a director of psychiatric research,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a> eventually becoming the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speechwriter" title="Speechwriter" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">speechwriter</a> to Vice President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Mondale" title="Walter Mondale" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Walter Mondale</a> in 1980.In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Krauthammer embarked on a career as a columnist and political commentator. In 1985, he began writing a weekly editorial for The Washington Post, which earned him the 1987 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Commentary" title="Pulitzer Prize for Commentary" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Pulitzer Prize for Commentary</a> for his "witty and insightful columns on national issues."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a> He was a weekly panelist on the PBS news program <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_Washington" title="Inside Washington" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Inside Washington</a> from 1990 until it ceased production in December 2013. Krauthammer had been a contributing editor to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weekly_Standard" title="The Weekly Standard" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">The Weekly Standard</a>, a Fox News Channel contributor, and a nightly panelist on Fox News Channel's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Report_with_Bret_Baier" class="mw-redirect" title="Special Report with Bret Baier" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Special Report with Bret Baier</a>.Krauthammer received acclaim for his writing on foreign policy, among other matters. He was a leading conservative voice and proponent of United States military and political engagement on the global stage, coining the term <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan_Doctrine" title="Reagan Doctrine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Reagan Doctrine</a> and advocating both the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War" title="Gulf War" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Gulf War</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Iraq War</a>.In August 2017, due to his battle with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer" title="Cancer" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">cancer</a>, Krauthammer stopped writing his column and serving as a Fox News contributor. He died on June 21, 2018.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a><div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table;"><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#Early_life_and_career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Early life and career</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#Career_as_columnist_and_political_commentator" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2Career as columnist and political commentator</a><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#Awards_and_accolades" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.1Awards and accolades</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#Views_and_perspectives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3Views and perspectives</a><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#Bioethics_and_medicine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.1Bioethics and medicine</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#Energy_and_global_warming" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.2Energy and global warming</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#Foreign_policy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.3Foreign policy</a><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#Israel" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.3.1Israel</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#9/11,Iraq,and_the_War_on_Terror" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.3.29/11, Iraq, and the War on Terror</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#Ideology" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.4Ideology</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#Presidential_elections" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.5Presidential elections</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#Religion" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.6Religion</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#Supreme_Court_nominations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.7Supreme Court nominations</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#Other_issues" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.8Other issues</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#Personal_life" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4Personal life</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#Death" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5Death</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#Works" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6Works</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">7References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-19" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">8External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Early life and career[</h2>Krauthammer was born on March 13, 1950, in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">New York City</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borough(New_York_City)" class="mw-redirect" title="Borough (New York City)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">borough</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-Bernstein-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Manhattan</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-c-span-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a> His father, Shulim Krauthammer (November 23, 1904 – June 1987),[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>] was from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolekhiv" title="Bolekhiv" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bolekhiv</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ukraine</a> (then the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austro-Hungarian_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Austro-Hungarian Empire" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Austro-Hungarian Empire</a>), and later became a naturalized citizen of France.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-Conversations1-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a> His mother, Thea (Horowitz), was from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antwerp" title="Antwerp" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Antwerp</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Belgium</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a> The Krauthammer family was a Francophonic household.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-Conversations1-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a> When he was 5, the Krauthammers moved to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal" title="Montreal" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Montreal</a>. Through the school year, they resided in Montreal and spent the summers in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Beach,New_York" title="Long Beach, New York" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Long Beach, New York</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-Marcel-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-wpwg-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a> Both of his parents were <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox_Jews" class="mw-redirect" title="Orthodox Jews" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Orthodox Jews</a>, and he graduated from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzliah_High_School" class="mw-redirect" title="Herzliah High School" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Herzliah High School</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-Conversations1-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a>Krauthammer attended <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGill_University" title="McGill University" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">McGill University</a> in Montreal, graduating in 1970 with first-class honours in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics" title="Economics" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">economics</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_science" title="Political science" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">political science</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-BrennanClarage1999-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[17]</a> At that time, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGill_University" title="McGill University" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">McGill University</a> was a hotbed of radical sentiment, something that Krauthammer said influenced his dislike of political extremism. "I became very acutely aware of the dangers, the hypocrisies, and sort of the extremism of the political extremes. And it cleansed me very early in my political evolution of any romanticism." He later said: "I detested the extreme Left and extreme Right, and found myself somewhere in the middle."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a> The following year, after graduating from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGill_University" title="McGill University" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">McGill</a>, he studied as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Scholar" class="mw-redirect" title="Commonwealth Scholar" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Commonwealth Scholar</a> in politics at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balliol_College,Oxford" title="Balliol College, Oxford" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Balliol College, Oxford</a>, before returning to the United States to attend medical school at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Harvard</a>.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]A diving accident during his first year of medical school left Krauthammer paralyzed from the waist down.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-c-span-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[5]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-Hall-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[6]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[19]</a> He remained with his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Medical_School" title="Harvard Medical School" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Harvard Medical School</a> class during his hospitalization, graduating in 1975. From 1975 through 1978, Krauthammer was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residency(medicine)" title="Residency (medicine)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">resident</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychiatry" title="Psychiatry" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">psychiatry</a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_General_Hospital" title="Massachusetts General Hospital" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Massachusetts General Hospita</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_General_Hospital" title="Massachusetts General Hospital" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">l</a>, serving as chief resident his final year. During his time as chief resident, he noted a variant of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manic_depression" class="mw-redirect" title="Manic depression" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">manic depression</a> (bipolar disorder) that he identified and named <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_mania" title="Secondary mania" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">secondary mania</a>. He published his findings in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archives_of_General_Psychiatry" class="mw-redirect" title="Archives of General Psychiatry" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Archives of General Psychiatry</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a> He also co-authored a path-finding study on the epidemiology of mania.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a>In 1978, Krauthammer relocated to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,D.C." title="Washington, D.C." style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Washington, D.C.</a>, to direct planning in psychiatric research under the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_administration" class="mw-redirect" title="Carter administration" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Carter administration</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-harrywalker-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a> He began contributing articles about politics to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Republic" title="The New Republic" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The New Republic</a> and, in 1980, served as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speechwriter" title="Speechwriter" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">speechwriter</a> to Vice President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Mondale" title="Walter Mondale" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Walter Mondale</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-harrywalker-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a> He contributed to the third edition of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Manual_of_Mental_Disorders" title="Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders</a>. In 1984, he was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_certified" class="mw-redirect" title="Board certified" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">board certified</a> in psychiatry by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Board_of_Psychiatry_and_Neurology" title="American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Career as columnist and political commentator[</h2><div class="thumb tright" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); padding: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 222px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Reagan_Contact_Sheet_C33978(cropped).jpg" class="image" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Reagan_Contact_Sheet_C33978%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Reagan_Contact_Sheet_C33978%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="155" class="thumbimage" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Reagan_Contact_Sheet_C33978%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Reagan_Contact_Sheet_C33978%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Reagan_Contact_Sheet_C33978%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="377" data-file-height="265" style="border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></a><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><div class="magnify" style="float: right; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Reagan_Contact_Sheet_C33978(cropped).jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url("/w/resources/src/mediawiki.skinning/images/magnify-clip-ltr.svg?8330e"); display: block; text-indent: 15px; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; width: 15px; height: 11px; user-select: none;" /></div>Krauthammer greeting President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ronald Reagan</a> in 1986</div></div></div>In 1979, Krauthammer joined The New Republic as both a writer and editor.