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Charles Krauthammer was born on the 13th of March, 1950 in New York City. His mother was from Belgium, while his father came from Ukraine. His mother and father can be described as an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox_Judaism">Orthodox Jews</a>. He has a younger brother, Marcel, who is four years his junior. While most families in America speak English at home, this wasn’t the case in the Krauthammer home, as they spoke French. His family relocated to Montreal when he was five years old. While he and his brother attended school in Montreal, they would spend their summers in Long Beach, New York.

Education

His first education was at a Hebrew School, which was also attended by his brother. In 1970, he graduated from the McGill University in Montreal, where he came out with First Class Honors in both political and economic science. During his days at McGill University, he was the center point of radical sentiment and this gave him a distaste of political extremism. Following his graduation from McGill, he studied as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Scholarship_and_Fellowship_Plan">Commonwealth Scholar</a> at Balliol College, Oxford. Following his time at Oxford, he attended Harvard Medical School. During his first year of medical school, he was injured in a diving accident. While diving into a pool, his head struck the bottom and severed his cervical vertebrae. This injury left him permanently paralyzed from the neck down. Since this accident he has required use of a wheel chair. Despite this injury, he graduated from Harvard in 1975. Between 1975 and 1978, Krauthammer completed his residency in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. He served as the chief resident in his final year.  During his residency, he authored several published studies on mania.

Career

Krauthammer moved to Washington D.C. in 1978.  He helped to direct psychiatric research for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter">Jimmy Carter</a>’s administration. During his first years in Washington he began writing.  He wrote speeches for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Mondale">Walter Mondale</a>’s failed presidential bid in 1980.  He also began writing for The New Republic and Time magazine.  His 1983 Time article on “the Reagan Doctrine” elevated his status as a political commentator. The term became popular and is still referred to today in political circles.

Despite the shift to political writing, he was board certified in psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology though he does not practice.

He began writing for the Washington Post in 1985.  His work for the Post won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1987.  He continues to write a column for the Washington Post to this day.  He began working for PBS’s Inside Washington in 1990 as a weekly panelist. He continued with the program from 1990 to 2013. In 2006, Krauthammer joined Fox News as a contributor.   He has been a regular on Fox News evening program Special Report since he began with the network.

Cold War

In his 1983 column on the “Reagan Doctrine”, Krauthammer expressed his views on American Cold War policy.  He advocated for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan">Reagan</a>’s policy on not only stopping the spread of communism, but of pushing it back from where it had spread.   These views represent what he believed was both an application of idealism and realism.

Israel

Krauthammer has frequently expressed his views on the Israeli Palestinian conflict.  He was an <a href="/biography/charles-krauthammer">opponent</a> of the Oslo Accords, as he was suspicious of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasser_Arafat">Yasir Arafat</a>’s intentions.  He has asserted in the past the lack of progress in any negotiations between the two sides has had much to do with Palestinian reluctance to accept any type of compromise.

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In 2006, during the Lebanon War, Krauthammer argued that the international community needed to let Israel win the war on its own terms.  He questioned the logic of a nation being given a time window in which it could defend itself.

He has professed his support for a two-state solution for the Israeli Palestinian conflict, but has stated that a security barrier will be necessary to retain peace.

The War on Terror

Krauthammer was a <a href="/biography/charles-krauthammer">proponent</a> of the 2003 US Invasion of Iraq. He believed that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein">Saddam Hussein</a> posed a credible threat and that building a solid democracy in Iraq was vital to stabilizing the region.  He has claimed that the real culprit behind the 9/11 attacks was not <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden">Osama Bin Laden</a>, but the political oppression that drove his followers to him.

Domestic Policy

Breaking from other conservatives, Krauthammer has stated support for legalized abortion.  Additionally, he opposes euthanasia and capital punishment. He stated in 2017 that he did not voted for <a href="/biography/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a> and believes that there could be evidence that the <a href="/biography/donald-trump">Trump</a> campaign colluded with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia">Russians</a> during the 2016 US Presidential Election.

Personal

In 1974, Krauthammer married Robyn Trethewey, an artist and attorney.  She began her career as a practicing lawyer but eventually became a full time artist. They are both Jewish. His wife created an NGO because she felt the traditional Jewish music has been neglected. Together, they have one child, Daniel Krauthammer. Currently they have been married for over 37 years. Krauthammer's brother, Marcel, died in 2006. In June 2018, following surgery to attempt removal of a cancerous tumor in his stomach, Krauthammer stated that his doctor’s had said he only has weeks to live.

He was named as the most influential commentator in America in 2006 by the Financial Times. He has influenced US foreign policy for decades.

He is estimated to have a net worth of about 8 million US dollars shows the vast salary he might be earning. Krauthammer has written a number of books, including “Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics” and “Democratic Realism: An American Foreign Policy for a Unipolar World.” He claims when he is not busy, he enjoys spending his leisure time with his wife and child at their home. He has a passion for playing chess and has interest in sculpture. Krauthammer has stated that he is confident when speaking in French and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language">Hebrew</a>. He loves visiting memorials and monuments, especially those which are devoted to the Vietnam War, Korean War and the Civil War.

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