Matthew Walther
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Editor @thelampmagazine . Contributing writer @nytopinion . Writing a biography of John Henry Newman for @yalepress .
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With apologies in advance for the anarthrous noun modifier, some big news
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Glenn Kessler's "fact check" of whether Tim Scott's grandfather *really* picked cotton is the most cringe inducing thing I have seen in an American newspaper in many years.
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That we could sit in our houses for more than year having wage slaves deliver meals, groceries, random consumer goods and watch Netflix while other wage slaves on the other side of the world continued to make these things *and* that all of this made us self-sacrificing heroes.
What are some of your favorite examples of "luxury beliefs"?
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"Whataboutism" is a really pernicious phrase, because what it means is "How dare anyone try to make a contextual argument or think through things proportionally or expect terms and standards to be consistent and non-equivocal depending upon whether circumstances are favorable!"
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Why are they in a hospital bed?
Chasten and I are beyond thankful for all the kind wishes since first sharing the news that we’re becoming parents. We are delighted to welcome Penelope Rose and Joseph August Buttigieg to our family.
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Using a real landline to talk to someone on another real landline is amazing. The clarity is something that wireless has never even approached. Why did everyone fall for this?
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Ah yes, Biden declaring victory is fine, Trump doing the same is "irresponsible," "inflammatory," various other increasingly horrifying adjectives.
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I find it absolutely crazy that there is not a single person with a meaningful platform in sports journalism who is willing to say that the Indians changing their name is bullshit
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Way too much of this sick shit among the younger "New Right" types.
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Sylvia Thérèse Walther was born just after midnight on May 29 at our home in Three Rivers, Michigan.
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The sublime moment in the American regime, for which the only analogues that come to mind are in Chinese history, is lowering your mask for the TSA person, a kind of syncretic act in which the rites of our twin overlapping pseudo-crises come together.
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You cheated on the LSAT Jeff, if you get mad at me for saying so it proves me right
Happy people don't obstruct justice. Trump's frustration at leaks and investigation are evidence of guilt, not innocence. But let's see the report . .
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The GOP should just pass the full text of Moby-Dick or something and say that they repealed Obamacare.
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The opioid commercial I just saw is urging potential users not to "back down" if their doctors tell them no.
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The "Conservatives are OBSESSED WITH AOC" meme is the dumbest thing in history. When milquetoast libs are declaring a quasi-literate gamer whose idea of socialism is everyone gets a pony their khaleesi, some people will in fact ask questions.
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You and David Duke, sister
I'm tired of watching brown men fall in love with white women onscreen
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fuck off
Analysis: Sri Lanka church bombings stoke far-right anger in the West
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What a painfully obtuse argument. Such forgiveness is the essence of the Christian religion. Indeed, the possibility of our salvation lies in the forgiveness of the All-Merciful Father whose own Divine Son was, ahem, murdered.
Imagine looking your kid in the eyes and telling him that if he’s ever murdered, you will swiftly forgive the killer, no questions asked, whether they’re sorry or not, and do so doubly fast if they’re black or brown
I believe in God; I don’t believe in this
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Might be good or bad, feature or bug of system, but if you don’t think a $100 fill-up leaves an indelible impression on voters, you’re making a lot of money.
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Ireland is such a joke. "Look at us, we're nice modern anticlerical progressives. Our prime minister has a quaint title in a made-up language invented by Yeats and Lady Gregory out of boredom. We kill babies and allow corporations to hoard their ill-gotten gains here."
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The suicide rate is the highest it's been in half a century
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Today John Henry Newman Walther, my esteemed three-year-old son, was expelled from preschool because his minder asked him not to open the door to the hallway and he said no and opened it anyway.
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They obtain this result by defining the right as "classical liberal economics," which has never been a huge part of the European right wing. This is what happens when 21-year-old babies who know how to make graphs but have never read a book do journalism
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Why is Nikki Haley, who said that she would "never" allow Medicaid to be expanded in her state, a "moderate Republican" now?
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John Henry Newman Walther was born just after midnight.
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I don't support the wall, but I do support Trump declaring a national emergency in order to let the issue get bogged down in the courts for years so we don't have to think about it
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Last night Americans elected three men who have recently been indicted, the author of pornographic works about Bigfoot, and a dead pimp.
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One of the demands in Flint in the great '36-7 strike was being able to talk at lunch. Beyond insane. Sometimes the world does get better.
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working-class woman: man it sure does suck I don't get any paid time off to spend with my baby or a little vacation
you, a genius economist: have you seen the GDP figures my good madam
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If you want to understand what it means for local government and local journalism to collapse, imagine your water looks like this for four days and there is no public notice about flushing, no one to answer the phone at city hall, rumors on social media, and nothing else
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I just asked Cecile Richards if the fact that abortion is a form of ritual sacrifice to Moloch means it is a religious liberty issue.
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"We just can't deal with his behavior!"
"He's three. I think you can probably figure it out. Isn't that what those education degrees are for?"
Anyway, we are celebrating with cupcakes.
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If Melania Trump had an Ed.D. and insisted upon being referred to as “Dr. Trump,” the same peoples feigning outrage would laugh her out of the room. And rightly so. This is a propaganda campaign by the Biden people, and all the usual suspects are playing along. Life is short.
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The absolute horror of being “insulting and patronizing” to politicians, oh my gosh
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Lord have mercy
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Really horrifying news from the Benedictines of Mary.
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Marianne is fundamentally a Wagnerian—she understands that the renunciation of love for power is the foundation of all corrupt social orders and that it is only by a corresponding renunciation of power for love that the old order can be destroyed in favor of the new.
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Remember when this was fake news and Carly Fiorina was a crank for bringing it up on television?
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I love how she says "parents" like it's the scariest fucking word in the English language
You know what we call people who practice the rhythm method?
Parents.
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This is the kind of obvious point that economists and their media cheerleaders will try to shout down with endless statistical verbiage but in many parts of the country it's true. Decline is real.
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QAnon is probably closer to baseline reality than the New York Times
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This is the (I guess former) Episcopal cathedral near where I live, or, as I like to think of it, Our Lady of Isengard.
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Man, these alleged Russian forgers continue to have an amazing grasp of suburban Catholicism in the 1980s
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Anyone who does what this guy did deserves a punch in the mouth. Children are not some sub-class of mutants whose right to appear in public spaces is contingent upon never behaving the way that children in fact sometimes do. They're people
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We don't actually
Catholics believe that individuals should be the sole arbiters of their moral decision making, following their consciences. This is why we, as Catholics, support public funding for abortion.
#RiseUp4Roe
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One year ago today our fourth child, Winifred Flosshilde Walther, was stillborn on my birthday. Four days later on Ash Wednesday she was buried in the diocesan cemetery here in Kalamazoo.
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From the subhead on down, there is barely a sentence in this piece that does not contain a painfully obvious error.
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I can confidently say that "stuff about inflation" is a rare but welcome attempt by journalists to engage with the reality of millions of ordinary Americans trying to figure out why gas and groceries cost vastly more than they did a year and a half ago.
all the stuff you see about inflation in the news is driven by rich people flipping their shit because their parasitic assets aren’t doing as well as they’d like and they’re scared that unemployment benefits + stimmy checks + 15 minimum wage + labor shortage is why ~jmt~
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Where all the late-night comedy bits on the totally cool congresswoman-elect who doesn't know the three branches of government and thinks the Pentagon, like, lost eleventy gazillion dollars
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Where are
@marcorubio
and
@HawleyMO
on Amazon unionization in Alabama? As far as I can tell this is a perfect opportunity for them to break meaningfully with GOP orthodoxy while helping workers in a red state—and to push back against a big tech billionaire.
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The worst kids in elementary school—the volunteer hall monitors, the ones who made the shush sign when you were lining up for recess—grew up to be allegedly important and interesting figures in American media
WaPo chief spox
@kriscoratti
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@daveweigel
's retweet of a sexist joke, which he has since apologized for: “Editors have made clear to the staff that the tweet was reprehensible and demeaning language or actions like that will not be tolerated.”
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You're actually kidding, right? You do realize that it is precisely because parents want their children to read things like Shakespeare and Milton that homeschooling is a thing. Like, who do you think has the time and energy for this?
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Pope: You watch-a thee Dune? Eeesa good movie. I watch-a with Spadaro, on-a Net-a-flix.
Biden: I tell ya, my friend Strom Thurmond, now he had a dune buggy.
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@NathanJRobinson
Then after pissing in a bottle he gets hauled into a metrics meeting. "According to the chip we implanted in your left knee you were .04 percent less efficient with urination performance in-transit (UPIT) this quarter. Can you account for this?"
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"reality czar" is a title brimming with dark and incredible energy
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Prudentially speaking the easiest argument to defend is for Catholics not to vote. A case can be made for the president but it can be rejected in good faith. Biden is unthinkable; there is no issue on which he is better and on many he is worse. This is all blinkeringly obvious.
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Shameful, xenophobic, a gutter decision made by gutter human beings. Even during the Cold War it was assumed by all decent and humane persons that music could and did transcend these conflicts
Valery Gergiev, the star Russian maestro and prominent supporter of President Vladimir Putin of Russia, was removed Tuesday from his post as chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic after he refused to denounce Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Do you kiss your picture of him before or after you put on your Harry Potter pajamas at night?
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When they take the mask off, it's as horrifying as you would expect
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"No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the
United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President." Reading a paper where some guys joke that the second comma means no one has been eligible since John Tyler
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I can't think of anything stupider or more patronizing than attempting to make medieval studies more "inclusive" by telling people they needn't bother learning the languages necessary for, uhh, medieval studies
3. We need to change how we teach. Decolonize your curricula. Change your language requirements. Incorporate an honest critical reading of your racist academic "grandparents" into the framing of your courses.