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-Charles_Krauthammer_New_Republic-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-harrywalker-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a> In 1983, he began writing essays for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Time</a> magazine, including one on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan_Doctrine" title="Reagan Doctrine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Reagan Doctrine</a>, which first brought him national acclaim as a writer.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-Barber,Lionel_2006-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a> Krauthammer began writing regular editorials for The Washington Post in 1985 and became a nationally syndicated columnist. Krauthammer coined and developed the term Reagan Doctrine in 1985, and he defined the U.S. role as sole superpower in his essay "The Unipolar Moment", published shortly after the fall of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall" title="Berlin Wall" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Berlin Wall</a> in 1989.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-Unipolar-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a>In 1990, Krauthammer became a panelist for the weekly PBS political roundtable <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_Washington" title="Inside Washington" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Inside Washington</a>, remaining with the show until it ceased production in December 2013. Krauthammer also appeared on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_Channel" class="mw-redirect" title="Fox News Channel" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Fox News Channel</a> as a contributor for many years.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]Krauthammer's 2004 speech "Democratic Realism", which was delivered to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Enterprise_Institute" title="American Enterprise Institute" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">American Enterprise Institute</a> when Krauthammer won the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Kristol_Award" title="Irving Kristol Award" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Irving Kristol Award</a>, set out a framework for tackling the post-9/11 world, focusing on the promotion of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy" title="Democracy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">democracy</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Middle East</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-Menand-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a>In 2013, Krauthammer published <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_That_Matter:Three_Decades_of_Passions,Pastimes_and_Politics" title="Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics</a>. An immediate bestseller, the book remained on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_bestseller_list" class="mw-redirect" title="The New York Times bestseller list" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The New York Times bestseller list</a> for 38 weeks and spent 10 weeks in a row at number one.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a>His son Daniel is responsible for the final edits on a book that was posthumously released, The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors, that was published in December 2018.<h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Awards and accolades[</h3>Krauthammer's New Republic essays won him the "National Magazine Award for Essays and Criticism".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-harrywalker-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a> The weekly column he began writing for The Washington Post in 1985 won him the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize" title="Pulitzer Prize" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Pulitzer Prize</a> for commentary in 1987.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a> On June 14, 1993, he was awarded the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorary_degree" title="Honorary degree" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Honorary degree</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Letters" title="Doctor of Letters" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Doctor of Letters</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGill_University" title="McGill University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">McGill University</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a>In 1999, Krauthammer received the Golden Plate Award of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_of_Achievement" title="Academy of Achievement" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">American Academy of Achievement</a>. His acceptance speech at the 1999 Summit in Washington, D.C., is included in his book, The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors, published after his death.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[29]</a>In 2006, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Times" title="Financial Times" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Financial Times</a> named Krauthammer the most influential commentator in America,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-Barber,Lionel_2006-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a> stating that "Krauthammer has influenced US foreign policy for more than two decades."In 2009, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico(newspaper)" class="mw-redirect" title="Politico (newspaper)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Politico</a> columnist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Smith(journalist)" title="Ben Smith (journalist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ben Smith</a> wrote that Krauthammer had "emerged in the Age of Obama as a central conservative voice, the kind of leader of the opposition that economist and New York Times columnist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Krugman" title="Paul Krugman" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Paul Krugman</a> represented for the left during the Bush years: a coherent, sophisticated and implacable critic of the new president."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[30]</a> In 2010, The New York Times columnist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brooks(journalist)" class="mw-redirect" title="David Brooks (journalist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">David Brooks</a> said Krauthammer was "the most important conservative columnist."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[31]</a> In 2011, former congressman and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSNBC" title="MSNBC" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">MSNBC</a> host <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Scarborough" title="Joe Scarborough" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Joe Scarborough</a> called him "without a doubt the most powerful force in American conservatism. He has [been] for two, three, four years."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-32" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[32]</a>In a December 2010, press conference, former president <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bill Clinton</a> – a Democrat – called Krauthammer "a brilliant man".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-balz1211-33" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[33]</a> Krauthammer responded, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue-in-cheek" title="Tongue-in-cheek" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">tongue-in-cheek</a>, that "my career is done" and "I'm toast."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-34" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[34]</a>On September 26, 2013, Krauthammer received the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F.Buckley" class="mw-redirect" title="William F. Buckley" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">William F. Buckley</a> Award for Media Excellence.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-35" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[35]</a>Krauthammer's other awards included the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_for_the_American_Way" title="People for the American Way" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">People for the American Way</a>'s First Amendment Award, the Champion Media Award for Economic Understanding from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Tuck_School_of_Business_Administration" class="mw-redirect" title="Amos Tuck School of Business Administration" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Amos Tuck School of Business Administration</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-36" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[36]</a> the first annual <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Bradley Prize" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Bradley Prize</a>, the 2002 "Mightier Pen" award from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Security_Policy" title="Center for Security Policy" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Center for Security Policy</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-CSP-37" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[37]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-38" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[38]</a> the 2004 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Kristol_Award" title="Irving Kristol Award" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Irving Kristol Award</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-Menand-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-AEI-39" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[39]</a> and the 2009 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Breindel_Award_for_Excellence_in_Opinion_Journalism" title="Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-40" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[40]</a> an annual award given by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Breindel" title="Eric Breindel" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Eric Breindel Foundation</a>.<h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Views and perspectives[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_Krauthammer&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Views and perspectives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a>]</h2><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bioethics and medicine[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_Krauthammer&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Bioethics and medicine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a>]</h3>Krauthammer was a supporter of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion" title="Abortion" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">abortion</a> legalization (although he believed Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided) and opposed to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia" title="Euthanasia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">euthanasia</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-41" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[41]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-42" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[42]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-43" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[43]</a>Krauthammer was appointed to President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">George W. Bush</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President%27s_Council_on_Bioethics" title="President's Council on Bioethics" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Council on Bioethics</a> in 2002. He supported relaxing the Bush administration's limits on federal funding of discarded human embryonic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cell_laws_and_policy_in_the_United_States" title="Stem cell laws and policy in the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">stem cell research</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-44" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[44]</a> Krauthammer supported <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embryonic_stem_cell_research" class="mw-redirect" title="Embryonic stem cell research" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">embryonic stem cell research</a> using embryos discarded by fertility clinics with restrictions in its applications.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-45" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[45]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-46" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[46]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-47" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[47]</a> However, he opposed human <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloning" title="Cloning" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">cloning</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-48" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[48]</a> He warned that scientists were beginning to develop the power of "creating a class of superhumans". A fellow member of the Council, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_D.Rowley" class="mw-redirect" title="Janet D. Rowley" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Janet D. Rowley</a>, insists that Krauthammer's vision was still an issue far in the future and not a topic to be discussed at the present time.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-49" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[49]</a>In March 2009, Krauthammer was invited to the signing of an executive order by President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Barack Obama</a> at the White House but declined to attend because of his fears about the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloning_of_human_embryos" class="mw-redirect" title="Cloning of human embryos" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">cloning of human embryos</a> and the creation of normal human embryos solely for purposes of research. He also contrasted the "moral seriousness" of Bush's stem cell address of August 9, 2001, with that of Obama's address on stem cells.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-50" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[50]</a>Krauthammer was critical of the idea of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_wills" class="mw-redirect" title="Living wills" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">living wills</a> and the current state of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-of-life(medical_treatment)" class="mw-redirect" title="End-of-life (medical treatment)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">end-of-life counseling</a> and feared that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obamacare" class="mw-redirect" title="Obamacare" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Obamacare</a> would just worsen the situation:<blockquote class="templatequote" style="overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 40px; border-left: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">When my father was dying, my mother and brother and I had to decide how much treatment to pursue. What was a better way to ascertain my father's wishes: What he checked off on a form one fine summer's day years before being stricken; or what we, who had known him intimately for decades, thought he would want? The answer is obvious.