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.


Kemp Forum

A Day Without Donald Trump

Feature: Live from the Kemp Foundation Forum

Among the Believers

Feature: A lone Free Beacon correspondent learns how to become a Democratic woman leader and attends a Hillary house party

A Sacrificial Goat in Every Pot

Feature: The enigma of Florida Senate candidate Augustus Sol Invictus

Linc, We Hardly Knew Ye

My brief stint on the Free Beacon’s Lincoln Chafee beat

Hillary Clinton, a Socialist, and Three No Names Walk Into a Casino

Feature: What I saw at the first Democratic debate

Wallace Stevens Wrote a Handful of Beautiful Poems and a Lot of Tosh

Review: Wallace Stevens, ‘The Collected Poems: The Corrected Edition’

GOP 2016 Debate

I Can’t Believe I Watched the Whole Thing

Feature: What I saw at CNN’s Reagan Library Debate

Spotless Pearls

Review: Ad Putter and Myra Stokes (editors), ‘The Works of the Gawain Poet: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Patience, Cleanness’

Dryads and Hamadryads

Review: Hugh Trevor-Roper, ‘The Wartime Journals’

Barbara Bush, 1925-2018

Remembering the Silver Fox