Charles Krauthammer

Charles Krauthammer, MD (/ˈkraʊt.hæmər/; born March 13, 1950) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist, author, political commentator, and physician. His weekly column is syndicated to more than 400 newspapers worldwide. He is a contributing editor to the Weekly Standard and a nightly panelist on Fox News's Special Report with Bret Baier. He was a weekly panelist on PBS news program Inside Washington from 1990 until it ceased production in December 2013.

Personal life

Krauthammer was born on March 13, 1950, in New York City. His father was from France and his mother from the Netherlands. His brother, Marcel, was four years older. The family spoke French in the home. Through the school year they resided in Montreal, but spent the summers in Long Beach, N.Y. Both parents were Orthodox Jews, and he and his brother were educated at a Hebrew school. Said Krauthammer: "I got a rigorous Jewish education. I know what it is to be a Jew. There's a difference between being nominally Jewish or sentimentally Jewish, and being grounded in Jewish learning." He attended McGill University in Montreal, graduating in 1970 with First Class Honors in both economics and political science. The following year he was a Commonwealth Scholar in politics at Balliol College, Oxford before returning to the United States to attend medical school at Harvard.