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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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Thursday Vital Interests Blogging

By Matthew Yglesias

Aug 23 2007, 9:27 AM ET Comment

Rick Perlstein emails to recommend this Corey Robin essay as "the most brilliant thing" he's read about the rhetoric of American interests. I think you can't actually read it unless you're a London Review of Books subscriber (or someone emails the text to you), but I offer the suggestion as food for thought. It's called "Protocols of Machismo" and appeared in the 19 May 2005 issue.

My take is that the world really could use a brilliant examination of the rhetoric of "vital interests" in American political discourse but that Robin doesn't quite have the goods here. If others have suggestions for further reading on this topic, I'm interested.

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