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-51" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[51]</a></blockquote><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Energy and global warming[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_Krauthammer&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Energy and global warming" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a>]</h3>Krauthammer was a longtime advocate of radically higher energy <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_the_United_States" title="Taxation in the United States" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">taxes</a> to induce <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_conservation" title="Energy conservation" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">conservation</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-52" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[52]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-53" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[53]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-54" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[54]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-55" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[55]</a>Krauthammer wrote in The Washington Post on February 20, 2014, "I'm not a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming" class="mw-redirect" title="Global warming" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">global warming</a> believer. I'm not a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_denial" title="Climate change denial" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">global warming denier</a>." Objecting to declaring global warming settled science, he contended that much that is believed to be settled turns out not to be so.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-56" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[56]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Foreign policy[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_Krauthammer&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Foreign policy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a>]</h3>Krauthammer first gained attention in the mid-1980s when he first used the phrase "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan_Doctrine" title="Reagan Doctrine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Reagan Doctrine</a>" in his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="Time magazine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Time magazine</a> column.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-57" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[57]</a> The phrase was a reference to the American foreign policy of supporting anti-communist insurgencies around the globe (most notably <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua" title="Nicaragua" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Nicaragua</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angola" title="Angola" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Angola</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Afghanistan</a>) as a response to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brezhnev_Doctrine" title="Brezhnev Doctrine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Brezhnev Doctrine</a> and reflected a U.S. foreign policy that went beyond <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Containment" title="Containment" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">containment</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Soviet Union</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollback" title="Rollback" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">rollback</a> of recent Soviet influence in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World" title="Third World" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Third World</a>. The policy, which was strongly supported by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation" title="The Heritage Foundation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Heritage Foundation</a> foreign policy analysts and other conservatives, was ultimately embraced by Reagan's senior national security and foreign policy officials. Krauthammer's description of it as the "Reagan Doctrine" has since endured.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]In "The Poverty of Realism" (New Republic, February 17, 1986), he asserted:<blockquote class="templatequote" style="overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 40px; border-left: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">that the end of American foreign policy is not just the security of the United States, but what <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F.Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John F. Kennedy</a> called "the success of liberty." That means, first, defending the community of democratic nations (the repository of the liberal idea) and second, encouraging the establishment of new liberal policies at the frontier, most especially in the Third World.</blockquote>The foreign policy, he argued, should be both "universal in aspiration" and "prudent in application", thus combining American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idealism(international_relations)" class="mw-redirect" title="Idealism (international relations)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">idealism</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realism_in_international_relations_theory" class="mw-redirect" title="Realism in international relations theory" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">realism</a>. Over the next 20 years these ideas developed into what is now called "democratic realism."[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]Following the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Cold War</a>, Krauthammer penned an article entitled "The Unipolar Moment".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-Unipolar-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a> Krauthammer coined the term unipolarity to describe the world structure that was emerging with the fall of the Soviet Union.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>] Krauthammer predicted that the bipolar world of the Cold War would give way not to a multipolar world in which the U.S. 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. He also suggested that American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegemony" title="Hegemony" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">hegemony</a> would inevitably exist for only a historical "moment" lasting at most three or four decades.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]Hegemony gave the United States the capacity and responsibility to act unilaterally if necessary, Krauthammer argued. Throughout the 1990s, however, he was circumspect about how that power ought to be used. He split from his neoconservative colleagues who were arguing for an interventionist policy of "American greatness". 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.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-autogenerated1-58" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[58]</a> Krauthammer opposed purely "humanitarian intervention" (with the exception of overt genocide). While he supported the 1991 Gulf War on the grounds of both humanitarianism and strategic necessity (preventing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein" title="Saddam Hussein" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Saddam Hussein</a> from gaining control of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Gulf" title="Persian Gulf" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Persian Gulf</a> and its resources), he opposed American intervention in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_Wars" title="Yugoslav Wars" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Yugoslav Wars</a> on the grounds that America should not be committing the lives of its soldiers to purely humanitarian missions in which there is no American national interest at stake.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-59" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[59]</a>Krauthammer's major 2004 monograph on foreign policy, "Democratic Realism: An American Foreign Policy for a Unipolar World",<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-autogenerated1-58" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[58]</a> was critical both of the neoconservative Bush doctrine for being too expansive and utopian, and of foreign policy "realism" for being too narrow and immoral; instead, he proposed an alternative he called "Democratic Realism".In a 2005 speech later published in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commentary(magazine)" title="Commentary (magazine)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Commentary</a> magazine, Krauthammer called neoconservatism "a governing ideology whose time has come." He noted that the original "fathers of neoconservatism" were "former liberals or leftists." More recently, they have been joined by "realists, newly mugged by reality" such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condoleezza_Rice" title="Condoleezza Rice" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Condoleezza Rice</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cheney" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Cheney" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Richard Cheney</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">George W. Bush</a>, who "have given weight to neoconservatism, making it more diverse and, given the newcomers' past experience, more mature."[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]In a 2008 column entitled "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Gibson" class="mw-redirect" title="Charlie Gibson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Charlie Gibson</a>'s Gaffe", Krauthammer elaborated on the changing meanings of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_Doctrine" title="Bush Doctrine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bush Doctrine</a> in light of Gibson's questioning of Republican vice-presidential candidate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin" title="Sarah Palin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Sarah Palin</a> regarding what exactly the Bush Doctrine was, which resulted in criticism of Palin's response. Krauthammer states that the phrase originally referred to "the unilateralism that characterized the pre-9/11 first year of the Bush administration," but elaborates, "There is no single meaning of the Bush doctrine. In fact, there have been four distinct meanings, each one succeeding another over the eight years of this administration."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-60" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[60]</a><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Israel[</h4>Krauthammer strongly opposed the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_accords" class="mw-redirect" title="Oslo accords" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Oslo accords</a> and said that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Liberation_Organization" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian Liberation Organization" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Palestinian Liberation Organization</a> leader <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasir_Arafat" class="mw-redirect" title="Yasir Arafat" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Yasir Arafat</a> would use the foothold it gave him in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank" title="West Bank" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">West Bank</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip" title="Gaza Strip" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Gaza Strip</a> to continue the war against Israel that he had ostensibly renounced in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Palestine_Liberation_Organization_letters_of_recognition" title="Israel–Palestine Liberation Organization letters of recognition" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Israel–Palestine Liberation Organization letters of recognition</a>. In a July 2006 essay in Time, Krauthammer wrote that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict" title="Israeli–Palestinian conflict" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Israeli–Palestinian conflict</a> was fundamentally defined by the Palestinians' unwillingness to accept compromise.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-61" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[61]</a>During the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Lebanon_War" title="2006 Lebanon War" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2006 Lebanon War</a>, Krauthammer wrote a column, "Let Israel Win the War": "What other country, when attacked in an unprovoked aggression across a recognized international frontier, is then put on a countdown clock by the world, given a limited time window in which to fight back, regardless of whether it has restored its own security?"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-62" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[62]</a> He later criticized Israeli prime minister <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehud_Olmert" title="Ehud Olmert" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ehud Olmert</a>'s conduct, arguing that Olmert "has provided unsteady and uncertain leadership. Foolishly relying on air power alone, he denied his generals the ground offensive they wanted, only to reverse himself later."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-63" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[63]</a>Krauthammer supported a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-state_solution" title="Two-state solution" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">two-state solution</a> to the conflict. Unlike many conservatives, he supported Israel's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_withdrawal" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaza withdrawal" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Gaza withdrawal</a> as a step toward rationalizing the frontiers between Israel and a future <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_state" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian state" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Palestinian state</a>. He believed a security barrier between the two states' final borders will be an important element of any lasting peace.