Matthew Wolfson is a writer living in New York. He holds a BA from Pomona College and an MPhil in political thought and intellectual history from the University of Cambridge.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
On John le Carré’s A Most Wanted Man, from Novel to Film
Contributor Matthew Wolfson on John le Carré’s "A Most Wanted Man"...
Are American Politics Redeemable? Robert Gates, Hillary Clinton and Two Memoirs of Washington, DC
Two memoirs from Hillary Clinton and Robert Gates should make us wonder if politics are redeemable....
Tears, Fires and Evasions: The Sentimental Repackaging of George W. Bush
Any president can be packaged and rebranded. All it takes is a little insider journalism....
Aliens in the Homeland
Alienation and ambient anxiety in the surveillance state...
Staring Clear-Eyed at the Culture: Joan Didion and the Postwar Deluge
On her hunger for both the rainbow and the rainbow’s end....
What We’ve Lost and Gained: Aaron Sorkin’s Complex Nostalgia
'Newsroom' as jeremiad on the loss of a dominant public discourse...
The Last Company Town
Washington, DC’s profit-obsessed, personality-consumed culture is the last company town of the 21st century....
