Deschutes Public Library

Things that matter, three decades of passions, pastimes, and politics, Charles Krauthammer

eng

index present

non fiction

Things that matter

827973760

Charles Krauthammer

three decades of passions, pastimes, and politics

America's preeminent columnist presents his penetrating and surprising reflections on everything from embryo research to entitlement reform, from Halley's Comet to border collies, from Christopher Columbus to Martin Luther King, from drone warfare to American decline. Features a special, highly autobiographical introduction

Good and the great., Marcel, my brother, Winston Churchill: the indispensable man, Paul Erdos: sweet genius, Rick Ankiel: return of the natural, Christopher Columbus: dead white male, Hermann Lisco: man for all seasons, Manners., No dancing in the end zone, "Women and children." Still?, Don't touch my junk, Accents and affectations, Appeal of ordeal, Pride and prejudices., Pariah Chess Club, Of dogs and men, In defense of the f-word, Central Axiom of partisan politics, Krauthammer's First Law, Follies., Save the border collie, Bush Derrangement Syndrome, Life by manual, From people power to polenta, Annals of "art", "Natural" childbirth, Inner man: who cares, Mirror-image fallacy, Passions and pastimes., Joy of losing, Beauty, truth and Hitchcock, Fermat solved, Be afraid, Best show in town, Heaven and Earth., Your only Halley's, Humbled by the Hayden, Lift up for liftoff?, Farwell, the New Frontier, Are we alone in the universe?, Citizen and State., Reflections on the revolution in France, Did the State make you great?, Constitutionalism, Myth of the angry white male, Going negative, Tirana index, Conundrums., Without the noose, without the gag, Motherhood missed, Ambiguity and affirmative action, Massacre at Newtown, Pandora and polygamy, Empathy or right?, First a wall--then amnesty, In plain English--let's make it official, Of course it's a ponzi scheme, Church of global warming, Body and soul., Dutch example, Stem cells and fairy tales, Truth about end-of-life counseling, Mass murder, medicalized, Double tragedy of a stolen death, Essay: on the ethics of embryonic research, Man and God., Real message of creationism, God vs. Caesar, Body worship, Chernenko and the case against atheism, Memory and monuments., Sweet land of liberty, Holocaust museum, Sacrilege at Ground Zero, FDR: the dignity of denial, Martin Luther King in word and stone, Collective guilt, collective responsibility, Jewish question, again., Those troublesome Jews, Land without peace, Land without peace, Borat the Fearful, Judging Israel, Essay: Zionism and the fate of the Jews, Golden Age., '80s: revival, '90s: serenity, Cold War nostalgia, Age of Holy Terror., September 11, 2001, When imagination fails, "Borders of Islam are bloody", To war or not to war?, Surge, denied, Who lost Iraq?, From freedom agenda to freedom doctrine, Language and leadership, Hyperproliferation: can we survive it?, Death by drone, No hiding from history, Three essays on America and the world., Unipolar movement (1990), Democratic realism (2004), Decline is a choice (2009)

Three decades of passions, pastimes, and politics