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-64" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[64]</a>When <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Goldstone" title="Richard Goldstone" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Richard Goldstone</a> retracted the claim 1+1⁄2 years after the issuance of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Fact_Finding_Mission_on_the_Gaza_Conflict" title="United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">UN report on the 2008 Gaza war</a> that Israel intentionally killed Palestinian civilians,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-65" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[65]</a> including children, Krauthammer strongly criticized Goldstone, saying that "this weasel-y excuse-laden retraction is too little and too late" and called "the original report a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel" title="Blood libel" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">blood libel</a> ranking with the libels of the 19th century in which Jews were accused of ritually slaughtering children in order to use the blood in rituals." Krauthammer thought that Goldstone "should spend the rest of his life undoing the damage and changing and retracting that report."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-66" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[66]</a><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">9/11, Iraq, and the War on Terror[</h4>Krauthammer laid out the underlying principle of strategic necessity restraining democratic idealism in his controversial 2004 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Kristol_Award" title="Irving Kristol Award" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Kristol Award</a> Lecture: "We will support democracy everywhere, but we will commit blood and treasure only in places where there is a strategic necessity—meaning, places central to the larger war against the existential enemy, the enemy that poses a global mortal threat to freedom."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-autogenerated1-58" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[58]</a>The 9/11 attacks, Krauthammer wrote, made clear the new existential threat and the necessity for a new interventionism. On September 12, 2001, he wrote that, if the suspicion that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin_Laden" class="mw-redirect" title="Bin Laden" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">bin Laden</a> was behind the attack proved correct, the United States had no choice but to go to war in Afghanistan.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-67" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[67]</a> He supported the Second Iraq War on the "realist" grounds of the strategic threat the Saddam regime posed to the region as UN sanctions were eroding and of his alleged <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction" title="Iraq and weapons of mass destruction" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">weapons of mass destruction</a> and on the "idealist" grounds that a self-sustaining democracy in Iraq would be a first step toward changing the poisonous political culture of tyranny, intolerance, and religious fanaticism in the Arab world that had incubated the anti-American extremism from which 9/11 emerged.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]In October 2002, he presented what he believed were the primary arguments for and against the war, writing, "Hawks favor war on the grounds that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein" title="Saddam Hussein" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Saddam Hussein</a> is reckless, tyrannical, and instinctively aggressive, and that if he comes into possession of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons" class="mw-redirect" title="Nuclear weapons" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">nuclear weapons</a> in addition to the weapons of mass destruction he already has, he is likely to use them or share them with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorists" class="mw-redirect" title="Terrorists" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">terrorists</a>. The threat of mass death on a scale never before seen residing in the hands of an unstable madman is intolerable—and must be <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preemptive_war" title="Preemptive war" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">preempted</a>. Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_warfare" title="Urban warfare" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">urban warfare</a>."He continued: "I happen to believe that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preemptive_war" title="Preemptive war" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">preemption school</a> is correct, that the risks of allowing Saddam Hussein to acquire his weapons will only grow with time. Nonetheless, I can both understand and respect those few Democrats who make the principled argument against war with Iraq on the grounds of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterrence_theory" title="Deterrence theory" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">deterrence</a>, believing that safety lies in reliance on a proven (if perilous) balance of terror rather than the risky innovation of forcible disarmament by preemption."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-68" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[68]</a>On the eve of the invasion, Krauthammer wrote, "Reformation and reconstruction of an alien culture are a daunting task. Risky and, yes, arrogant."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-69" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[69]</a> In February 2003, Krauthammer cautioned that "it may yet fail. But we cannot afford not to try. There is not a single, remotely plausible, alternative strategy for attacking the monster behind 9/11. It's not Osama bin Laden; it is the cauldron of political oppression, religious intolerance, and social ruin in the Arab-Islamic world—oppression transmuted and deflected by regimes with no legitimacy into virulent, murderous <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Americanism" title="Anti-Americanism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">anti-Americanism</a>."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-autogenerated1-58" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[58]</a> Krauthammer in 2003 wrote that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_of_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="Reconstruction of Iraq" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">reconstruction of Iraq</a> would provide many benefits for the Iraqi people, once the political and economic infrastructure destroyed by Saddam was restored: "With its oil, its urbanized middle class, its educated population, its essential modernity, Iraq has a future. In two decades Saddam Hussein reduced its GDP by 75 percent. Once its political and industrial infrastructures are reestablished, Iraq's potential for rebound, indeed for explosive growth, is unlimited."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-70" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[70]</a>On April 22, 2003, Krauthammer predicted that he would have a "credibility problem" if weapons of mass destruction were not found in Iraq within the next five months.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-71" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[71]</a>In a speech to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Policy_Association" title="Foreign Policy Association" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Foreign Policy Association</a> in Philadelphia, he argued that the beginnings of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratization_in_the_Arab_world" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratization in the Arab world" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">democratization in the Arab world</a> had been met in 2006 with a "fierce counterattack" by radical <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamist" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamist" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Islamist</a> forces in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon" title="Lebanon" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Lebanon</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_territories" title="Palestinian territories" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Palestine</a>, and especially Iraq, which witnessed a major intensification in sectarian warfare.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-72" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[72]</a> In late 2006 and 2007, he was one of the few commentators to support the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War_troop_surge_of_2007" title="Iraq War troop surge of 2007" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">troop surge in Iraq</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-73" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[73]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-74" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[74]</a>In 2009, Krauthammer argued that the use of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture" title="Torture" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">torture</a> against enemy combatants was impermissible except in two contexts: (a) when "[an] innocent's life is at stake," "[the] bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life, [and he] refuses to divulge"; and (b) when torture may lead to "the extraction of information from a high-value enemy in possession of high-value information likely to save lives".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-75" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[75]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-76" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[76]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-77" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[77]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-78" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[78]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ideology[</h3><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meg_Greenfield" title="Meg Greenfield" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Meg Greenfield</a>, editorial page editor for The Washington Post who edited Krauthammer's columns for 15 years, called his weekly column "independent and hard to peg politically. It's a very tough column. There's no '<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trendy" class="mw-redirect" title="Trendy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">trendy</a>' in it. You never know what is going to happen next."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-wpwg-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrik_Hertzberg" title="Hendrik Hertzberg" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Hendrik Hertzberg</a>, also a former colleague of Krauthammer while they worked at The New Republic in the 1980s, said that when the two first met in 1978, Krauthammer was "70 percent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Mondale" title="Walter Mondale" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mondale</a> liberal, 30 percent '<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_M.Jackson" title="Henry M. Jackson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Scoop Jackson</a> Democrat,' that is, hard-line on Israel and relations with the Soviet Union"; in the mid-1980s, he was still "50–50: fairly liberal on economic and social questions but a full-bore foreign-policy neoconservative." Hertzberg in 2009 called Krauthammer a "pretty solid 90–10 Republican."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-79" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[79]</a> Krauthammer was described by some as having been a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_conservatism" class="mw-redirect" title="American conservatism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">conservative</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-Beinert_NYT-80" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[80]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-81" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[81]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Presidential elections[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_Krauthammer&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Presidential elections" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a>]</h3>A few days before the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_United_States_presidential_election" title="2012 United States presidential election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2012 United States presidential election</a>, Krauthammer predicted it would be "very close" with Republican candidate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney" title="Mitt Romney" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mitt Romney</a> winning the "popular [vote] by, I think, about half a point, Electoral College probably a very narrow margin."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-82" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[82]</a> Although admitting his incorrect prediction, Krauthammer maintained, "Obama won but had no mandate. He won by going very small, very negative."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-83" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[83]</a>Before the 2016 presidential election, Krauthammer stated that "I will not vote for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Hillary Clinton</a>, but, as I’ve explained in my columns, I could never vote for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Donald Trump</a>".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-vote-84" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[84]</a>In July 2017 following the release by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_Jr." title="Donald Trump Jr." style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Donald Trump Jr.</a> of the email chain about the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_campaign%E2%80%93Russian_meetings#Trump_Tower_meeting,June_9,2016" class="mw-redirect" title="Trump campaign–Russian meetings" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Trump Tower</a> meeting on June 9, 2016, Krauthammer opined that even bungled collusion is still collusion.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-jr-85" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">[</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-jr-85" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">85]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-jrii-86" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[86]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Religion[</h3>Krauthammer received a rigorous Jewish education. He attended a school where half the day was devoted to secular studies and half the day was devoted to religious education conducted in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language" title="Hebrew language" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Hebrew</a>. By the time he graduated from high school at the age of 16, Krauthammer was able to write philosophical essays in Hebrew. His father demanded that he learn <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talmud" title="Talmud" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Talmud</a>; in addition to his school's required Talmud studies, Krauthammer took extra Talmud classes three days a week. This was not enough for his father who hired a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbi" title="Rabbi" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">rabbi</a> to provide private instruction on the Talmud three nights a week.