The Pulitzer Prize winner is remembered by friends, former colleagues and others whose lives he touched
Charles Krauthammer, who died Thursday from complications of cancer, was a contributing editor at THE WEEKLY STANDARD from the magazine’s founding in 1995. He was also a Washington Post columnist, a Fox News contributor, and a Pulitzer Prize winner. We’ll be posting our own tributes to Krauthammer shortly. In the meantime, we’ve collected and excerpted the remembrances of some of the many journalists whose lives he touched.
At the Washington Post, columnist George Will r emembered his former colleague:
Commentary editor John Podhoretz–also a founding editor of THE WEEKLY STANDARD–tells of how he recruited Krauthammer to come to TWS and the challenges of working with such a perfectionist. He continues:
At Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro speaks for a younger generation of conservatives:
Nash Jenkins, congressional reporter for Time, tweeted a touching account of his own family’s experience with Krauthammer. Jenkins’ father met Krauthammer at a D. C. event in 2016 and chatted for awhile. Last year, Jenkins relates, his father was paralyzed in a surfing accident in Nicaragua. He shared the letter his father received from Krauthammer. (But do read the whole thread, starting here .)
Other notable figures–journalists, politicians and others, tweeted their memories:
