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Matthew Yglesias is a fellow at the Center for American Progress. His first book, with the working title Heads in the Sand: Iraq and the Strange Death of Liberal Internationalism, scheduled to be published next spring by John Wiley and co., deals with the Democratic Party's struggle to find a post-9/11 foreign policy, focusing primarily on the rise and (hopefully) fall of the liberal hawk movement.

Previously, he was a staff writer at The American Prospect and an Associate Editor at TPM Media, where he contributed to the group blogs Tapped and TPMCafe. His main blog, now at The Atlantic, has existed in various forms since the dark ages of the blogosphere in January 2002.

His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Slate, The New Republic, and The Washington Monthly, and he is a regular on BloggingHeads.tv and makes the occasional radio or television appearance.

Desperately out of touch with the American mainstream, Yglesias was born and raised in Manhattan and studied philosophy at Harvard where he was editor in chief of The Harvard Independent, a campus alternative weekly.

His latest writings can be found on the Matthew Yglesias blog.

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A Long Time Ago

By Matthew Yglesias

Oct 3 2006, 9:50 AM ET Comment

Tonight is the season premiere of Veronica Mars on the merger-born new CW network. It's not the best show on television, but it's pretty darn close. It's also, by most accounts, at imminent risk of being canceled. The network only ordered half a season, so if ratings for these early episodes don't show improvement, it'll almost certainly get the ax. The good news is that it's considerably more accessible that, say, The Wire and I'm fairly certain a person could just watch and enjoy tonight's episode without fully understanding the backstory. I myself just started watching it in the middle of season two before backtracking on DVD to the beginning of season one.

Nominally, the show's about Veronica Mars, teen detective, and her father, a former sherrif now working as a private eye. More deeply, though, it's about the class struggle in America -- one of the few elements of our popular culture that really deals with class per se.

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