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-Conversations1-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a>Krauthammer's attachment to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Judaism</a> was strengthened through his study of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maimonides" title="Maimonides" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Maimonides</a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGill_University" title="McGill University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">McGill University</a> under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hartman(rabbi)" title="David Hartman (rabbi)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Rabbi David Hartman</a>. Krauthammer said, "I had discovered the world, and was going to leave all of this [Judaism] behind, because I was too sophisticated for it. And then in my third year I took Hartman’s course in Maimonides, and I’m thinking this is pretty serious stuff. It stands up to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_philosophy" title="Ancient Greek philosophy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Greeks</a>, stands up to the philosophers of the age, and it gave me sort of a renewed commitment to and respect for my own tradition, which I already knew, but was ready to throw away. And I didn’t throw it away as a result of that encounter."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-Conversations1-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a>Krauthammer stated that "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism" title="Atheism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">atheism</a> is the least plausible of all theologies. I mean, there are a lot of wild ones out there, but the one that clearly runs so contrary to what is possible, is atheism".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-87" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[87]</a>Krauthammer opposed the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park51" title="Park51" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Park51</a> project in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Manhattan</a> for "reasons of common decency and respect for the sacred. No commercial tower over <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_National_Military_Park" title="Gettysburg National Military Park" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Gettysburg</a>, no <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convent" title="Convent" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">convent</a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp" title="Auschwitz concentration camp" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Auschwitz</a>, and no <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosque" title="Mosque" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">mosque</a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center_site" title="World Trade Center site" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ground Zero</a>. Build it anywhere but there."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-88" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[88]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Supreme Court nominations[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_Krauthammer&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Supreme Court nominations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a>]</h3>Krauthammer criticized President George W. Bush's 2005 nomination of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Miers" title="Harriet Miers" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Harriet Miers</a> to succeed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Supreme Court</a> Justice <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Day_O%27Connor" title="Sandra Day O'Connor" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Sandra Day O'Connor</a>. He called the nomination of Miers a "mistake" on several occasions. He noted her lack of constitutional experience as the main obstacle to her nomination.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]On October 21, 2005, Krauthammer published "Miers: The Only Exit Strategy",<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-89" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[89]</a> in which he explained that all of Miers's relevant constitutional writings are protected by both <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorney%E2%80%93client_privilege" title="Attorney–client privilege" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">attorney–client privilege</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_privilege" title="Executive privilege" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">executive privilege</a>, which presented a unique face-saving solution to the mistake: "Miers withdraws out of respect for both the Senate and the executive's prerogatives."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-90" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[90]</a> Six days later, Miers withdrew, employing that argument:<blockquote class="templatequote" style="overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 40px; border-left: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As I stated in my acceptance remarks in the Oval Office, the strength and independence of our three branches of government are critical to the continued success of this great Nation. Repeatedly in the course of the process of confirmation for nominees for other positions, I have steadfastly maintained that the independence of the Executive Branch be preserved and its confidential documents and information not be released to further a confirmation process. I feel compelled to adhere to this position, especially related to my own nomination. Protection of the prerogatives of the Executive Branch and continued pursuit of my confirmation are in tension. I have decided that seeking my confirmation should yield.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-91" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[91]</a></blockquote>The same day, NPR noted, "Krauthammer's scenario played out almost exactly as he wrote."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-92" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[92]</a> Columnist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.J.Dionne" title="E. J. Dionne" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">E. J. Dionne</a> wrote that the White House was following Krauthammer's strategy "almost to the letter".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-93" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[93]</a> A few weeks later, The New York Times reported that Krauthammer's "exit strategy" was "exactly what happened" and that Krauthammer "had no prior inkling from the administration that they were taking that route; he was later given credit for giving the Bush administration a plan."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-94" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[94]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Other issues[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_Krauthammer&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Other issues" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a>]</h3>Krauthammer was an opponent of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment" title="Capital punishment" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">capital punishment</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-95" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[95]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-96" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[96]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-97" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[97]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-98" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[98]</a> a critic of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_design" title="Intelligent design" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">intelligent design</a> movement, and an advocate of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_consensus" title="Scientific consensus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">scientific consensus</a> on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution" title="Evolution" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">evolution</a>; calling the religion-science controversy a "false conflict."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-99" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[99]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-100" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[100]</a> In 2005, Krauthammer wrote several articles likening <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_design" title="Intelligent design" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">intelligent design</a> to "tarted-up <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creationism" title="Creationism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">creationism</a>."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-101" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[101]</a><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Personal life[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_Krauthammer&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Personal life" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a>]</h2>In 1974, Krauthammer married his wife, Robyn, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawyer" title="Lawyer" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">lawyer</a> who stopped practicing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law" title="Law" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">law</a> in order to focus on her work as an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist" title="Artist" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">artist</a>. They had one child, Daniel Krauthammer.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-102" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[102]</a> Krauthammer's brother, Marcel, died in 2006.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-Marcel-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a>Krauthammer was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews" title="Jews" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jewish</a>, but described himself as "not religious" and "a Jewish <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto" title="Shinto" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Shinto</a>" who engages in "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veneration_of_the_dead" title="Veneration of the dead" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">ancestor worship</a>". At the same time, he was quite scornful of atheism and was once quoted as saying that of all the belief systems he was aware of, “the only one I know is NOT true is atheism.” His beliefs were sometimes described as a version of the “ceremonial Deism” exhibited by some of the U.S. Founding Fathers, particularly <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Thomas Jefferson</a>. He was also influenced by his study of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maimonides" title="Maimonides" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Maimonides</a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGill_University" title="McGill University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">McGill University</a> with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hartman(rabbi)" title="David Hartman (rabbi)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Rabbi David Hartman</a>, the head of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jerusalem</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalom_Hartman_Institute" title="Shalom Hartman Institute" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Shalom Hartman Institute</a> and professor of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy" title="Philosophy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">philosophy</a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGill_University" title="McGill University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">McGill</a> during Krauthammer's student days.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-103" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[103]</a>Krauthammer was a member of both the Chess Journalists of America<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-104" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[104]</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Foreign_Relations" title="Council on Foreign Relations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Council on Foreign Relations</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-105" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[105]</a> He was co-founder of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro_Musica_Hebraica" title="Pro Musica Hebraica" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Pro Musica Hebraica</a>, a not-for-profit organization devoted to presenting Jewish classical music, much of it lost or forgotten, in a concert hall setting.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-106" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[106]</a><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Death[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_Krauthammer&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Death" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a>]</h2>In August 2017, Krauthammer had a cancerous tumor removed from his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdomen" title="Abdomen" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">abdomen</a>. The surgery was thought to have been successful; however, on June 8, 2018, Krauthammer announced that his cancer had returned and that doctors had given him only weeks to live.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-107" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[107]</a> On June 21, he died of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_intestine_cancer" title="Small intestine cancer" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">small intestine cancer</a> in an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta" title="Atlanta" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Atlanta</a>, Georgia<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-nytobit-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a> hospital. He was 68. Krauthammer was survived by his wife and son.<h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Works[</h2><ul style="list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/common/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Cutting Edges: Making Sense of the Eighties (1988)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Democratic Realism: An American Foreign Policy for a Unipolar World, (2004 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.aei.org/publication/democratic-realism/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/common/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?48e54") right center no-repeat; padding-right: 13px;">speech</a>)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_That_Matter:Three_Decades_of_Passions,Pastimes_and_Politics" title="Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics</a> (2013)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors (with Daniel Krauthammer), Crown Forum, 2018 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer#cite_note-108" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[108]</a></li></ul><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">References</h2><div>...</div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer</a>

