Latest articles by Matthew Walther
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Aretha Franklin was power
feature Remembering the Queen of Soul
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The 10 best tallboys $2 can buy
opinion It's hot out. Drink a beer — a 24 oz. beer.
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Let's ban catcalling
opinion France has banned catcalling. Why can't America?
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The Evelyn Waugh fanatics
opinion Why the author still has one of the most devoted followings in modern literature
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Why Trump lashed out at Iran
opinion Hawks will give him credit for being tough — and all he had to do was figure out how to enable caps lock on the Twitter app for iPhone
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The Catholic Church is a cesspool
opinion More than a decade and a half after the septic holding tank was overturned in Boston, the unfathomable noxious waste of sexual abuse by Catholic priests in this country is still seeping out in fetid drips
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Google is not an American company
opinion It is nothing and nowhere and endless — and frankly, un-American
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Why do Democrats want another Cold War?
opinion Nothing good will come of this
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Children make noise. Get over it.
opinion Let kids be loud
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The mundane badness of Trump and Putin
opinion There is no Trump-Putin supervillain scandal. Here on Earth, bad people are bad in humbler, less exciting ways.
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Trump is right about NATO
opinion What good is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, anyway?
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The quiet destruction of the American teenager
opinion Teenage girls are harming themselves at record rates. Shame on all of us.
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American wasteland
opinion How we became slaves to a mindless, wasteful, ugly ideal of convenience
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What Catholics believe
feature It remains a salutary exercise for Catholics to declare what they believe. I will attempt to provide a sketch.
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Ancient history belongs in schools
opinion It is impossible to teach American students all of world history. We should try anyway.
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Go fishing
feature On the magic of being in or near water with a long stick attached to some kind of cord
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Star Wars is not about sex
opinion R2-D2 is not erotic, and Lando Calrissian is not "pansexual"
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How America normalized the murder of schoolchildren
opinion Don't call them "mass shootings." They are unfathomably more monstrous and devastating than that impersonal, quasi-industrial language suggests.
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Why are conservatives forcing mothers from their kids?
opinion This is what work requirements mean
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In praise of Brooks Brothers
opinion No matter who you are or what you look like, if you wear a Brooks shirt in the right size, you will make a good impression
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The tyranny of optimization
opinion Not everything in life needs to be "optimized"
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Sorry, nerds: Video games are not a sport
The Explainer Yes, there's a difference between FIFA and FIFA
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The death industry
opinion Why can't more of us find it in our hearts to look after our parents and grandparents in our own homes, and spare them from those who profit off death and decay?
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Artificial intelligence is silly
opinion On Silicon Valley's ludicrous Terminator scenario
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