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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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Axis of Bad Pop

By Matthew Yglesias

Nov 4 2006, 3:03 PM ET Comment



Josh Kurlantzick's September article warning about the emergence of a new Russia/Venezuela/Iran axis of oil-producing states struck me as a bit implausibly alarmist at the time. I mean, sure, countries have interests, which means they sometimes have interests in common with other countries, so they work together now and again. But the three names states seemed to me to lack any kind of underlying ideological program that would really make this worrisome. Or so I thought.

Susan alerts me to this music video for "Vostochnaya Skazka" an international super hit from Russian girl group Blestyashie in which they collaborate with Iranian pop sensation Arash. The resulting song is bad. Very bad. Troublingly bad. It's especially disturbing that Arash appears to live in Sweden, which has traditionally been the Anglosphere's main ally in the quest to make the world safe for non-awful popular music. If they defect to the Eurasian Crap Pop Bloc, all may be lost.

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