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Why Charles Krauthammer Matters | National Review
Matthew Continetti     April 4, 2019 11:10 AM



Not just for what he thought, but for how

Charles Krauthammer, who died last June at the age of 68, was the most important political columnist of the post–Cold War era. In fact, he gave that era its name. In an essay for Foreign Affairs published in its winter 1990/1991 issue, Krauthammer pronounced the dawn of a unipolar moment, when American political, economic, military, and cultural power went unchallenged. In subsequent essays and articles, he articulated a foreign policy of democratic realism by which the United States might prolong the unipolar moment as it pursued the ambitious and controversial goal of what he called “universal dominion.”

Yet Krauthammer was also among the first to suggest that the unipolar moment may be drawing to a close. By 2008, the wars in the Middle East had gone badly, Russia under Vladimir Putin had invaded the former Soviet republic of Georgia, and the global financial crisis and Great Recession had undermined confidence in American leadership. In his essays, speeches, and appearances on Special Report with Bret Baier, Krauthammer gave voice to the fears of conservatives over what an Obama presidency might bring. The writing of Charles Krauthammer defined a historical epoch.

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