A new book. Things that matter is not a confessional memoir or scandalous kissandtell. Its a collection of newspaper and magazine pieces from the pulitzer prizewinning columnist. Or maybe its more than that. Are you decoding my book . I am decoding it right now. Like its entirely about me. [ laughs ] but its all written in hieroglyphics. Well, its not quite as impenetrable as hieroglyphics. Lets start with part one of your book, and it is titled personal. And in there, the first column is really an incredibly moving piece about your brother. Marcel krauthammer died of cancer. He was 59. Charles writes this about his older brother. He taught me most everything i ever learned about every sport i ever played. He taught me how to throw a football, hit a backhand, grip a nine iron, field a grounder, dock a sailboat in the tailing wind. And how we played. It was paradise. Tell me about that. It was a paradisiacal childhood. My brother and i were inseparable. He was four years older, which is
into oxford, as well, to study political theory. would krauthammer choose a life of science or a life of letters? the brilliant graduate had enviable options, but he hadn t figured out what mattered most to him, so he split the difference. he put off harvard, enrolled at oxford, and while studying history s great political philosophers, he met a fellow student from australia, robyn trethewey, attractive and brilliant, too, a clerk to the chief justice of her home state s supreme court. but so much would change in the three years between when they met and married, beginning with his sudden decision to leave england. i had this little epiphany of sorts. i started in political theory. it was getting more and more abstract. i learned a lot, but i began to feel that i was very sort of spinning out into a universe that didn t have anything to do with the real world. i called the registrar at harvard medical school and said,
political theory. would krauthammer choose a life of science or a life of letters? the brilliant graduate had enviable options, but he hadn t figured out what mattered most to him, so he split the difference. he put off harvard, enrolled at oxford, and while studying history s great political philosophers, he met a fellow student from australia, robyn trethewey, attractive and brilliant, too, a clerk to the chief justice of her home state s supreme court. but so much would change in the three years between when they met and married, beginning with his sudden decision to leave england. i had this little epiphany of sorts. i started in political theory. it was getting more and more abstract. i learned a lot, but i began to feel that i was very sort of spinning out into a universe that didn t have anything to do with the real world. i called the registrar at harvard medical school and said, i d like to come in the coming
into oxford, as well, to study political theory. would krauthammer choose a life of science or a life of letters? the brilliant graduate had enviable options, but he hadn t figured out what mattered most to him, so he split the difference. he put off harvard, enrolled at oxford, and while studying history s great political philosophers, he met a fellow student from australia, robyn trethewey, attractive and brilliant, too, a clerk to the chief justice of her home state s supreme court. but so much would change in the three years between when they met and married, beginning with his sudden decision to leave england. i had this little epiphany of sorts. i started in political theory. it was getting more and more abstract. i learned a lot, but i began to feel that i was very sort of spinning out into a universe that didn t have anything to do with the real world. i called the registrar at harvard medical school and said,
into oxford, as well, to study political theory. would krauthammer choose a life of science or a life of letters? the brilliant graduate had enviable options, but he hadn t figured out what mattered most to him, so he split the difference. he put off harvard, enrolled at oxford, and while studying history s great political philosophers, he met a fellow student from australia, robyn trethewey, attractive and brilliant, too, a clerk to the chief justice of her home state s supreme court. but so much would change in the three years between when they met and married, beginning with his sudden decision to leave england. i had this little epiphany of sorts. i started in political theory. it was getting more and more abstract. i learned a lot, but i began to feel that i was very sort of spinning out into a universe that didn t have anything to do with the real world. i called the registrar at harvard medical school and said, i d like to come in the coming