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.


The New Trump Hotel
Is Decadent and Depraved

Feature: What I saw at Donald Trump's ribbon cutting ceremony

Cecile Richards in the spin room

Cecile Richards Won't Say Whether Ritual Sacrifice Is a Religious Freedom Issue

Feature: And other kernels from the spin room at the third debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton

Chris Wallace

How Chris Wallace Won the Final Presidential Debate

Feature: What I saw at the Las Vegas debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump

Lena Dunham in Virginia

The Time Matthew Walther Had a Bad Trip After Lena Dunham Told Him She Liked His T-Shirt

Feature: Girls, hallucinations, the Blessed Virgin, a lot of alcohol, Peter Gabriel, and an Uber driver named Mohammed

Spin Room

Confessions of a Spin Room Amateur

Feature: How I learned to stop worrying and let the Trump campaign lie to me

St. Louis debate

Matthew Walther’s St. Louis Debate Diary

Feature: A stranger in the strange land of Washington University in St. Louis

Matthew Walther’s Aleppo Moment

Feature: What I Saw at the ‘Let Gary Debate!’ Rally

Trump vs. Clinton, Round One

Feature: What I saw at the first presidential debate