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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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Best Sellers

By Matthew Yglesias

Sep 17 2007, 6:33 PM ET Comment

I was a bit distressed to learn from Justin Logan that World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism by Norman Podhoretz is Amazon.com best-selling book in the Islamic section. It's also the number two book in world history (number one is by Naomi Klein which I'm not too thrilled with either, but I doubt her ideas would lead to nearly the sort of bloodshed of a Podhoretz).

Even more disturbing, though, is what follows Podhoretz on the Islamic history list. Number two is Robert Spencer's The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam, number three is The Truth About Muhammad: Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion, and number four is The Day of Islam: The Annihilation of America and the Western World.

Reza Aslan's book eventually checks in at number five, but it seems that insofar as Americans are interested in Islam what they want is some good, old-fashioned Muslim-bashing. That can't bode well for the future of our foreign policy.

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