Charles Krauthammer

Charles Krauthammer ( born March 13, 1950 in New York) is an American columnist and journalist. He developed and shaped the so-called Reagan Doctrine of 1985.

Life

Krauthammer was educated at McGill University in Political Science and then to 1971 in Oxford Economics. In addition, he studied until 1975 medicine at Harvard University and graduated as Doctor of Medicine. According to various activities, including a psychiatric hospital, he entered in 1978 in the Democratic Party at the time of the Carter administration, and began to write his first columns in The New Republic. Krauthammer was chief speechwriter for Carter's Vice-President Walter Mondale during the U.S. presidential election campaign in 1980, the Ronald Reagan decided in his favor.

Krauthammer changed during the Reagan administration, the political camp and is considered a national conservative and aligned, in particular, it represents an end to the cooperation of the United States with the UN and a relentless Israeli policy towards the Palestinians. It is attributed to the neo-conservatives in its essential positions.

Krauthammer's columns appear in numerous newspapers and online publications, including the Washington Post, in The National Interest and Jewish World Review. He has also published contributions in the U.S. magazine TIME and is a regular guest on Fox News. He is a member of the Advisory Council of the Nixon Center and the Project for the New American Century.

He coined the in the United States common, beyond their largely unknown political slogan Bush Derangement Syndrome (in German about: Bush derangement PRIME syndrome ), which he as defined follows "the 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 attack of paranoia in otherwise normal people in terms of politics, the presidency - even the very existence of George W. Bush " ) and with its opinion, a widespread, highly irrational and unthinking form of rejection of George W. Bush, his administration, his supporters and his constituents is characterized.

In 1987 he received the Pulitzer Prize for his columns in the Washington Post. In 2004 he received from the neo-conservative American Enterprise Institute, the Irving Kristol Award. Krauthammer lives in Washington, D.C. and, with his wife Robyn, an artist, a son.