Charles Krauthammer

Charles Krauthammer (1950-), born in New York, is a columnist for the Washington Post who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1987. He believes that "the notion that legitimacy derives from international consensus" is a moral absurdity and says that the way to build consensus is to be willing to act alone. He is a member of the Project for the New American Century whose goal is to promote American global leadership.

Krauthammer obtained a first-class honors degree in Political Science and Economics from McGill University. He was later a Commonwealth Scholar in politics at Oxford University's Balliol College. He earned an M.D. from Harvard University's medical school in 1975.

Unilateralism and Multilateralism

Krauthammer defends unilateralism and thinks that as a superpower the U.S. should assert its positions and invite others to join.

Defending the Zionism

Kr usually supportive to Israel. It is one of his most distinguished features. And he frequently accuse those who are critical to Israeli's policy of anti-Semitism or anti-Zionism.

In 2002, he received the Guardian of Zion Award from Bar-Ilan University's Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies for "his support of the Jewish State in print over the years." This honour has been given to Elie Wiesel (1997), Herman Wouk (1998), A.M. Rosenthal (1999), Martin Gilbert (2000), Cynthia Ozick (2001) and Ruth Roskies Wisse (2003).

On the Human Cloning Issue

As a former medical doctor and a columnist, Krauthammer was appointed to George W. Bush's Council on Bioethics in January 2002. He worried that cloning could be "creating a class of superhumans." However, his view was not widely accepted. A fellow member of the Council, Janet D. Rowley, a molecular geneticist at the University of Chicago, insisted that Krauthammer's vision is still 100 years away and not a topic to be discussed currently. [1]

Links

• American Unilateralism by Charles Krauthammer
• Charles Krauthammer: A Pen in Defense of Zion by Bret Stephens - June 13, 2002.
• The Great Stem Cell Hoax by Charles Krauthammer
• Commentary: Research on stem cells should be in the open by Charles Krauthammer
• Bush's Advisers on Ethics Discuss Human Cloning by Sheryl Gay Stolberg