Charles Krauthammer, the conservative columnist and commentator, has died of cancer at age 68. Earlier this month, he indicated that he had weeks to live. He had undergone an operation to remove a tumor from his abdomen in August 2017.
Charles Krauthammer was born in New York City to a father who came from Bolekhiv, Austria-Hungary (now in Ukraine) and a mother who came from Belgium, both of whom were Orthodox Jews. The family moved to Montreal, where he would graduate from McGill University in 1970. After studying as a Commonwealth Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford, he attended medical school at Harvard. During his first year at Harvard, he was injured in a diving board accident, which resulted in 14 months of hospitalization and a wheelchair for the rest of his life. He was still able to graduate in 1975, after which he became a resident in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. In 1978, he moved to Washington, D.C. where he became a speech writer for Vice President Walter Mondale and a contributor to The New Republic. He was board certified in psychiatry in 1984.
Krauthammer joined The New Republic in 1981, and would later write for The Washington Post, The Weekly Standard, Time and Inside Washington. He won a Pulitzer Prize for a column written for The Washington Post in 1985. He served as a contributor to Fox News, but discontinued his service to Fox and his Post column due to his battle with cancer in 2017. Although often called conservative, he realized during his time at McGill that he didn't like political extremism from either side. His Post columns were called "hard to peg politically" by editorial page editor Meg Greenfield.
Krauthammer is survived by his wife Robyn, who has been a lawyer and an artist, and by their son Daniel.
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