Latest articles by Matthew Walther
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The rootin' tootin' life of T. Boone Pickens
feature The billionaire, who died Wednesday at 91, was one of those extraordinary figures who seems to exemplify the strangeness of the American character
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The hope and futility of the Hong Kong protest movement
feature Is this what democracy looks like?
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The rise of mocktails and the decline of human civilization
feature What are bars even for nowadays?
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Why Brexit destroyed Parliament
opinion And why the U.K. is still unlikely to actually leave Europe
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The joy and promise of Burger King's Impossible Whopper
feature A reason for optimism at the drive-through
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Andrew Luck's retirement doesn't tell us anything about the state of football
feature Take a breath, everybody
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Jay-Z's cardboard corporate activism
opinion Why the rapper's NFL partnership shouldn't be a surprise to anyone
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China will do whatever it wants in Hong Kong
opinion Here's why the West won't lift a finger to help
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There is no easy solution to the college football transfer mess
feature This is just how the game works now
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The sobering global reality of the immigration crisis
opinion The world's leaders have failed to meet the greatest challenge of our time
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Britain's inexplicable decision to pick a fight with Iran
opinion Why are the British seizing foreign vessels in the dog days of a failed government, when they have a prime minister in name only?
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The sublime Romanticism of the moon landing
opinion Alone, alone, all, all alone on a sea of stars
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America must save its orchestras
opinion Storied orchestras across the country are going under — and we won't realize what we've lost until it's too late
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How Michael Brendan Dougherty subverted the Irish misery memoir
feature A conversation with the conservative columnist and author of My Father Left Me Ireland
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9 things parents never want to hear from strangers again
feature Keep your comments to yourself, please and thank you
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Why Cameo is the scariest thing on the internet
feature This is life in 2019
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Is diplomacy too boring for the Trump White House?
opinion Why Trump's foreign policy agenda keeps running into trouble
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Who needs Game of Thrones when we have Byzantine history?
feature It is a story of "the intrigues of priests, eunuchs, women, of poisonings, of conspiracies, of uniform ingratitude, of perpetual fratricides"
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What Notre Dame means to Catholics
opinion For us, it was lost long ago
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In praise of teachers
opinion They open our eyes to the world
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Brexit was designed to fail
opinion It was never meant to succeed
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The torture chambers down the street
opinion On the plight of children placed in so-called 'seclusion' in public schools
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What does climate change mean for having children? Nothing.
opinion To live in a world where it's half a degree warmer or where the oceans are filled with garbage and the rivers are overrun with toxic plastic is better than never being born
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The strange death of easy listening
opinion Whatever happened to enjoyable music for adults?
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