Nationality American Role Writer | Name Michael Lind Occupation Journalist, Historian | |
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Born April 23, 1962 (age 62) ( 1962-04-23 ) Austin, Texas, U.S. Alma mater University of Texas at Austin, Yale University, University of Texas Law School Education University of Texas at Austin, University of Texas School of Law, Yale University Books Land of Promise, Vietnam: the Necessar, The Next American Nation, Up from Conservatism: Why the, The American Way of St Similar People Ted Halstead, Emmanuel Todd, Ales Debeljak, Eric Schmidt | ||
Organizations founded New America | ||
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Michael Lind (born April 23, 1962) is an American writer. He is an ASU Future of War Fellow at New America in Washington, DC, which he co-founded; a contributing editor of Politico and The National Interest; and a columnist for Salon. He was a guest lecturer at Harvard Law School and has taught at Johns Hopkins and Virginia Tech. He has also been an editor or staff writer at The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and The New Republic.
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- Early life
- Career
- Work
- References
He has published a number of books on US history, political economy, foreign policy, and politics as well as fiction, poetry, and children's literature.
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Early life
Lind was born in Austin, Texas. A fifth-generation Texan, he graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with honors in English and History (Plan II). In 1985, he received a Master of Arts degree in International Relations from Yale University and in 1988, he received Juris Doctor degree from the University of Texas Law School.
Career
Lind moved to Washington, DC, where he was Assistant to the Director of the US State Department's Center for the Study of Foreign Affairs from 1990 to 1991. He was Executive Editor of The National Interest from 1991 to 1994.
From 1994 to 1998, he lived in Manhattan and worked for Harper’s Magazine, The New Republic and The New Yorker. In 1998, he became Washington editor of Harper’s Magazine and moved to Washington, DC, where in the same year he, Sherle Schwenninger and Walter Russell Mead co-founded the New America Foundation with Ted Halstead, with whom Lind co-authored The Radical Center: The Future of American Politics.
Work
Lind has examined and defended the tradition of American democratic nationalism associated with Alexander Hamilton in a series of books, including The Next American Nation (1995), Hamilton’s Republic (1997), What Lincoln Believed (2004) and Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States (2012). Lind has also written two books on U.S. foreign policy, The American Way of Strategy (2006) and Vietnam: The Necessary War (1999). A former neoconservative in the tradition of New Deal liberalism, Lind criticized the American Right in Up From Conservatism: Why the Right is Wrong for America (1996) and Made in Texas: George W. Bush and the Southern Takeover of American Politics (2004). Lind has also published a novel, Powertown (1996), a narrative poem, The Alamo (1997), and a children’s book, Bluebonnet Girl (2004).
In May 2015, Lind argued for the adoption of "enlightened nationalism", also called "liberal nationalism" in which the United States "would combine its security strategy of offshore balancing with intelligent economic nationalism." Regarding NATO and other U.S. allies, a liberal nationalist foreign policy, Lind continued, "would shift much of the burden of the defense of its allies and protectorates to those countries themselves." Lind argued for "an immigration policy in the national interest would shift the emphasis from family reunification to skills . . . [and] enable long-term population growth . . . compatible with the economic integration and cultural assimilation of newcomers to the United States."
He as observed that of the 195 countries in the world today, none is fully a libertarian society:
If libertarianism was a good idea, wouldn't at least one country have tried it? Wouldn't there be at least one country, out of nearly two hundred, with minimal government, free trade, open borders, decriminalized drugs, no welfare state and no public education system?