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The Cold War would've blown up in about five minutes if people whose brains were destroyed by social media and comic book movies had been in charge.
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I didn't want to believe that it would really happen. My wife was received into the Church at Old St. Mary's; we were married there, and our two children were baptized there by Fr. Harris.
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Today Sylvia Thérèse Walther was cleansed of original sin, initiated into the Christian religion, and made a co-heir in the kingdom of Heaven.
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By "banning" he means "removing from their store" and by "books" he means "manuals on how to sexually exploit women in impoverished countries."
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"So Trump is separating children."
"Like into little tiny pieces, to sell? Awesome!"
"No, just from their families."
"Oh, lame, I guess."
In our hearts and minds today: all of the fathers and parents who have been separated from their children at borders. Keep families together.
#FathersDay
art: Repeal Hyde Art Project
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"Bothsidesism" is also stupid. The premise is that it is somehow ridiculous to step outside partisan theatrics and the rest of the culture war nonsense in order to take a dispassionate panoramic view.
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I ask your prayers for Wesley Ryan Walther, my nephew and the first child of any of my siblings, who was born early this morning.
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Here we go again. And we act like it was some big surprise that virtually every idiot in the foreign policy establishment of the last two decades supported this ticket
Kamala Harris says America "will once again stand with civil society and pro-democracy partners in Syria and help advance a political settlement where the Syrian people have a voice.”
Time to re-arm the rebels because this went so great when Biden was VP.
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Frederick II, age 14: putting down the rebellious counts of Sicily
Innocent III, age 37 or 38: becomes pope
Me, age 28: more or less consistently taking the garbage can out to the road
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Imagine some efficiency-obsessed lunatic doing bar-napkin math & convincing himself he could make an extra buck by keeping everyone silent.
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Two years ago today Winifred Flosshilde Walther was stillborn on my birthday and buried four days later on Ash Wednesday.
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This is not a parody account.
BREAKING: A large Florida landlord announces that he will begin requiring all new and existing tenants to provide proof of COVID vaccination, saying, “You don't want to get vaccinated? You have to move, and if you don't, we will evict you.” RT IF YOU SUPPORT THE LANDLORD’S MOVE!
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I wrote about being an unexpected pregnancy (and about stillbirth); best part is the photos
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The funny thing is that he accidentally hits the mark—the father who can forgive his son's murderers does indeed "signal"—or rather model—virtues most of us can scarcely imagine attaining.
I would rather be “obtuse” than a bad father who cares more about virtue signaling than justice and uses liberalized Christianity to justify it as righteousness.
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People who worry about evil robots taking over the world should consider the fact that we already let algorithms decide who gets housing.
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Here is the governor of Virginia discussing murder openly
VA gov on abortion this morning:
“If a mother is in labor...the infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians & mother"
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Whose genius idea was it to make a wireless mouse that charges like this, making it unusable for a few hours when the battery gets low?
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You can call my friend Michael a hack and a sellout and whatever you want as soon as you decide which of the 17 different mutually exclusive positions ranging from "Trump is uniquely evil because he suggested raising taxes once. Vote Kasich!" to "STOP THE STEAL" is actually yours
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Who wants to tell them that the Church "opposes" sin, yet (my apologies for not having the latest Pew Data here) roughly 99.999999999999999999999999999999999999 percent of Catholics have engaged sin at some point in their lives?
The Catholic hierarchy opposes all forms of artificial contraception, yet 98% of Catholics in the United States have used some form of contraception at some point in their lives.
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Two things that can't be said often enough:
1) The two-income trap can in fact be avoided and many families would save money (not to mention other benefits).
2) Childbirth does not have to cost $10,000 out of pocket.
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This guy would have sold priests to Elizabeth's torturers too
Day after Rome makes clear Tridentine Mass should not be offered on a parish schedule as an alternative to the reformed, universal Mass, the parish priest of Ledbury, also
@latinmassuk
chaplain, defiantly advertises extra Tridentine liturgies.
#TraditionisCustodes
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What "social conservatism" looks like when religion has receded from the horizon and most of the battles are lost
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This is my favorite thing, where the libs flit wildly back and forth between Tea Party LARPing about "our sacred Constitution" and denying basic principles like the right of accused persons to receive counsel regardless of ability to pay
*Larry Brock, the Texas man seen with zip-tie handcuffs on the Senate floor, makes 1st court appearance after his arrest.
*He provided financial documents to secure a public defender.
*So U.S. taxpayers will fund his defense for attacking the U.S.
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To all of you who got bullshit degrees when you were over the age of 50 out of boredom, I’m so sorry for your pain. All the work of writing a fake dissertation is so valid and I am so proud of you. How dare an octogenarian Jewish essayist punch down at the wife of a president!
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