About Matt

Matthew Yglesias is a Staff Writer at The American Prospect. Currently, he is on leave working on his as-yet untitled book about the Democratic Party's search for a post-9/11 foreign policy that will be published by John Wiley & Sons sometime after he finishes writing it. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Slate, Moment, and other publications. He is a frequent commentator on radio programs around the nation and at one point was an infrequent television commentator until he said the cable news networks were doing "a terrible job" of covering the Terry Schiavo story live on MSNBC. Since that time, he has appeared on what he was assured was a major television network in South Korea. He lives in Washington, DC with various roommates and their dogs.

Before starting at the Prospect, Matt studied philosophy at Harvard where he was editor in chief of The Harvard Independent, a campus alternative weekly. In January 2002 he launched the first version of his eponymous blog which has wandered through various formats and URLs before landing here.