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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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The Truth About Diamonds

By Matthew Yglesias

Jun 16 2007, 10:38 AM ET Comment



Via Jessica Valenti, I see that recently in Slate Meghan O'Rourke made the case against diamond engagement rings. That seems like as good an excuse as any to help the company out but reminding people that Edward Jay Epstein's classic 1982 article on the diamond trade is available for free on the Atlantic website. It's an absolutely brilliant article, and you just can't look at the diamond engagement ring concept the same after reading it.

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