The Point of It All, A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors by Daniel Krauthammer -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Introduction by Daniel Krauthammer PART I: WHAT A PIECE OF WORK IS MAN

CHAPTER 1: LIFE WELL LIVED Reveries of a Newborn Father Irving Kristol: A Great Good Man Ronald Reagan: He Could See for Miles Thomas Jefferson: The Sublime Oxymoron Thank You, Isaiah Berlin John Paul II: The Power of Faith George Weidenfeld: Syrian Christians and the English Jew Meg Greenfield: My Editor, My Friend CHAPTER 2: CUSTOMS AND CULTURE Why I Love Australia Rampway to Heaven Junk Rights Genius, Insanity, Innocence Two Cromwells: Separate and Independent Realities Parenthesis to History The Cold War Memorials CHAPTER 3: CONTESTS Suffering a Relapse, and Loving It The Tyranny of Chess Revenge, American-Style Man vs. Computer: Still a Match The Greatness Gap Why Do They Even Play the Game? Jim Dickson’s Triumph CHAPTER 4: COSMOS In Sorrow and Glory We Find Our Common Humanity Front-Page Physics: Why the News From Beyond Is Beyond Us What Sputnik Launched Pluto and Us Space: The Visionaries Take Over Redeeming Columbia CHAPTER 5: THE DOCTOR IS IN A Doctor’s Duty Why Doctors Quit Sick, Tired and Not Taking It Anymore The Twilight of Psychotherapy They Die with Their Rights On CHAPTER 6: MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH Five Lives vs. One Principle Stem Cells: Mounting the Slippery Slope The Abortion Debate: Just Words The Price of Fetal Parts What to Do for Little Charlie Gard

PART II: MAN AND SOCIETY

CHAPTER 7: LOOK OUTWARD Three Pieces of Sage Advice CHAPTER 8: AGAINST THE GRAIN Apocalypse, with and without God When Modern Medicine Fails The Myth of “Settled Science” Thought Police on Patrol CHAPTER 9: THE TOO-EXAMINED LIFE Suicide ad Absurdum Holiday: Living on a Return Ticket Shakespeare, Ruined Illusions of Self-Love CHAPTER 10: OUT OF MANY, ONE Assimilation Nation The Tribalization of America Counting by Race Redskins and Reason Neither Ennobling nor Degrading On Lowering the Flag CHAPTER 11: CHURCH AND STATE Civil Religion—and No Religion Just Leave Christmas Alone Religion as Taste

PART III: POLITICS, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC

CHAPTER 12: THE TWO LAST TRIBES OF ISRAEL The Miracle, at 60 The Holocaust and Jewish Identity Demystifying Judaism How to Fight Academic Bigotry Do We Really Mean “Never Again”? CHAPTER 13: KEEPING THE WORLD AT BAY How to Deal with Countries Gone Mad The Iranian “Moderate” Middle East Peace and the Great Muslim Civil War The Bush Legacy Iraq, Abandoned The Climate Pact Swindle Russia Rising To Die for Estonia? Trump and the “Madman Theory” CHAPTER 14: DEMOCRACY AND ITS DISCONTENTS In Defense of Fanatics The Death Penalty and the Constitution Finally Getting It Right on Affirmative Action The Right-to-Work Dilemma Brexit: Sovereign Kingdom or Little England? Trump Derangement Syndrome: You Can’t Govern by Id Revolt of the Attorneys General American Democracy: Not So Decadent After All CHAPTER 15: ON LIBERTY Constitutions, Conservatism and the Genius of the Founders The Meaning of Human Rights

PART IV: COMPETING VISIONS: America’s Role and the Course of World History

CHAPTER 16: RELUCTANT COLOSSUS When to Intervene The Arrow of History Trump’s Foreign Policy Revolution CHAPTER 17: THE END OF “THE END OF HISTORY” After a Mere 25 Years, the Triumph of the West Is Over The Coming Disillusionment in Liberated Europe The Authoritarian Temptation

PART V: SPEAKING IN THE FIRST PERSON

CHAPTER 18: A LIFE WITHOUT REGRETS An Anniversary of Sorts Choosing a Life A Statement of Principle Beauty and Soul A Note to Readers Eulogy by Daniel Krauthammer

Acknowledgments About the Author About the Editor