Latest articles by Matthew Walther
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The Chauvin verdict should be celebratedopinion 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 Tigrayfeature "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 Proustfeature A guide to getting through Remembrance of Things Past
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The MC Hammer school of philosophySpeed Read
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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 moneyopinion Go ahead, buy the whole pig
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The joy of a long Christmasfeature Why do Americans insist on ending the festive season so quickly?
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The transcendent Hank Aaronfeature Records alone don't do his incredible life justice
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Why Biden's bible is so bigSpeed Read
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Trump's fascinating and bizarre final pardonsfeature
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On losing a hatfeature 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 2020opinion Who said they had to be new?
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The greatness of A Charlie Brown Christmasopinion It is one of America's greatest pieces of popular religious art
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Why we need Beethovenopinion On the composer's relevance 250 years after his birth
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The unrivaled John le Carréfeature How the spy novelist changed English literature
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Pope Francis' news of the millenniumopinion Why the Eastern Orthodox Church really might just reconcile with Rome
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The invisible crisis in Ethiopiaopinion 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 Thanksgivingopinion Their ritual humiliation is arguably the single most venerable Thanksgiving tradition
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Trump signals defeatfeature
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Why Trump defied expectations in Floridafeature
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Men, this should be so easyopinion How could anyone defend Jeffrey Toobin?
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America's shy drinkersfeature Why are people increasingly ashamed of their alcohol consumption?
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The dehumanizing mistreatment of poor women in Americaopinion Why reports of forced hysterectomies at an ICE detention center are sadly unsurprising
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Life is worth livingThe Explainer What's driving America's rising suicide rate?
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