Consolidating Yglesias

It’s the end of an era, of sorts, and the beginning of another. Matthew Yglesias , the New York-born, Harvard-educated, District-based, recently-bearded, mid-20s American Prospect contributor and one of the first “famous for DC” bloggers, is removing himself from the three (!) blogs he’s been writing for more than a year now — to write a book and reopen his original site, MatthewYglesias.com . And it’s long overdue. Yglesias has long been a contributor to his employer’s blog, Tapped , and when Josh Marshall launched his TPM Cafe in early 2005, Yglesias was invited to be the only blogger with his own permanent subdomain . His original site ( moved to Typepad ) became a repository for discussion about the Washington Wizard...