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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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Reseed?

By Matthew Yglesias

Jun 14 2007, 4:03 PM ET Comment

All this talk of reseeding the playoffs thanks to the West's superiority seems a bit premature to me. Let's review some history:

1996 Finals winner: Chicago (East)
1997 Finals winner: Chicago (East)
1998 Finals winner: Chicago (East)
1999 Finals winner: San Antonio (West)
2000 Finals winner: Los Angeles (West)
2001 Finals winner: Los Angeles (West)
2002 Finals winner: Los Angeles (West)
2003 Finals winner: San Antonio (West)
2004 Finals winner: Detriot (East)
2005 Finals winner: San Antonio (West)
2006 Finals winner: Miami (East)


There's nothing about the present day that seems unusually imbalanced. Indeed strictly in terms of the finals the current era seems unusually balanced, rather than the reverse. I'm not dogmatically opposed to shaking things up, but the system doesn't seem especially broken.

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