Atrios
Atrios is the author of the popular liberal weblog Eschaton, which receives an average of over 100,000 hits per day. He is also a regular commentator on The Majority Report and lives in Philadelphia.
Atrios's real name is Duncan Black. He holds a PhD in economics from Brown University. He previously worked at the London School of Economics, the Université catholique de Louvain, the University of California at Irvine, and recently, Bryn Mawr College. Black is now a Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America.
For a long time Atrios, who apparently emerged from the Internet forums of The Well, remained pseudononymous and rumors suggested he was actually a high school gym teacher. During the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, he received his job at Media Matters for America and revealed himself to be Duncan Black.