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
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the fight against hitler and sounded the alarm over communism. politics trumping science. that might explain why krauthammer traded a big-time medical career for a one-way ticket to washington and why, once here, his eyes locked on to a help wanted ad in the political opinion magazine the new republic. i showed it to my wife, and she said, why don t you apply? said, well, how can i apply? i ve never written anything, don t know anybody. she said, you write it, i ll hand-deliver it. i was intrigued, so i called him. michael kinsley was looking for a managing editor for the left-leaning magazine. was there something in his application, something during that phone call that made you want to bring him down? it was mainly the fact that he was a psychiatrist, because he had no writing samples. well, what did you see in him, though? you know, i just enjoy talking to him so much. i had this feeling he must be able to write this down. krauthammer gave it a shot.
sounded the alarm over communism. politics trumping science. that might explain why krauthammer traded a big-time medical career for a one-way ticket to washington and why, once here, his eyes locked on to a help wanted ad in the political opinion magazine the new republic. i showed it to my wife, and she said, why don t you apply? said, well, how can i apply? i ve never written anything, don t know anybody. she said, you write it, i ll hand-deliver it. i was intrigued, so i called him. michael kinsley was looking for a managing editor for the left-leaning magazine. was there something in his application, something during that phone call that made you want to bring him down? it was mainly the fact that he was a psychiatrist, because he had no writing samples. well, what did you see in him, though? you know, i just enjoy talking to him so much. i had this feeling he must be able to write this down. krauthammer gave it a shot. as the saying goes, he wrote
sounded the alarm over communism. politics trumping science. that might explain why krauthammer traded a big-time medical career for a one-way ticket to washington and why, once here, his eyes locked on to a help wanted ad in the political opinion magazine the new republic. i showed it to my wife, and she said, why don t you apply? said, well, how can i apply? i ve never written anything, don t know anybody. she said, you write it, i ll hand-deliver it. i was intrigued, so i called him. michael kinsley was looking for a managing editor for the left-leaning magazine. was there something in his application, something during that phone call that made you want to bring him down? it was mainly the fact that he was a psychiatrist, because he had no writing samples. well, what did you see in him, though? you know, i just enjoy talking to him so much. i had this feeling he must be able to write this down. krauthammer gave it a shot. as the saying goes, he wrote