Latest articles by Matthew Walther
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The Chauvin verdict should be celebrated
opinion The jurors, like the witnesses in the trial, told the truth and shamed the devil
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An eyewitness account of atrocities in Tigray
feature "I had never heard of hyenas eating dead people, so many dead that you couldn't bury them."
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How to read Proust
feature A guide to getting through Remembrance of Things Past
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The MC Hammer school of philosophy
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How the Super Bowl became 'hero ball'
feature The genius of football is that it is not a mere athletic competition, but a bizarre amalgamation of tag, rugby, Stratego, and military history
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Weird and not so weird ways to save money
opinion Go ahead, buy the whole pig
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The joy of a long Christmas
feature Why do Americans insist on ending the festive season so quickly?
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The transcendent Hank Aaron
feature Records alone don't do his incredible life justice
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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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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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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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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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Pope Francis' news of the millennium
opinion Why the Eastern Orthodox Church really might just reconcile with Rome
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The invisible crisis in Ethiopia
opinion More than a million people have been displaced almost overnight. Does anyone in the U.S. realize it?
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The joy of watching the Detroit Lions lose on Thanksgiving
opinion Their ritual humiliation is arguably the single most venerable Thanksgiving tradition
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Trump signals defeat
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Why Trump defied expectations in Florida
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Men, this should be so easy
opinion How could anyone defend Jeffrey Toobin?
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America's shy drinkers
feature Why are people increasingly ashamed of their alcohol consumption?
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The dehumanizing mistreatment of poor women in America
opinion Why reports of forced hysterectomies at an ICE detention center are sadly unsurprising
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Life is worth living
The Explainer What's driving America's rising suicide rate?
The Explainer
