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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.

The Irony

By Matthew Yglesias
Jun 6 2007, 12:52 PM ET Comment

A sage correspondent notes that the WSJ's coverage of letters in support of Scooter Libby includes this:

Leon Wieseltier, literary editor of the New Republic, described himself as "the kind of liberal whom many neoconservatives like to despise." In an interview, he said Mr. Libby had been a friend ever since he handled a legal problem for the editor in the 1980s. "He was amazingly kind and diligent" then, Mr. Wieseltier said. He added that he didn't realize the letter had been made public.


Because of neoconservatives' well-known dislike of the sort of extremely hawkish liberals whose primary political interest is foreign policy and pro-Israel activism and who write letters urging leniency for neoconservative criminals?

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