Charles Krauthammer’s new column is about Hillary Clinton, primarily. (And Hillary Clinton in the primaries, as it happens.) About the controversial e-mails, he writes, “The issue has already damaged her seriously by highlighting once again her congenital inability to speak truthfully.”

This is a clear homage to the late William Safire, Krauthammer’s brother in “columny,” as Safire used to say. Safire began a January 1996 column, “Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our First Lady — a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation — is a congenital liar.”

Nicely done, Dr. K. And maybe Hillary could have a late-in-life conversion to honesty?