Matthew Walther

National Correspondent

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.

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Opinion

Sympathy for Ashli Babbitt

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Opinion

The decline and fall of Donald Trump

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Opinion

The limits of LARPing

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Opinion

The Democrats' crucial victory in Georgia

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Opinion

McConnell stares down the barrel of Trump's gun

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Opinion

The return of press complacency

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Feature

On losing a hat

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Opinion

Trump is right about the Republican death wish

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Opinion

The best novels I read in 2020

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Opinion

The greatness of A Charlie Brown Christmas

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Opinion

Trump shows up too late to his presidency

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Opinion

The stimulus deal is the worst of both worlds

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Opinion

Why we need Beethoven

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Feature

The unrivaled John le Carré

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Feature

The worst argument against breaking up Facebook

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Opinion

Time to retire Person of the Year

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Opinion

Why Trump supporters won't accept election results

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Opinion

Give Americans another check

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Opinion

The reasonable case for a Trump self-pardon

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Opinion

Pope Francis' news of the millennium

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Opinion

The Donald goes down to Georgia

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Opinion

Trump's tweets are American literature

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Opinion

The invisible crisis in Ethiopia

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Opinion

How camp explains Trump

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Opinion

The joy of watching the Detroit Lions lose on Thanksgiving

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Opinion

Biden is giving the left nothing for their investment

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Opinion

The Earth is not a math problem

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Opinion

Trump and the audacity of hope

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Opinion

Trump is right about Afghanistan

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Opinion

America needs a real debt jubilee

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Opinion

Barack Obama, failed conservative

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Opinion

Democrats' COVID totemism

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Opinion

Trump's losing war with Fox News

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Analysis

4 major political consequences of Trump's coronavirus diagnosis

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Opinion

Looking under the hood of the 2020 election results

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Feature

Why Bush v. Gore is irrelevant in 2020