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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 Krauthammer Go-Round

By Matthew Yglesias

Aug 10 2007, 9:10 AM ET Comment

Brian Beutler points out that TNR senior editor Charles Krauthammer is now accusing this ferociously pro-war magazine at which he got his start and which still now and again provides him with a platform from which to put forward his trademark combination of inaccurate smears and normatively repugnant views of being driven by a desire to find content that "fits perfectly into the most virulent narrative of the antiwar left."

At any rate, I've been torn by two contending impulses throughout this saga, and Krauthammer's attack leaves me shifting back toward my initial one, which was to find it amusing to see TNR ripped to shreds by the same pack of attack dogs they spent years egging on.

CORRECTION: Krauthammer is a contributing editor, not a senior editor at TNR. Contributing editor is basically a non-salaries honorific that some magazines, TNR included, hand out to people. I apologize for the error.

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