Charles Krauthammer

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Charles Krauthammer, 1986

Charles Krauthammer (born March 13, 1950 in New York , † June 21, 2018 in Atlanta , Georgia ) was an American columnist and publicist . Eugen Sorg described Krauthammer in the obituary in Weltwoche as "one of the most influential political commentators of our time".

Life

Krauthammer grew up in a Jewish family. His father was from Ukraine, his mother from Belgium. He graduated from McGill University in political science and then to 1971 at Balliol College of University of Oxford Economics . In addition, he studied medicine at Harvard University until 1975 and graduated as a doctor of medicine. During his studies he suffered a swimming accident, which left him paraplegic and was dependent on a wheelchair for his entire life. After working, among other things, in a psychiatric hospital, he joined in 1978 in the Democratic Party at the time of Carter a -Regierung and began his first columns in The New Republic to write. Krauthammer was chief speechwriter for Carter's Vice President Walter Mondale during the 1980 US presidential campaign , which Ronald Reagan won. Krauthammer coined the term " Reagan Doctrine " in one of his articles in Time magazine .

Krauthammer changed political camps during the Reagan administration and was henceforth considered to be conservative. In particular, he advocated an end to the United States' cooperation with the UN and an unyielding policy of Israel towards the Palestinians . In his main positions he was counted among the neoconservatives . In a 2005 speech (later published in Commentary Magazine ), Krauthammer described neoconservatism as a "government ideology whose time has now come" in laudatory recognition of the war policies of the George W. Bush administration. "What neoconservatives have long advocated" is now "articulated and practiced at the highest levels of government."

Krauthammer's columns have appeared in numerous daily newspapers and online publications, including the Washington Post , The National Interest, and the Jewish World Review . He has also published articles in the US magazine TIME and was a regular guest on Fox News . He was a member of the Advisory Council of the Nixon Center , the Council on Foreign Relations and the Project for the New American Century . In 1987 he received the Pulitzer Prize for his columns in the Washington Post. In 2004 he received the Irving Kristol Award from the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute . Krauthammer lived near Washington, DC and had a son with his wife, Robyn, an artist.

Krauthammer vehemently defended the administration of George W. Bush and accused its critics of being irrational. He coined the political catchphrase Bush Derangement Syndrome , which he defined as follows: “The. Bush Derangement Syndrome ”, which was temporarily used in the United States - especially among Republicans - but largely unknown outside of these circles acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency — nay — the very existence of George W. Bush ”(translation:“ An acute paranoia attack in otherwise normal people with regard to politics, the presidency - even the bare ones Existence of George W. Bush ") and with which one of his opinion widespread, completely irrational and unreflected form of rejection of George W. Bush, his administration, his supporters and his voters is characterized.

In 2012, Krauthammer caused a stir when, just before the presidential election (and against most polls), he predicted a landslide victory for Republican candidate Mitt Romney because the polls failed to reflect the true mood of the population. In 2016, however, he was one of those conservatives who distanced themselves from Donald Trump early on .

On June 8, 2018, Krauthammer said goodbye to his readers and announced that he was suffering from terminal cancer and only had a few weeks to live. He succumbed to his illness on June 21, 2018.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Weltwoche 26/18, page 15
  2. ↑ Ingo Way: Charles Krauthammer is dead , Jüdische Allgemeine, June 22, 2018
  3. ↑ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1741-5705.2006.00288.x .
  4. ^ A b Krauthammer, Charles: The Neoconservative Convergence , Commentary Magazine. July 1, 2005. Retrieved August 3, 2014. 
  5. ^ Membership Roster - Council on Foreign Relations . Cfr.org. Retrieved March 9, 2013.
  6. ^ The Delusional Dean ( December 18, 2005 memento in the Internet Archive ), originally published in the Washington Post , December 5, 2003, Sec. F, p. A31
  7. ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-note-to-readers/2018/06/08/3512010c-6b24-11e8-bea7-c8eb28bc52b1_story.html?noredirect=on
  8. ^ Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer dies at 68 , Rawstory.com, June 21, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Krauthammer, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American columnist
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 2018
Place of death Atlanta