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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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'96 Bulls

By Matthew Yglesias

Jun 16 2007, 10:24 AM ET Comment

Notwithstanding anything I may have said previously the key thing to know about historical comparisons and the NBA is that you can't listen to Celtics fans on the subject of the 1996 Chicago Bulls. Simmons asks, "who's guarding Shaq on that team? Who's guarding McHale? Who's guarding Kareem? Shawn Kemp destroyed them in the Finals, what do you think those guys would have done?"

Ah, yes. Imagine if the 1996 Bulls had had to face off against Shaquille O'Neal. What would have happened then? Why, it might have looked a little something like the 1996 Eastern Conference Finals in which the Bulls played an Orlando Magic team led by the young Shaq. And in the second round, the Bulls played Patrick Ewing and the Knicks. And in the first round, they played Alonzo Mourning and the Heat. And, yes, Kareem-at-his-prime was better than those guys but it's hardly as if the Bulls only won games because they never faced a quality big man.

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