Charles Krauthammer, the famed conservative commentator, said Friday that he is dying from cancer and has weeks left to live. Krauthammer was born on March 13, 1950, in New York City . [4] His father was from Ukraine and his mother from Belgium . His brother, Marcel, was four years older. The family spoke French in the home. When he was 5, the Krauthammers moved to Montreal . Through the school year they resided in Montreal but spent the summers in Long Beach, New York . [6] [7] Both parents were Orthodox Jews , and he and his brother were educated at a Hebrew school. He attended McGill University in Montreal, graduating in 1970 with First Class Honours in both economics and political science . [8] At the time, McGill University was a hotbed of radical sentiment, something that Krauthammer says influenced his dislike of political extremism. "I became very acutely aware of the dangers, the hypocrisies, and sort of the extremism of the political extremes. And it clean...
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