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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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Freedom Isn't Free

By Matthew Yglesias

Dec 18 2007, 8:16 AM ET Comment



This is a bit hokey, but I was walking down Constitution Avenue yesterday when I found myself noticing an inscription on the National Archives building that read: "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." Coming on the day that a terrible surveillance bill got over forty votes in the Senate, it struck me as incredibly sad. We're compromising important parts of the meaning of America.

Fortunately, it seems that Chris Dodd's moves paid off and the bill has been pulled until the New Year. We'll see what happens then.

UPDATE: Of course I mean that the terrible bill got over seventy votes, not "over forty" (except in the sense that seventy is greater than forty).

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