Matthew Walther

1 week ago | thelampmagazine.com | J. Vance |Mary Rogers |Peter Hitchens |Matthew Walther

I have just failed to preserve a beautiful tree from being felled. Worse, I have become complicit in its destruction. I may never be sure that I did the right thing. I hate the cutting down of trees, even though I know that it is sometimes necessary. Trees are the lovely works of God, still living in every city among the ugly works of man. These large friendly vegetables are not just plants, but stores of goodness, peace and calm. I once tried hugging one and got nothing out of it.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Matthew Walther

1 hour agoThere’s No Coming Back From Trump’s Tariff DisasterAmerica was the world’s economic anchor. Thanks to the president, it may never have that role again. Watching the wild lines of the S&P 500, U.S. Treasury bond yields, and various foreign markets is how I’ve spent most of the past week. This felt familiar; I’d spent much of 2017 doing the same, …Now‘Worse Than 1971’—U.S. Dollar Price ‘Collapse’ Predicted To Ignite $22 Trillion Bitcoin Challenge To Gold04/12 update below.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Matthew Walther

In a pamphlet published in 1711, Jonathan Swift lamented the "folly" of those who "mistake the echo of a London coffeehouse for the voice of the kingdom." Those informal salons were, he wrote, frequented by people whose wealth depended on their shares in the Bank of England or the East India Company or "some other stock." If the responses to the Trump administration's tariff policies have shown us anything, it is that, like most of the ills against which Swift railed, this unfortunate...

1 week ago | thelampmagazine.com | J. Vance |Peter Hitchens |Mary Rogers |Matthew Walther

I’m bad at games. I always have been. My competitive chess career ended in middle school, when I decided that spending a day of Swiss-system combat at a school library in the lugubrious suburbs of Baltimore was not worth it if I wasn’t going to place. My brother was more naturally gifted, as seemed to be the case in most of these sorts of things, but he was young and undisciplined, so he didn’t pursue it much longer than I did.

2 weeks ago | theamericanconservative.com | Matthew Walther

Economics Cold Breakfast in America From corn flakes to Legos, the consumer is on the business end of “economics.” Featured in the May/June 2025 issue Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Not long ago I found myself flipping through a biography of John Harvey Kellogg, the impresario of dry breakfast cereal. It was a very dull book.