I mourn the loss of Charles Krauthammer. I was from a young age a great admirer of the singular wisdom and style of his columns. He took a stand. I met him by chance, at the Supreme Court of Israel, and my hero proved magnanimous, friendly and kind. RIP. nytimes.com/2018/06/15/opi…
For me, as an aspiring writer on politics, fellow Montrealer and McGill graduate Dr. Charles Krauthammer was the ultimate role model I could look up to. (Below: Krauthammer elected Editor in Chief of Mcgill Daily, Sept. 25, 1969. "He has no journalistic experience whatever.") 
“I had not the faintest idea or expectation of becoming a writer... My first published article was a short, pompous editorial in the McGill Daily titled 'End of the Monolith.' I got to write the equally pompous headline because I happened to be my own editor.”
"It was a month into my senior year at McGill and my first day on the job as editor in chief. A week earlier, the student council had fired the previous editor on the grounds that the paper’s mindless, humorless Maoism had rendered it unreadable."
"(Yes, Maoism—Stalinism being too moderate and lacking in romance. This was, after all, the ’60s.) A search was launched for someone not loony-left. The roulette wheel spun my way."
"By today’s standards, I would have been considered a centrist, but on a 1969
campus that was considered a fairly exotic, somewhat reactionary political orientation."
campus that was considered a fairly exotic, somewhat reactionary political orientation."
“So I decided to issue a manifesto clarifying the new management’s creed. It was simple. The paper was now open to all points of view. 'The Daily is under the present editorship because it is committed to publish a pluralist paper, I wrote.'”
“Not only would 'dissenting and critical analyses be actively solicited,' but henceforth newsworthiness would be determined by no single ideological standard.”