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</div><div class="headline"><h1 property="dc:title" datatype="" class="node-title">8 of the Worst Right-Wing Wackos This Week: War on Science Edition</h1></div><div class="the_body body_story clearfix"><div class="big_story_tools_bottom_container"><div class="authors_signup"><div class="talk_box"></div><div class="clear"> </div></div><div class="clear"> </div><div class="story_tools_bottom"><div class="text-size"><div class="story_tools_email"><div class="story_tools_print"><div class="story_tools_share"><div style="clear: left;"><div class="story-date">May 10, 2014  |  </div>1. CNN’s S.E. Cupp to Bill Nye: You science guys are bullying us. Remember when we all used to agree that science and knowledge were good things? When scholarship was respected? When we looked to educated people to do research and inform us about what was actually going on with the world?It wasn’t that long ago. This week, after the White House released a report on just how devastating climate change has shown itself to be right here at home, with superstorms, flooding, droughts and tornadoes already pounding America (and the rest of the world) with increasing frequency—the very phenomena reputable scientists have been warning about for a long time—what did the deniers do?They upped the ante. Not only are they impervious to knowledge, reason or fact, they apparently feel attacked by knowledge, reason and fact. So, they counterattacked. On CNN, S.E. Cupp accused scientists of being bullies. Scientists who are just trying to inform people about facts and something that affects us all. WTF is wrong with these people?It happened on CNN’s Crossfire. Heritage Foundation economist Nicholas Loris argued with science guy Bill Nye and activist Van Jones that the extreme weather trends are "uncertain.""I’m not a denier, I’m not a skeptic,” Loris said. “What I’m saying is, climate is changing — yes, manmade emission are in some part to that — but we haven’t seen these extreme weather event trends. The observed data doesn’t prove that."Poor Bill Nye was flabbergasted.“So let’s just start with, we don’t agree on the facts,” Nye said. “This third report came out, saying it’s very serious, you say no. There’s the essence of the problem, S.E."That would be the S.E. Cupp from the Heritage Foundation, who then said this to Bill Nye: “Isn’t it a problem when science guys attempt to bully other people? Nick here had to say, ‘I’m not a denier.’ He had to get it out: ‘I’m not a denier.’ Because really, the science group has tried to shame anyone who dares question this, and the point I’m trying to make is, it’s not working with the public.”Attack the scientists! The purveyors of knowledge! Kill the messengers!Anyone else getting a Taliban-like feeling from this crew?2. A sign that Fox News’ Benghazi obsession just might be getting out of hand.OK, we’re not sure, but we think it just might be possible that Fox News is developing an unhealthy obsession with Benghazi. We’re just worried that maybe they should see someone for that particular problem. There are treatments. Cognitive behavioral therapy can loosen the grip such obsessions have. You can acquire tools to drive away these negative, repetitive thoughts swirling around in your brain. The thoughts that are preventing you from thinking about or doing anything about actual problems like, oh, we don’t know... maybe climate catastrophe!!!Maybe we’re wrong though. Blowing the whole thing out of proportion. Here’s what got us worried. You tell us. Does this seem like a worrisome sign?It was on Monday, just after the White House released the landmark report on climate change and its observable disastrous effects. It also announced that President Obama would be doing interviews with local weather announcers and meteorologists around the country to try to get the word out, and deliver the information from a source people generally know and trust, like Al Roker or (insert your local weatherperson here).Here’s Fox News host Dana Perino on that:<blockquote>"Tomorrow, President Obama is going to do interviews with meteorologists all across the country about a new climate change report ... I hope they ask him about Benghazi!"</blockquote>Hear that, Al Roker?3. Charles Krauthammer continues the assault on science, calling it superstition.Fox News managed to find another crazy, irresponsible idiot disguised as a sentient being to debunk facts and science: good old Charles Krauthammer. He said on Tuesday that the belief in global climate change is mere “superstition” akin to the “rain dance of Native Americans.”Why would he say such a provably wrong thing? We have no idea. It could be wishful thinking. Sure, we wish this whole climate change catastrophe would go away, and that we could wake up from it like a bad dream. We wish all these meanie scientists conducting real research based on actual facts would just stop discovering that the news is so very, very bad, and bullying us about it.Krauthammer took his point a little further, about science actually being superstition. Yah, and the other way around, too. Up is down, Charles. Black is white. No is yes. “It’s always a result of what is ultimately what we’re talking about here, human sin with pollution of carbon. It’s the oldest superstition around. It was in the Old Testament, it’s in the rain dance of Native Americans — if you sin, the skies will not cooperate.”Still more crazy talk from Chuckie Kraut: “Ninety-nine percent of physicists were convinced that space and time are fixed, until Einstein working in a patent office wrote a paper in which he showed that they are not,” Krauthammer said. “I’m not impressed by numbers, I’m not impressed by consensus.”What does impress you, Charles? On second thought, maybe don’t answer that.4. Pat Robertson: Fighting climate change will destroy America.Pat Robertson added his sober assessment to the news of the <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/05/06/what-climate-change-means-regions-across-america" style="">new study on climate change’s damaging impact on the U.S.</a> [3] by warning that efforts to combat climate change will “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeCTozLH6tI&feature=youtu.be" style="">destroy America</a> [4].”During his “700 Club” program Monday night, Robertson said actions to curb human-influenced climate change are part of an anti-American “socialist agenda,” saying it all goes back to “the playbook of Obama’s mentor.”He did not appear to notice that he resembled an insane man as he said it.Fighting climate change “is high on the agenda of the radicals who want to destroy America, it isn’t high on the agenda of those who really care about what goes on in life,” he said.Patty, just one question. What the hell are you talking about?h/t: <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-robertson-says-fighting-climate-change-will-destroy-america#sthash.izOqvRdE.dpuf" style="">rightwingwatch</a> [5]5. Fox News is just wondering if female breadwinners are a recipe for disaster. Just wondering.It takes a ton of work, a huge budget and an army of numbskulls to try to set the social clock back roughly to the Victorian era. Or maybe just the 1950s. Either way. Lots of work. But the Fox Newsians are on it.Some women are making good money.  More than their husbands, apparently. Is that good? Fox News is just wondering. It’s emasculating. They’re just saying. Just reporting the news, that’s all.This was the topic of a discussion Brian Kilmeade and Elisabeth Hasselbeck had with author financial writer/professional advice giver Farnoosh Torabi, who managed to be pretty calm in the face of questions like Kilmeade’s: “Is it worth it to have the man be the second highest paid person in the house?”Because sometimes husbands cheat under those circumstances. And sometimes marriages break up when the man makes less. And we all know that none of those things happen when the man makes more.And what if he’s the third highest earning person in the house? Like, what if one of the kids' careers takes off. What then? Would he divorce his kids?Well, we don’t know, but something is going to have to be done, because the statistic they are citing is that in 24 percent of households, women are out-earning men. While normally Fox likes it when people earn money, especially rich people, they like it a little less when women do it, and emasculate their men.h/t: <a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2014/05/06/fox-news-wonders-if-female-breadwinners-are-a-r/199180" style="">mediamatters</a> [6]6. AZ Christian pastor: Women in yoga pants partially responsible for rape.Last month, Dean Saxton, a University of Arizona student who <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/25/arizona-campus-preacher-to-anti-rape-protesters-you-deserve-rape/" style="">preaches under the name Brother Dean Samuel</a> [7], <a href="http://womenspost.ca/you-deserve-rape-sign-sparks-outrage/" style="">protested outside a documentary</a> [8] about 1998 Miss World Pageant winner and rape survivor Linor Abargil.It was her fault, he explained this week in an interview with Vice. She had put out some provocative pictures of herself. Therefore, she was asking for it. “I believe that if she was at home, and if she had kept to her Orthodox Jewishness, that rape would really probably would not have happened.”Nice. This douchebag also likes to wear T-shirts that say “You whore.”During his protest, he held a sign that said “You Deserve Rape.” He yelled at women to “give up your immodest clothing” and that “yoga pants are a sin.”Do not even get him started on downward-facing dog.h/t: <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/05/arizona-pastor-women-in-yoga-pants-are-partially-responsible-for-rape/" style="">rawstory</a> [9]7.  Tony Perkins warns that condom use leads to tyranny, because, of course it does.Family Research Council president Tony Perkins responded to the news this week that the Department of Education will investigate 55 colleges and universities for “<a href="http://www.npr.org/2014/05/07/310417196/sexual-assault-on-campus-challenges-students" style="">mishandling sexual assault claims</a> [10]” by coming to the very reasonable conclusion that contraception distribution “leads to tyranny.”Huh? Sorry, Tony. Care to connect those dots for us?Well, the problem, Perkins said on his “<a href="http://www.frc.org/wwlivewithtonyperkins/andrew-mccarthy-chris-smith-chris-gacek" style="">Washington Watch</a> [11]” program, is “the sexualization that is taking place in our culture in general but on college campuses.”Right, because 18- to 22-year-olds never used to think about sex. Furthest thing from their minds.“Contraception is made available as if it were candy which sends a message, well it’s there, it must be there for a reason, and then we’re surprised when — this is not justification, it’s wrong, we are all responsible for our actions — but we’re surprised when people act on these outside factors that they are surrounded by,” Perkins sputtered.Then, the non sequitur he apparently thought followed his already wobbly sequence of kind-of thoughts:  “It leads to tyranny,” he said.Dot connection fail.h/t: <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/tony-perkins-warns-condom-use-leads-tyranny#sthash.JZmK8Wrw.dpuf" style="">rightwingwatch</a> [12]8. Gordon Klingenschmitt speculates that forbidden fruit in Genesis might have been marijuana.Hoo boy! Crazy Gordon Klingenschmitt was at it again the other day on his “Pray in Jesus Name” program. Seems Klingenschmitt, a.k.a. “Dr. Chaps” felt called to respond to those “pot hippies” who cite Genesis 1:29, the line about God having given you "every herb bearing seed," as biblical justification for legalizing weed.Oh, those dastardly hippies. Reading the bible? That is just low!Klingenschmitt has cooked up a theory in his busy little brain that maybe the “forbidden fruit” was no apple; it was marijuana (maybe disguised as an apple? or smoked in an apple?).No, actually, he’s done a little research. The bible does not use the word “apple,” he pointed out. It uses the word “forbidden weed.”C’mon, people, weed?!! Remind you of anything?“How do you know that the serpent didn't give pot to Eve and say 'go ahead, and the day that you eat this, you're not going to die,'” Klingenschmitt said. “But you are going to die.”Oh man, what a buzz kill.h/t: <a href="http://-%20see%20more%20at:%20http//www.rightwingwatch.org/content/klingenschmitt-speculates-forbidden-fruit-eaten-adam-and-eve-may-have-been-marijuana#sthash.1I0Pa99M.dpuf" style="">rightwingwatch</a> [13]</div><div class="big_story_tools_bottom_container"><div class="authors_signup"><div class="talk_box"></div><div class="clear"> </div></div><div class="tags">See more stories tagged with:<div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/tags/se-cupp" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" style="">s.e. cupp</a> [15],</div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/tags/charles-krauthammer" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" style="">charles krauthammer</a> [16],</div><div class="field-item even"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/tags/fox-news" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" style="">fox news</a> [17],</div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/tags/climate-change" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" style="">climate change</a> [18],</div><div class="field-item even"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/tags/climate-change-denial-0" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" style="">climate change denial</a> [19]</div></div></div></div><div class="comment_button"><div class="print-footer" style="text-align: center;"><hr class="print-hr" style="border: 0px; height: 1px; width: 1551px; background-color: rgb(158, 158, 158);" /><div class="print-source_url" style="">Source URL: <a href="http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/8-worst-right-wing-wackos-week-war-science-edition" style="">http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/8-worst-right-wing-wackos-week-war-science-edition</a></div><div class="print-links" style="">Links:</div>

