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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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Wingnut Versus Wingnut

By Matthew Yglesias

Jan 31 2008, 8:26 AM ET Comment

Infighting sure is fun! John McCain hates capitalism, and Mark Steyn's inspired to almost touch an anti-militarist note:

Well, Kathryn, since most of the gang seems to have turned in early (too demoralized to opine?), I might as well chip in. I'm getting a bit tired of Senator McCain's anti-business shtick. The line about serving "for patriotism, not for profit" is pathetic. America spends more on its military than the next 35-40 biggest military spenders on the planet combined: Where does he think the money for that comes from?


To me what's galling here is that it's not as if McCain took some kind of vow of poverty. When he divorces his first wife he "gave her a generous settlement, including houses in Virginia and Florida and financial support for her ongoing medical treatments" before marrying a wealthy heiress. Nobody's running around disparaging McCain's military service; there doesn't seem to me a need for him to disparage the life choice of people who got their money by earning it.

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