Who is Charles Krauthammer? Flash Uganda Media looks at his biography, age, wife, family, tribe, achievements, and relationship with Shulim Krauthammer, Marcel, the early life and education of an American political commentator, columnist and professional psychiatrist.
Charles Krauthammer was an American political commentator, columnist and professional psychiatrist.
Krauthammer began his career as a political analyst and columnist in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
He contributed a weekly piece to The Washington Post and also participated as a weekly panellist on PBS’s Inside Washington program.
In addition to contributing to The Weekly Standard, Krauthammer was a panellist on Fox News Channel’s Special Report with Bret Baier every night and a contributor to Fox News.
Net Worth
It is estimated that Charles Krauthammer’s net worth by 2023 is $12 million.
This sum takes into consideration all of his revenue streams, including book sales, television appearances, and his columnist profession.
Even after his death, his net worth increased because royalties and intellectual property rights continued to bring in a sizable sum of money.
Early Life and Education
On March 13, 1950, in the Manhattan borough of New York City, Charles Krauthammer was born.
Shulim Krauthammer, his father, was born in Bolekhiv, Ukraine (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire) and eventually obtained French citizenship. He lived from November 23, 1904, and died on June 6, 1987.
His mother was from Antwerp, Belgium; she passed away on February 14, 2019, having been born on July 28, 1921. His brother, Marcel, passed away in 2006.
The household of the Krauthammer family spoke French. The Krauthammer’s moved to Montreal when Charles was five years old.
They spent the school year in Montreal and the summers in Long Beach, New York.
He attended Herzliah High School. His parents were both Orthodox Jews.
Krauthammer studied economics and political science at McGill University in Montreal, where he received first-class honours in 1970.
He claimed that his distaste for political radicalism was influenced by the radical atmosphere that prevailed at McGill University at the time.
After graduating from McGill, he studied politics at Balliol College, Oxford, as a Commonwealth Scholar the following year. He then went back to the United States to enrol at Harvard Medical School.
Krauthammer was paralysed from the waist down in his first year of medical school due to a diving accident.
Following a 14-month recuperative stay in a medical facility, he resumed his studies and completed his medical degree in 1975.
Krauthammer worked at Massachusetts General Hospital as a psychiatry resident from 1975 to 1978. In his last year, he held the position of chief resident.
While serving as chief resident, he observed a bipolar disorder variant of manic depression that he recognised and called secondary mania.
His research was released by the Archives of General Psychiatry. A groundbreaking study on the epidemiology of mania was also co-authored by him.
In 1978, he began working for the Carter administration as the director of psychiatric research. He moved to Washington, D.C., to oversee planning for the Carter administration’s psychiatric research programme.
He also started writing political articles for The New Republic and worked as Vice President Walter Mondale’s speechwriter in 1980.
He was involved in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders’ third edition. The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology granted him board certification in psychiatry in 1984.
He received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from McGill University on June 14, 1993.
Krauthammer wed Robyn in 1974; she was a lawyer who had given up her career to pursue her artistic endeavours. Daniel Krauthammer was the only child they had.
Personal Beliefs and Passions
Though Jewish, Krauthammer identified as “not religious” and a “Jude Shinto” who practised “ancestor worship”.
He was once reported as saying that, of all the belief systems he was aware of, “the only one I know is NOT true is atheism.” He was also highly contemptuous of atheism.
At times, his views were compared to the “ceremonial Deism” practised by some of the American Founding Fathers, most notably Thomas Jefferson.
Krauthammer belonged to the Council on Foreign Relations and the Chess Journalists of America.
He was one of the co-founders of Pro Musica Hebraica, a nonprofit organisation whose mission is to perform Jewish classical music in concert hall settings, including a lot of lost or forgotten pieces.
Krauthammer had a deep love for baseball. He got so into the game of chess that he eventually gave it up because he thought he was addicted.
Career and Professional Work Experience
Charles Krauthammer began working as an editor and writer for The New Republic in 1979.
He started penning essays for Time magazine in 1983, and it was an essay on the Reagan Doctrine that initially garnered him widespread recognition as a writer.
In 1985, Krauthammer began to write regular editorials for The Washington Post, which led to his rise to national prominence as a syndicated columnist.
Reagan Doctrine was first used and developed by Krauthammer in 1985. In his essay “The Unipolar Moment,” which was published soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, he outlined the United States’ position as the only superpower.
Krauthammer started participating in the weekly PBS political roundtable Inside Washington in 1990, and he stayed on the programme until its cancellation in December 2013.
His “Democratic Realism” speech, given in 2004 to the American Enterprise Institute, outlined a strategy for addressing the post-9/11 world with an emphasis on advancing democracy in the Middle East.
For many years, Krauthammer was a contributor on Fox News Channel as well.
Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes, and Politics was published by Krauthammer in 2013.
The book became an instant hit and topped The New York Times bestseller list for 38 weeks, including ten weeks in a row.
Owing to his cancer, Krauthammer ceased contributing to Fox News and writing his column in August 2017.
At the age of 68, he passed away on June 21, 2018.
The last revisions of his posthumously published book, The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavours, were completed by his son Daniel in December 2018.
Some of his other work includes, “Cutting Edges: Making Sense of the Eighties, Random House” which was published in 1988.
Achievements and Awards
Charles Krauthammer received the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1987, a testament to his extraordinary ability to write intelligent and provocative pieces for The Washington Post.
His status as a prominent voice in political journalism was cemented by this esteemed award.
More than 400 publications worldwide syndicated his weekly column.
Krauthammer received the “National Magazine Award for Essays and Criticism” in recognition of his New Republic essays.
Krauthammer was honoured with the American Academy of Achievement’s Golden Plate Award in 1999.
Krauthammer was named America’s most influential commentator by the Financial Times in 2006, noting that he “has influenced US foreign policy for more than two decades.”
Krauthammer, according to columnist David Brooks of The New York Times in 2010, was “the most important conservative columnist.”
In 2013, Krauthammer was also honoured with the William F. Buckley Award for Media Excellence.
The People for the American Way’s First Amendment Award, the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration’s Champion Media Award for Economic Understanding, the inaugural Bradley Prize, the Centre for Security Policy’s “Mightier Pen” award from 2002, the Irving Kristol Award from 2004, and the Eric Breindel Foundation’s annual Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism were among Krauthammer’s other awards.
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