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Matthew Yglesias - Matthew Yglesias is a fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
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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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Richard Rorty

By Matthew Yglesias

Jun 9 2007, 6:36 PM ET Comment

Philosopher Richard Rorty has died (via Kieran Healy). I can't remember how it is I came to be reading a copy of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. Certainly, it wasn't assigned for any of the classes I took. However it came to be, I was sufficiently influenced by Rorty's thinking to decide that even though I really enjoyed taking philosophy classes, I didn't really think "doing philosophy" was a worthwhile activity.

To people who've never studied philosophy, the book would probably seem pointless, but Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity is pitched at a generalist audience and is also excellent.

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