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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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Panels I Did Not Attend

By Matthew Yglesias

Jul 1 2008, 1:17 PM ET Comment

My Apen schedule includes the following event:

Religion and the Modern World
Who Speaks for Islam?
Irshad Manji, Dalia Mogahed, Reuel Gerecht
Moderator: Jeffrey Goldberg


Wouldn't it be weird if the correct answer turned out to be that American Jews speak for Islam? Meanwhile, as a secular person myself I find myself very sympathetic to Irshad Manji's point of view but it's kind of odd to have only one practicing Muslim on the panel. Mogahed's work on Muslim public opinion is extremely useful factual information on a subject that tends to attract a lot of hot air.

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