Free Beacon Matthew Walther

Matthew Walther is associate editor of the Washington Free Beacon. He was previously assistant editor of the American Spectator. His work has also appeared in the Spectator of London, First Things, the Weekly Standard, National Review, the Daily Beast, and other publications. He lives with his wife, Lydia, and their two daughters in Alexandria, Virginia. His Twitter handle is @matthewwalther.


When Self-Compassion Becomes Self-Abuse

Feature: Inside the latest feel-good New Age social trend

Judy Collins

Matthew Walther's Favorite Song

Feature: Why Judy Collins's 'Wild Mountain Thyme' is the best thing ever put on wax

Shades of Life

Feature: The secret behind the enduring appeal of The Beatles

George Jones’s Gospel Records Are Better Than ‘Sweetheart of the Rodeo’

Feature: The Possum always knew he had to get right with the Lord

Carolanne Sills

The Two Best Early '70s Occult Lady Folk Singers

Feature: Why Judee Sill and Carolanne Pegg make me question my fear of witches

Escape From Washington

Feature: What I Saw at the Climate March

Six Pence None the Richer

Sixpence None the Richer are the Beatles of Christian Pop-Rock

Feature: Why there is no such thing as a guilty pleasure

Ian & Sylvia

The Best Thing Ever to Have Come Out of Canada

Feature: A valentine to Ian & Sylvia

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Forever Young Percy Bysshe Shelley

Review: Percy Bysshe Shelley 'Selected Poems and Prose', edited by Jack Donovan and Cian Duffy

How I Learned to Love '90s Country-Pop

Pop life: Trisha, Toby, and The Chicks were better than Archers of Loaf