Things that matter
Subtitle: three decades of passions, pastimes, and politics
By: Charles Krauthammer
Edition: First large print edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 526
ISBN-13: 9780804194518
Subjects: Politics and government; Popular culture; Civilization; History
Work titles: Essays
Description: America's preeminent columnist  presents his penetrating and surprising reflections on everything from embryo research to entitlement reform, from Halley's Comet to border collies, from Christopher Columbus to Martin Luther King, from drone warfare to American decline. Features a special, highly autobiographical introduction.
Notes: Selected essays previously published in various periodicals and journals.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Personal. The good and the great ; Manners ; Pride and prejudices ; Follies ; Passions and pastimes ; Heaven and Earth; title: Political. Citizen and state ; Conundrums ; Body and soul ; Man and God ; Memory and monuments; title: Historical. The Jewish question, again ; The Golden Age ; The age of holy terror ; The age to come; title: Global. Three essays on America and the world.