Matt Zeitlin: Impetuous Young Whippersnapper

So, at 2 PM yesterday, Campus Progress’ new blog, Pushback, finally launched to the public. I’m one of 18 contributors, including blogosphere super star (and editor) Kay Steiger, editors Rob Anderson and Jesse Singal, as well as 14 other young people with resumes and experience far more impressive than mine.

I suggest (neigh, demand!) that yall go read, blogroll it, RSS it, comment on it, link to it etc. Considering that liberals and progressives have been complaining for eons that young people don’t care about politics anymore AND that there aren’t progressive institutions to come up with good ideas and aggressively promote them, it would seem incumbent on them to give Pushback a looksee. Not only does it have young people writing about politics and culture from an explicitly progressive perspective, it’s also part of the Center For American Progress behemoth that is slowly coming to dominate progressive politics, and hopefully one day, the world.

I guess that I should note that some blogging will be moving over there. I haven’t quite figured out what the exact division of labor will be, but I do know that explicit campaign stuff will stay here, as well as posts with a more philosophical or historical bent that tend to meander. Don’t except volume here to fall by too much, and if there’s anything particularly interesting I write for PB, I’ll definitely link to it here. Of course, you should have already read it at Pushback.

And, since it’s so cool, here’s my bio video for the site.