A curated collection of Matthew Phillips' political essays, which were originally published on mondoweiss.net/ "A hugely-gifted young writer who contributed to us often... As readers of this site know, Matt was an incredibly mature young writer. He had a laser mind, great imagination, and a wide-ranging appetite for books, but it was his moral commitment that bound those talents into memorable pieces of writing. He had attended graduate school and worked as a bartender, but saw both those activities as getting in the way of his chief goal, leading a life of the mind."-PHILIP WEISS AND ADAM HOROWITZ, Editors of mondoweiss.net