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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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Ron Paul's Money, Rudy's Crooked Friends

By Matthew Yglesias

Nov 14 2007, 7:55 AM ET Comment

I have to say that I don't really understand Andrew's take on Ron Paul's contributions from white supremacists: "Here's an idea: when Giuliani disowns his abusing priest, his mafia-consigliere and his anti-Semitic nutcase, Ron Paul should send back the $500. Deal?" I don't really see the rationale for a quid-pro-quo here. If at the end of the day you want to decide that Paul would be a less pernicious president than Giuliani (my view as of yesterday morning) then fine, but the fact that Paul should return the contribution is totally independent of the fact that there are about a dozen things wrong with the Giuliani campaign.

Similarly, while it's interesting to note, as Glenn Greenwald's been doing, that there's a double-standard wherein Ron Paul's crazy views get him labeled "crazy" whereas Rudy Giuliani's crazy views get him labeled "tough" and Charles Krauthammer's crazy views get him a spot on The Washington Post op-ed page, it's still the case that these are all people with crazy views.

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