Things that matter : three decades of passions, pastimes and politics

Krauthammer, Charles, 1950-2018 (Author).

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ISBN: 0385349173
ISBN: 9780385349178
Physical Description x, 387 pages ; 25 cm
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher New York : Crown Forum, [2013]
Copyright ©2013

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Things That Matter : Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics

Section	Section Description	Page Number
	Introduction	p. 1
Part 1	Personal	p. 17
Chapter 1	The Good and the Great	p. 19
	Marcel, My Brother	p. 19
	Winston Churchill: The Indispensable Man	p. 22
	Paul Erdos: Sweet Genius	p. 25
	Rick Ankiel: Return of the Natural	p. 28
	Christopher Columbus: Dead White Male	p. 31
	Hermann Lisco: Man for All Seasons	p. 34
Chapter 2	Manners	p. 37
	No Dancing in the End Zone	p. 37
	"Women and Children." Still?	p. 40
	Don't Touch My Junk	p. 43
	Accents and Affectations	p. 46
	The Appeal of Ordeal	p. 49
Chapter 3	Pride and Prejudices	p. 55
	The Pariah Chess Club	p. 55
	Of Dogs and Men	p. 58
	In Defense of the F-Word	p. 61
	The Central Axiom of Partisan Politics	p. 64
	Krauthammer's First Law	p. 67
Chapter 4	Follies	p. 71
	Save the Border Collie	p. 71
	Bush Derangement Syndrome	p. 74
	Life by Manual	p. 77
	From People Power to Polenta	p. 80
	Annals of "Art"	p. 83
	"Natural" Childbirth	p. 87
	The Inner Man? Who Cares	p. 90
	The Mirror-Image Fallacy	p. 93
Chapter 5	Passions and Pastimes	p. 99
	The Joy of Losing	p. 99
	Beauty, Truth and Hitchcock	p. 102
	Fermat Solved	p. 105
	Be Afraid	p. 108
	The Best Show in Town	p. 112
Chapter 6	Heaven and Earth	p. 115
	Your Only Halley's	p. 115
	Humbled by the Hayden	p. 118
	Lit Up for Liftoff?	p. 121
	Farewell, the New Frontier	p. 124
	Are We Alone in the Universe?	p. 127
Part 2	Political	p. 131
Chapter 7	Citizen and State	p. 133
	Reflections on the Revolution in France	p. 133
	Did the State Make You Great?	p. 136
	Constitutionalism	p. 139
	Myth of the Angry White Male	p. 142
	Going Negative	p. 145
	The Tirana Index	p. 148
Chapter 8	Conundrums	p. 151
	Without the Noose, Without the Gag	p. 151
	Motherhood Missed	p. 154
	Ambiguity and Affirmative Action	p. 157
	Massacre at Newtown	p. 160
	Pandora and Polygamy	p. 163
	Empathy or Right?	p. 166
	First a Wall--Then Amnesty	p. 169
	In Plain English-Let's Make It Official	p. 172
	Of Course It's a Ponzi Scheme	p. 175
	The Church of Global Warming	p. 178
Chapter 9	Body and Soul	p. 181
	The Dutch Example	p. 181
	Stem Cells and Fairy Tales	p. 184
	The Truth About End-of-Life Counseling	p. 187
	Mass Murder, Medicalized	p. 190
	The Double Tragedy of a Stolen Death	p. 193
	Essay: On the Ethics of Embryonic Research	p. 196
Chapter 10	Man and God	p. 209
	The Real Message of Creationism	p. 209
	God vs. Caesar	p. 212
	Body Worship	p. 215
	Chernenko and the Case Against Atheism	p. 218
Chapter 11	Memory and Monuments	p. 221
	Sweet Land of Liberty	p. 221
	Holocaust Museum	p. 224
	Sacrilege at Ground Zero	p. 227
	FDR: The Dignity of Denial	p. 230
	Martin Luther King in Word and Stone	p. 233
	Collective Guilt, Collective Responsibility	p. 236
Part 3	Historical	p. 239
Chapter 12	The Jewish Question, Again	p. 241
	Those Troublesome Jews	p. 241
	Land Without Peace	p. 245
	Borat the Fearful	p. 248
	Judging Israel	p. 251
	Essay: Zionism and the Fate of the Jews	p. 258
Chapter 13	The Golden Age	p. 275
	The '80s: Revival	p. 275
	The '90s: Serenity	p. 278
	Cold War Nostalgia	p. 281
Chapter 14	The Age of Holy Terror	p. 285
	September 11, 2001	p. 285
	When Imagination Fails	p. 288
	"The Borders of Islam Are Bloody"	p. 290
	To War or Not to War?	p. 293
	The Surge, Denied	p. 296
	Who Lost Iraq?	p. 299
	From Freedom Agenda to Freedom Doctrine	p. 302
	Language and Leadership	p. 305
Chapter 15	The Age to Come	p. 309
	Hyperproliferation: Can We Survive It?	p. 309
	Death by Drone	p. 312
	No Hiding from History	p. 315
Part 4	Global	p. 319
Chapter 16	Three Essays on America and the World	p. 321
	The Unipolar Moment (1990)	p. 321
	Democratic Realism (2004)	p. 333
	Decline Is a Choice (2009)	p. 352
	Acknowledgments	p. 367
	Index	p. 370

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