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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 Poet's Life"

By Matthew Yglesias

Jun 15 2007, 4:54 PM ET Comment

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A colleague alerts me to the fact that Tim Armstrong of Rancid has a solo album, "A Poet's Life." MP3s of three tracks "Wake Up", "Hold On", and "Oh No" are available for free on the Epitaph website. It's all sounding disappointingly ska-ish. Spencer Ackerman, who I guess isn't allowed to write about this stuff on TPM Muckraker, remarks "look dude you're not prince buster, write me some fucking punk songs" which reminds me that I don't quite recall what the upshot was of the conversation Andrew, Ross, and I had with James Bennett about the appropriate use of the word "fuck" on an Atlantic-branded blog.

Spencer also offers the view that Rancid's Indestructible is "way underrated" but I think Life Won't Wait is the underrated Rancid album.

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