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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Oregon legalizes self-destruction
opinion Decriminalizing drugs won't make them any less harmful
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Incompetence and hysteria are the American way
opinion This election dysfunction is just modern America
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Trump hands the media the next Russiagate
opinion Here comes the coup narrative
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Biden jumps the gun
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Why Trump defied expectations in Florida
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Why I am a political atheist
opinion If I vote, it is in the hope of taking part in a sacrament, one whose only outward sign of a dubious and invisible grace is a sticker
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Who will win the Senate?
opinion These races will decide control of the upper chamber
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How the liberal consensus exercises its power
opinion Glenn Greenwald's letter of resignation from The Intercept wasn't remotely surprising
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What a second Trump term would look like
opinion What might he do with another four years?
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Why Trump's re-election still seems likely
opinion He's not going anywhere
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Middle-finger voting is driving the entire country mad
opinion How politics became schadenfreude
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Republicans are thrilled to lose
opinion Abandon Trump? The GOP is ready and willing to be out of power.
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Who won the final 2020 debate? Call it a draw.
The Explainer It was surprisingly tame, sober, and lacking a clear winner
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Men, this should be so easy
opinion How could anyone defend Jeffrey Toobin?
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How the media created Teflon Joe
opinion Everything is fair game, until it isn't
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Why QAnon will outlive Trump
opinion The president is only incidental to what the conspiracy theory offers its followers
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What happened to third party candidates?
The Explainer Are the grand, weird third party experiments dead? Or is the media just not paying attention?
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The town halls weren't a debate — but Trump still won
opinion The president finally did what he should have done all along
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Twitter's election meddling
opinion What were they thinking?
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Will there be another Trump surprise in Michigan?
opinion Why Republican Senate candidate John James is polling ahead of the president
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The Democrats' desperate SCOTUS scaremongering
opinion They're trying — and failing — to paint Amy Coney Barrett as a monster
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Why would someone plan to abduct the governor of Michigan?
opinion The Whitmer plot and the history of Michigan militia movements
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Mike Pence was the unlikely winner of the vice presidential debate
opinion Sometimes boring wins
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The myth of Mike Pence's appeal
opinion He's nothing without Donald Trump
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