
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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'Obamagate' and the end of scandalopinion Why do we insist on appending this meaningless suffix to everything?
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Jeff Bezos and the unreality of moneyopinion The utter absurdity of the prospective world's first trillionaire
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The reality of modern slaveryopinion It's not all that different from old slavery
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Coronavirus has exposed all of America's ancient evilsopinion We are not discovering some unguessed consequences of the spread of a novel virus
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1 of these 7 women will likely be Joe Biden's running mateopinion Ranking the serious contenders from least to most likely
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The dark decade aheadopinion We face years of immiseration on a scale unimaginable to at least three generations
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Facebook's 'Supreme Court' won't solve anythingopinion They have been given an impossible task
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Did we just witness one of the nuttiest foreign policy blunders in American history?opinion Operation Gideon was at odds with both federal social distancing guidelines and current recommendations from the World Health Organization. It was also absolutely insane.
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The menace of coronavirus snitchesopinion Seeing your neighbor as a vector of disease rather than a fellow human being isn't helping anyone
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The reality of American inflationopinion How cheap junk obscures the truth about our declining purchasing power
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5 questions about how coronavirus will affect the 2020 electionopinion What the coronavirus pandemic means for the suddenly secondary presidential contest
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The nasty rhetorical trick of 'her truth'opinion On Joe Biden, Tara Reade, and the nefarious possessive
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Turkmenistan bans use of the word 'coronavirus' ahead of World Health Organization visitSpeed Read
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Bleachgate is the archetype of a Trump media cycleopinion Do CNN reporters really believe that the average Trump supporter is someone who needs to be told not to drink bleach?
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The great Clearblue shortage of 2020feature A sudden shortage in natural family planning supplies has thousands of American Catholics scrambling for solutions
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The unemployment crisis should not be a state issueopinion This is no time for federalism
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Philip Rivers is the last gunslingerfeature We can be sure the 2020 NFL Draft won't produce anyone like him
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Gretchen Whitmer's pandemic competence is a mirageopinion She's a liberal media darling, but what has she actually done?
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The health vs. wealth electionfeature The new battle lines of the 2020 election look awfully familiar, don't they?
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Get rid of handshakes — and not just for public health reasonsopinion I'm with Dr. Fauci on this one
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Why can't you go fishing during the pandemic?opinion Coronavirus enforcers have gone too far
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Empty churches and the empty tombfeature
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Biden is the weakest major party nominee in recent history — but that might be the pointopinion No one will believe that a once-in-a-generation political talent has been wasted if Trump wins a second term, which is still the most likely outcome in November
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The Wisconsin ghost electionopinion Many observers are horrified, but should we really be surprised?
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