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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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The Snob Factor

By Matthew Yglesias

Jul 9 2008, 11:42 AM ET Comment

Barack Obama thinks America's schools should be the best in the world, and that means doing as good a job as other countries do of teaching our children foreign languages. This, it seems, makes him a snob in the eyes of The Weekly Standard (via Julian Sanchez) where they apparently feel that a healthy respect for the common man requires a vote for John McCain and a willingness to settle for low-performing public services.

Don't hope for a better life, accept mediocrity!

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