From America’s preeminent columnist, named by the Financial Times the most influential commentator in the nation, the long-awaited collection of Charles Krauthammer’s essential, timeless writings.
A brilliant stylist known for an uncompromising honesty that challenges conventional wisdom at every turn, Krauthammer has for decades dazzled readers with his keen insight into politics and government. His weekly column is a must-read in Washington and across the country. Now, finally, the best of Krauthammer’s intelligence, erudition, and wit are collected in one volume.
Listeners will find here not only the country’s leading conservative thinker, offering a passionate defense of limited government, but also a highly independent mind whose views – on feminism, evolution, and the death penalty, for example – defy ideological convention.
Things That Matter also features several of Krauthammer’s major path-breaking essays – on bioethics, on Jewish destiny, and on America’s role as the world’s superpower – that have profoundly influenced the nation’s thoughts and policies. And finally, the collection presents a trove of always penetrating, often bemused reflections on everything from border collies to Halley’s Comet, from Woody Allen to Winston Churchill, from the punishing pleasures of speed chess to the elegance of the perfectly thrown outfield assist.
With a special, highly autobiographical introduction, in which Krauthammer reflects on the events that shaped his career and political philosophy, this indispensable chronicle takes the listener on a fascinating journey through the fashions and follies, the tragedies and triumphs, of the last three decades of American life.
The Best of a Top-Shelf Columnist Charles Krauthammer has been a leading voice for conservatism during the Obama years, but his run as a superlative columnist stretches back to the 1980s. “Things That Matter” is a collection of Krauthammer’s best columns and essays of the last few decades.Krauthammer was a liberal when he was younger, but recounts his journey across the political spectrum and his path from medicine to journalism. While he says that the topics that most captivate the human mind are not…
First chapter sold me. My wife bought this book for me a while back but I was in the process of finishing other books I had been reading. After the passing of this great man last night, I pulled the book out and started reading it, not really knowing what to expect. After reading the first chapter, I had tears in my eyes as this chapter made me recall my own brother who passed 10 years ago and was 7 years younger than me. I had little time with him until we both aged but he left us too soon.Although I have not…
He would switch to CNN from time to time so I would get a good listen on them Having an extreme right-wing father, he would put on FOX news every evening after work while casually drinking beer. Growing up, the voices of the FOX reporters would be in the background. He would switch to CNN from time to time so I would get a good listen on them. What both channels had in common was that these so-called adults would complain like little kids most of the time. But one stood out that had a very calm attitude, which was Charles Krauthammer. Asking myself how he keeps his…