Latest articles by Matthew Walther
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America's alien freakout
opinion This obsession with space is ridiculously adolescent. It is also vicious and inhumane.
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Confessions of a Star Wars nerd
feature Join me, Star Wars nerds. Let us bask in our hopelessly arcane knowledge.
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Pornography is incompatible with consent
opinion It is organized cruelty for profit
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The College Football Playoff is ruining college football
opinion Get rid of it
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The TSA is a pathetic failure
opinion Time to abolish it
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Disney is the worst
opinion Disney is a greedy and terrible company. We should all boycott it.
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The adolescent cult of the AR-15
opinion The bestselling gun in America is also an excuse to play dress up
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There's no such thing as 'terrorism'
opinion Are the motivations underlying the mowing down of random pedestrians any more coherent than the ones that led an antisocial lunatic dressed up as a Batman character to unload on a movie-theater audience?
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Why are you already celebrating Christmas?
opinion Put away your reindeer — Christmas is eight weeks away
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10 terrifying horror books you've never read
opinion Being scared is a lot of harmless fun
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The misery of being young in America today
opinion The kids aren't alright
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Dan Brown is a very bad writer
opinion Why is he still writing books? And why are we still reading them?
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Regulate the internet
opinion The internet is a big deal. It's time to treat it that way.
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Against sex
opinion Our obsession with sex is a real problem
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The sexual predators everyone still worships
opinion You've heard the confessions from the next Harvey Weinstein. You've probably even hummed them.
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'Europe' is meaningless
opinion Like modal jazz and Star Wars, Europe is one of those ideas that's been going steadily down-hill since its inception
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Against public apologies
opinion These pseudo-confessions, soaked in the language of therapy and addiction, offer nothing even approximating sincere contrition
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Ban Banned Books Week
opinion This annual festival of cloying liberal self-satisfaction is simply the worst
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Don't forget about Flint
opinion The Flint water crisis is far from over. Beyond the headlines, the horrors continue.
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Football is great
opinion And it's among America's greatest innovations
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The profound sadness of crystal therapy
opinion Pity the magic rock devotees
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The media's Pope Francis problem
opinion Oh, pother
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What disaster news does to us
opinion On the moral toll of watching a calamity unfold
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The Groundhog Day of North Korean sanctions
opinion It's never worked before. What makes anyone think it will work now?
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