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2005-07-23T18:40:00.000-07:00

about michael phillips|

Michael is a member of the class of 2008 at the Emory University School of Law. Previously, he earned a master's degree with distinction from King's College, University of London in 2005. He has served with the offices of President William Jefferson Clinton and United States Senator Christopher Dodd, and with the policy organizations PolicyLink and the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. He was an assistant to 9/11 Commission member John Lehman in his private office, a grave shift security guard at the Mohegan Sun Casino, a paver with a tarring company and a gas station attendant at the Mobil station on West Main in Norwich, Connecticut.

Michael graduated from New York University in 2004 with a bachelor's degree in politics, where he was editor-in-chief of The New York University Journal of Human Rights and president of the NYU College Democrats.

In the summer of 2001, Michael traveled throughout Pakistan with a local human rights organization, researching human rights, terrorism, and politics. In the spring of 2004, Michael asked John Kerry if he was cool on MTV.

[The next day, Jon Stewart made fun of Michael for it on the Daily Show.]

From 2002 to 2005, he was the author of Michael Phillips is Tough on Terrorism, a blog on policy, politics, and national security. He was also a creative director of Heartbreaking Industries from 2005 to 2006.

Michael is from Norwich, Connecticut, a small city in the southeast known as the Rose of New England. Michael Phillips has had a few recent adventures at Emory Law. Wherever he is, he is available at michael.phillips@gmail.com.

2005-07-22T18:50:00.000-07:00

ALL THINGS GO.

It is time for me to leave the internet. When I first started writing, I had hopes of creating a place online where friends old and new could find me. I thought it would help me practice my writing and consider the issues of the day. These things have happened. I've even made a small fortune on Google ads. But as this blog has grown, I've grown into a new fragility.

Writing online is infinitely public and infinitely reproducible. Even as I've invested the time in it, I am not sure I've come to terms with that. And as the days go by, I find the cost of writing too great, the joy too fleeting. I'd rather do something else.

Still, as time goes on, I cannot help but to think that our lives are moving online and that I'll be a fearful or lazy Luddite if I do not, also, have my own confessional and social space. So perhaps I will return - here or at heartbreaking.org.

In the meantime, I'll use this space to keep those who have lost touch in touch. I thank everyone for reading, for writing. I'm going to step into the real world now and say hello. Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

2005-07-22T17:46:00.000-07:00

"A thick-haired man."
Remembering fondly when I was [almost] the talk of the town in The New Yorker. The New York Times University Wire covering my being a NYU Student Leader on Staff for Former President Clinton. And when the New York Times called me "a thick-haired man." And Esquire on whether Kerry is cool - per my question.
shameless post complete.

A Google Bomb Of Sorts.

2003-03-18T09:12:00.000-08:00

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