Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and PoliticsCrown Publishing Group, 22 oct 2013 - 416 páginas From America’s preeminent columnist, named by the Financial Times the most influential commentator in the nation, a must-have collection of Charles Krauthammer’s essential, timeless writings. A brilliant stylist known for an uncompromising honesty that challenged conventional wisdom at every turn, Krauthammer dazzled readers for decades with his keen insight into politics and government. His weekly column was a must-read in Washington and across the country. Don’t miss the best of Krauthammer’s intelligence, erudition and wit collected in one volume. Readers will find here not only the country’s leading conservative thinker offering a passionate defense of limited government, but also a highly independent mind whose views—on feminism, evolution and the death penalty, for example—defy ideological convention. Things That Matter also features several of Krauthammer’s major path-breaking essays—on bioethics, on Jewish destiny and on America’s role as the world’s superpower—that have profoundly influenced the nation’s thoughts and policies. And finally, the collection presents a trove of always penetrating, often bemused reflections on everything from border collies to Halley’s Comet, from Woody Allen to Winston Churchill, from the punishing pleasures of speed chess to the elegance of the perfectly thrown outfield assist. With a special, highly autobiographical introduction in which Krauthammer reflects on the events that shaped his career and political philosophy, this indispensible chronicle takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the fashions and follies, the tragedies and triumphs, of the last three decades of American life. |
Índice
THE GOOD AND THE GREAT | 19 |
Sweet Genius | 25 |
Dead White Male | 31 |
MANNERS | 37 |
Dont Touch My Junk | 43 |
The Appeal of Ordeal | 49 |
PRIDE AND PREJUDICES | 55 |
In Defense of the FWord | 61 |
BODY AND SOUL | 181 |
On the Ethics of Embryonic Research | 196 |
MAN AND GOD | 209 |
Holocaust Museum | 224 |
THE JEWISH QUESTION AGAIN | 241 |
Borat the Fearful | 248 |
Zionism and the Fate of the Jews | 258 |
THE GOLDEN AGE | 275 |
Krauthammers First | 67 |
Bush Derangement Syndrome | 74 |
From People Power to Polenta | 80 |
Natural Childbirth | 88 |
PASSIONS AND PASTIMES | 99 |
Fermat Solved | 105 |
The Best Show in Town | 112 |
Humbled by the Hayden | 118 |
Farewell the New Frontier | 124 |
CITIZEN AND STATE | 133 |
Constitutionalism | 139 |
Going Negative | 145 |
vi | 151 |
Empathy or Right? | 166 |
Cold War Nostalgia | 281 |
When Imagination Fails | 288 |
The Surge Denied | 296 |
From Freedom Agenda to Freedom Doctrine | 302 |
THE AGE TO COME | 309 |
No Hiding from History | 315 |
THREE ESSAYS ON AMERICA | 321 |
Democratic Realism 2004 | 333 |
Decline Is a Choice 2009 | 352 |
THE AGE OF OBAMA | 369 |
The Lawless Presidency | 375 |
Bewildered Bystander | 383 |
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