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Matthew Yglesias - Matthew Yglesias is a fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
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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.

Worst Post Ever

By Matthew Yglesias
Nov 4 2007, 11:27 AM ET Comment

Kevin Drum has the nominations up for the all-time wingnuttiest blog post competition. In my view, Lee Siegel's "Origins of Blogofascism" is probably the worst work up there in large part because it doesn't even reflect any discernable point of view beyond Siegel's egomania and self-regard. It's not, however, the wingnuttiest post by any means. For wingnuttery, I think it's simply not possible to surpass Steven Den Beste, an internet figure people who've taken up blog reading just in the past two or three years may not be familiar with.

Kevin's chosen example of Den Bestism is "It's the Waiting that Wears" but I actually think Den Best outdid himself with "Suppose There Was Treachery" in which he contemplates the possibility of the United States going to war with France and Germany over the Iraq crisis: "It's evident that no matter how it developed it would be really, really bad. Even the best plausible case outcome would be a catastrophe." And, indeed, it would!

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