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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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A Touch of Swarth

By Matthew Yglesias

Jul 8 2007, 12:26 PM ET Comment

With all due respect, I think Andrew actually missed the worst part of Michael Fumento's complaints about Hollywood's alleged "war against anti-terrorism," namely the part where Fumento gets upset that in Live Free or Die Hard "one of the few good guys in the movie, the head of the FBI team that aids our hero John McCain, looks decidedly Arabic."

That's right. Portraying the head of an FBI team as aiding the hero of an action movie is now un-American if the team head in question "looks . . . Arabic." I suppose he was also upset about the friendly Arab boy in Transformers who helped the Special Operations guys find a phone -- I mean, a positive portrayal of an Arab character's got to be even worse than a positive portrayal of a merely Arabic looking individual, right?

UPDATE: Spencer suggests Fumento may want to read this.

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