----Charles Krauthammer -- <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032401690.html" class="zoom" target="blank" style="outline-style: none; line-height: normal; background-image: url(" http="http" www.greenpeace.org="www.greenpeace.org" usa="usa" templates="Templates" planet3="Planet3" styles="Styles" images="images" bg-zoom.gif="bg-zoom.gif" padding="padding" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">Washington Post</a> sydicated columnist, pundit and contributor to the<a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/author/charles-krauthammer" class="zoom" target="blank" style="outline-style: none; line-height: normal; background-image: url(" http="http" www.greenpeace.org="www.greenpeace.org" usa="usa" templates="Templates" planet3="Planet3" styles="Styles" images="images" bg-zoom.gif="bg-zoom.gif" padding="padding" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">Weekly Standard</a> and <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/" class="zoom" target="blank" style="outline-style: none; line-height: normal; background-image: url(" http="http" www.greenpeace.org="www.greenpeace.org" usa="usa" templates="Templates" planet3="Planet3" styles="Styles" images="images" bg-zoom.gif="bg-zoom.gif" padding="padding" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">Town Hall Magazine</a>.Krauthammer is a fervent <a href="http://climateprogress.org/2011/02/10/charles-krauthammer-global-warming-is-a-religion-gore/" class="zoom" target="blank" style="outline-style: none; line-height: normal; background-image: url(" http="http" www.greenpeace.org="www.greenpeace.org" usa="usa" templates="Templates" planet3="Planet3" styles="Styles" images="images" bg-zoom.gif="bg-zoom.gif" padding="padding" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">climate obstructionist</a> who refers to global warming as a “religion,” and more broadly claims that “scientists are flip floppers, constantly changing their theories.” Krauthammer focuses on vilifying environmentalists and political icon <a href="http://climateprogress.org/2011/02/10/charles-krauthammer-global-warming-is-a-religion-gore/" class="zoom" target="blank" style="outline-style: none; line-height: normal; background-image: url(" http="http" www.greenpeace.org="www.greenpeace.org" usa="usa" templates="Templates" planet3="Planet3" styles="Styles" images="images" bg-zoom.gif="bg-zoom.gif" padding="padding" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">Al Gore</a>, rather than debating actual <a href="http://climateprogress.org/2008/06/01/krauthammer-part-2-the-real-reason-conservatives-dont-believe-in-climate-science/" class="zoom" target="blank" style="outline-style: none; line-height: normal; background-image: url(" http="http" www.greenpeace.org="www.greenpeace.org" usa="usa" templates="Templates" planet3="Planet3" styles="Styles" images="images" bg-zoom.gif="bg-zoom.gif" padding="padding" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">climate scientists</a>, in attempts to cast doubt upon the science of global warming. His disregard for accurate climate science is demonstrated by his references to <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/29/AR2008052903266.html" class="zoom" target="blank" style="outline-style: none; line-height: normal; background-image: url(" http="http" www.greenpeace.org="www.greenpeace.org" usa="usa" templates="Templates" planet3="Planet3" styles="Styles" images="images" bg-zoom.gif="bg-zoom.gif" padding="padding" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">Czech President Vaclav Klaus</a>. Klaus, a notorious climate science denier, was a keynote speaker at the 2009 International Conference on Climate Change. This event, run by the Heartland Institute, was a who’s who of career skeptic scientists and pseudo-experts for hire, <a href="http://www.heartland.org/events/NewYork09/sponsorships.html" class="zoom" target="blank" style="outline-style: none; line-height: normal; background-image: url(" http="http" www.greenpeace.org="www.greenpeace.org" usa="usa" templates="Templates" planet3="Planet3" styles="Styles" images="images" bg-zoom.gif="bg-zoom.gif" padding="padding" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">working for institutions </a>heavily funded by Koch foundations and ExxonMobil, among other polluters and <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/denial-a-palooza-4th-international-conference-climate-change-heartland" class="zoom" target="_blank" style="outline-style: none; line-height: normal; background-image: url(" http="http" www.greenpeace.org="www.greenpeace.org" usa="usa" templates="Templates" planet3="Planet3" styles="Styles" images="images" bg-zoom.gif="bg-zoom.gif" padding="padding" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">associated foundations</a>.==
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Charles Krauthammer<a href="http://www.marshall.org/experts.php?id=58" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.marshall.org/experts.php?id=58" rel="nofollow">[1]</a> "received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and practiced as Chief Resident in Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital from 1975 to 1978. In 1978 he came to Washington to serve as a science advisor in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=James_Earl_Carter,_Jr." title="James Earl Carter, Jr.">James Earl Carter, Jr.</a> Administration [to help plan psychological research]] and, later, speechwriter to Vice President <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Walter_Mondale" title="Walter Mondale">Walter Mondale</a>. He was a writer and editor for The New Republic from 1981 to 1988 and in the mid 1980s, began writing a weekly syndicated column for The Washington Post and a monthly essay for Time magazine.

