Matthew Lee "Matt" Welch (born July 31, 1968) is an American blogger, journalist, andlibertarian political pundit. Welch was born in Bellflower, California and raised in Long Beach, California. Since 2008, he has been the editor-in-chief at the monthly libertarian journal, Reason. From 2006 to 2007, he was an editorial page editor for the Los Angeles Times. In the late 1990s, he wrote for Tabloid.Net, along with Tim Blair and Ken Layne, now a writer for Gawker.