Matthew Walther
Matthew Walther is a national correspondent at The Week. His work has also appeared in First Things, The Spectator of London, The Catholic Herald, National Review, and other publications. He is currently writing a biography of the Rev. Montague Summers. He is also a Robert Novak Journalism Fellow.
Latest articles by Matthew Walther
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Biden's opportunity in Ethiopia
opinion The African country is experiencing a humanitarian crisis. The new president should address it.
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Joe Biden's inaugural address was painfully normal
opinion The speech's reception said more about its audience than its content
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Why Biden's bible is so big
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Trump's fascinating and bizarre final pardons
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The country Joe Biden is inheriting
opinion The dawning of the age of Aquarius it is not
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What the Constitution really says about removal from office
opinion Is a post-presidential impeachment trial valid? Can the Senate still bar Trump from future office?
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Where do riots come from?
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Impeachment season is just beginning
opinion On the cynical nature of Trump's second impeachment
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Slashing big tech's Gordian Knot
opinion How to understand the deplatforming of Donald Trump
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Impeachment and America's cult of punishment
opinion What Americans want most out of politics
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Sympathy for Ashli Babbitt
opinion What we know about the 35-year-old Air Force veteran who was killed at the Capitol
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The decline and fall of Donald Trump
opinion The last days of the Trump presidency aren't marked by tyranny so much as exhaustion
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The limits of LARPing
opinion America's play-acting of civil war briefly turns real
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The Democrats' crucial victory in Georgia
opinion Warnock's Senate win alone has enormous consequences for the incoming Biden administration
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McConnell stares down the barrel of Trump's gun
opinion Who will be left standing in Georgia?
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The return of press complacency
opinion Do journalists know how ridiculous they sound?
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On losing a hat
feature Why do we become so attached to seemingly insignificant physical objects? And what happens to them when they're lost?
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Trump is right about the Republican death wish
opinion There's no other explanation for their resistance to Trump's $2,000 checks
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The best novels I read in 2020
opinion Who said they had to be new?
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The greatness of A Charlie Brown Christmas
opinion It is one of America's greatest pieces of popular religious art
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Trump shows up too late to his presidency
opinion Trump's stimulus demand demonstrates what he should have been doing all along
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The stimulus deal is the worst of both worlds
opinion This is everything wrong with bipartisanship
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Why we need Beethoven
opinion On the composer's relevance 250 years after his birth
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The unrivaled John le Carré
feature How the spy novelist changed English literature
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