"Dr. Krauthammer won a Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary and a National Magazine Award for Essays and Criticism. A collection of his essays and columns, Cutting Edge, was published in 1985. He is a regular weekly panelist on Inside Washington, a contributing editor to The New Republic and The <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Weekly_Standard" title="Weekly Standard" class="mw-redirect">Weekly Standard</a> and serves on the editorial board of several journals, including the National Interest and the Public Interest magazines."

Krauthammer is considered to be a "neo-con" (<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Neo-conservative" title="Neo-conservative">neo-conservative</a>). He is a member of the Board of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_C._Marshall_Institute" title="George C. Marshall Institute">George C. Marshall Institute</a>.

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Krauthammer, Charles

GMI Director at least 11/07/01-08/19/02.

Organizations: (short-time director) GMI

web.archive.org/web/20021008173451/www.marshall.org/experts.php?id=58

―He was a writer and editor for The New Republic from 1981 to 1988 and in the mid 1980s, began writing a

weekly syndicated column for The Washington Post and a monthly essay for Time magazine.

Dr. Krauthammer has won a Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary and a Nat ional Magazine Award for

Essays and Crit icism. A collection of his essays and columns, Cutting Edge, was published in 1985. He is a

regular weekly panelist on Inside Washington, a contributing editor to The New Republic and The Weekly

Standard and serves on the editorial board of several journals, including the National Interest and the Public

Interest magazines.”

He had earlier been a Science Advisor for President Carter, and speechwriter for Walter Mondale, but

clearly had shifted to the conservative political side by 1981, although his positions can be complex.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer

In particular, advocating radically higher energy taxes to encourage conservation might not fit GMI well.

Unlike most GMI Board members, his tenure was short, so the actual extent of his involvement is unclear.

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