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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.

A Classic Debate

By Matthew Yglesias
Jul 14 2007, 3:40 PM ET Comment

Thanks to the good offices of Rob Goodspeed I'm now a Late Night Shots member, and it really is hilarious. I'm reading through a thread on whether or not it's acceptable to go out in Adams-Morgan. Many of the early posts center on the question of whether or not it's a dangerous neighborhood. Then one poster chimes in:

With me (and I assume this is the case with others), the question is whether I would go to Adams Morgan and hang out with a bunch of thugs and poorly bred, unattractive girls, or go to Georgetown, where it is safe, people are more courteous and the bars are nicer.


Another counters:

I don’t know. I saw a lot of poorly bred, unattractive girls this pas Thursday in Georgetown.

If you want hot girls, go to the suburbs where they don’t have happy hour. My recently graduated brother is doing 45 min of cardio 4x a week - just because there’s nothing else to do when he gets out of work at 5:30.


I actually totally agree with this anti-AM sentiment, though mostly that's because the neighborhood is too LNS-ey for my taste. At any rate, I just hope these guys don't make it any further east than Adams-Morgan or else I might run into them somewhere.

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