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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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Blackburn on Truth

By Matthew Yglesias

Oct 23 2006, 9:56 AM ET Comment

Just last week, I was saying to myself "how come TNR doesn't publish Simon Blackwell anymore?" And -- bam! -- here's a Simon Blackburn article reviewing Harry Frankfurter's On Truth and defending a somewhat postmodernist take against the now-fashionable slanders of Frankfurter and his ilk right there in The New Republic. Blackburn's Ruling Passions defending a kinda sorta "moral relativism" (not a good term, but most people would probably understand the view he supports as relativism) and Essays in Quasia-Realism are two of my major philosophical touchstones.

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