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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.

Sowell's Coup

By Matthew Yglesias
May 2 2007, 12:24 AM ET Comment

This is interesting. Utterly without further context or elaboration, Thomas Sowell writes:

When I see the worsening degeneracy in our politicians, our media, our educators, and our intelligentsia, I can’t help wondering if the day may yet come when the only thing that can save this country is a military coup.


I could feign outrage, but I've got to admit that, I, too, have had this thought from time to time especially during moments (see, e.g., 2005) when my political preferences weren't faring well (I never said "decadence," though, it seems to me that only real extremists worry about decadence). That said, even though I write a ton of words every day, I've always had the good sense to not actually write it because even bloggers know that you shouldn't publish every random crazy thought that pops into your head. What was Sowell thinking? More to the point, how is it that nobody at Creator's Syndicate or National Review Online stopped this from going to press?

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