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Michael Lind

December 15, 2023

Michael Lind (born April 23, 1962) is an American writer and academic. He has explained and defended the tradition of American democratic nationalism in a number of books, beginning with The Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolution (1995). He is currently a professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.

Michael Lind
Lind in 2009
Born (1962-04-23) April 23, 1962 (age 61)
Austin, Texas, U.S.
EducationUniversity of Texas at Austin (BA)
Yale University (MA)
University of Texas Law School (JD)
Occupation(s)Writer, academic

Early life edit

Lind is a fifth-generation Central Texan, of Swedish, English, Scottish and possibly German Jewish descent.[1] Born in Austin, he was educated in Austin public schools. His father, Charles Ray Lind, was an assistant attorney general of Texas, and his mother, Marcia Hearon Lind, was a public school teacher and principal. He attended the Plan II Liberal Arts Honors Program at the University of Texas at Austin, graduating in 1982 with honors. He received a master's degree in International Relations from Yale University in 1985 and a J.D. from the University of Texas Law School in 1988.[2][3]

Career edit

Lind worked for The Heritage Foundation's State Department Assessment Project from 1988 to 1990.[4] After working as assistant to the director of the U.S. 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. He was an editor at Harper's Magazine from 1994 to 1995, a senior editor at The New Republic from 1995 to 1996,[5][6] a staff writer at The New Yorker from 1996 to 1997,[7][8][9] and Washington Correspondent for Harper's Magazine from 1998 to 1999.[10]

In 1999 he co-founded the New America Foundation (now New America) with Ted Halstead, Sherle Schwenninger, and Walter Russell Mead. At New America from 1999 to 2017 he was at various times Whitehead Senior Fellow, co-founder and co-director of the American Strategy Project, co-director of the Next Social Contract Initiative and an ASU Future of War Fellow.[11]

Since 2017, he has been a professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.[12] He has taught courses on American democracy, American political economy and American foreign policy at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Virginia Tech's Arlington campus.[11]

Views edit

 
From left to right: Michael Lind, Ian Morris, Lawrence Freedman, Philip Bobbitt; "What Do Lessons from History Tell Us About the Future of War?" panel discussion at New America Foundation first annual Future of War conference, Washington, D.C., February 25, 2015

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 American foreign policy, The American Way of Strategy (2006) and Vietnam: The Necessary War (1999). A former neoconservative in the tradition of New Deal liberalism; with the original neoconservatives being anti-Soviet liberals who drifted to the right, 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). According to an article published in The New York Times in 1995, Lind "defies the usual political categories of left and right, liberal and conservative."[13]

In 1995, Lind criticized the systems of jury trials and common law, arguing that civil law trials are superior to common law trials, and that the civil law model of a mixed panel of professional and lay judges is preferable to juries. On the history of trial by jury in the United States, he wrote that "from independence until the civil rights revolution, the jury was a means by which white bigots legally lynched Indians, blacks and Asians (or acquitted their white murderers). Today urban black juries all too often put race above justice in the same manner." He argued that among other things, the process of discovery was much fairer in a civil law system.[14]

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 American 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". He has 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".[15]

Lind is an outspoken critic of libertarianism. He had 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?[16]

Works edit

Nonfiction edit

  • (2020) The New Class War: Saving Democracy From The Managerial Elite. Penguin Random House. ISBN 9780593083697.[17]
  • (2018) Big Is Beautiful: Debunking the Myth of Small Business (with Robert D. Atkinson). MIT Press. ISBN 9780262037709.[18][19]
  • (2012) Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States. HarperCollins. ISBN 9780062097729.[20][21]
  • (2006) The American Way of Strategy: U.S. Foreign Policy and The American Way of Life. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198042143.[22][23]
  • (2005) What Lincoln Believed: The Values and Convictions of America's Greatest President. Doubleday. ISBN 9780385507394.[24]
  • (2003) Made in Texas: George W. Bush and the Southern Takeover of American Politics. Basic Books. ISBN 9780465041213.[25]
  • (2001) The Radical Center: The Future of American Politics (with Ted Halstead). Doubleday. ISBN 9780385500456.[26][27]
  • (1999) Vietnam: The Necessary War: A Reinterpretation of America's Most Disastrous Military Conflict. Free Press. ISBN 9780684842547.[28][29]
  • (1997) Hamilton's Republic: Readings in the American Democratic Nationalist Tradition (editor). Free Press. ISBN 9780684831602.[30]
  • (1996) Up From Conservatism: Why the Right is Wrong for America. Free Press. ISBN 9780684827612.[31][7]
  • (1995) The Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolution. Free Press. ISBN 9780029191033.[32][33]

Fiction and poetry edit

References edit

  1. ^ Lind, Michael (2009). Made In Texas: George W. Bush And The Southern Takeover Of American Politics. Basic Books. pp. x–xi. ISBN 9780786728299.
  2. ^ "Lindependence". Texas Monthly. March 1997.
  3. ^ "Power Ego Writer". The Baltimore Sun. October 2, 1996.
  4. ^ "Heritage urges limit on State Department role in arms control". Defense Daily. July 6, 1989.
  5. ^ "Not in His Right Mind". The Washington Post. August 6, 1995.
  6. ^ "A Diehard Revisionist Looks at Vietnam". Hartford Courant. December 19, 1999.
  7. ^ a b "Zeal of a Convert". The New York Times. August 4, 1996.
  8. ^ "He Pledges Allegiance to No Party". Los Angeles Times. September 19, 1996.
  9. ^ "Michael Lind". The Weekly Standard. July 8, 1996.
  10. ^ Toal, Gerard (May 5, 2008). "The Hamiltonian Nationalist: A Conversation with Michael Lind". Geopolitical Discourse. 13 (1): 169–180. doi:10.1080/14650040701783425. S2CID 143665226.
  11. ^ a b "Michael Lind". New America. Retrieved August 15, 2019.
  12. ^ "Michael Lind". The University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved August 15, 2019.
  13. ^ "An American Manifesto for a Desirable Future" (review of Lind, Michael, The Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolution). Bernstein, Richard, The New York Times, July 5, 1995.
  14. ^ "The Criminal Jury Should Be Abolished | Encyclopedia.com".
  15. ^ Lind, Michael (May 17, 2015). "The Case for American Nationalism". The National Interest.
  16. ^ Lind, Michael. (June 4, 2013.). "The Question Libertarians Just Can't Answer." Salon.
  17. ^ "The New Class War". Penguin Random House. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
  18. ^ "Big Is Beautiful". Retrieved August 14, 2019.
  19. ^ "Review: 'Big Is Beautiful' Questions the Virtues of Small Business". The New York Times. April 30, 2018.
  20. ^ "Land of Promise". Retrieved August 14, 2019.
  21. ^ "Market Values". The New York Times. May 24, 2012.
  22. ^ The American Way of Strategy. Oxford University Press. July 30, 2008. ISBN 978-0-19-534141-6.
  23. ^ "Capsule Review: The American Way of Strategy". Foreign Affairs. March 1, 2007.
  24. ^ "What Lincoln Believed". Kirkus Review. May 17, 2005.
  25. ^ "The Really Deep Southern Strategy". The New York Times. January 12, 2003.
  26. ^ "The Radical Center". Penguin Random House.
  27. ^ "The Radical Center". Kirkus Reviews. October 1, 2001.
  28. ^ Vietnam: The Necessary War. Simon & Schuster. July 16, 2002. ISBN 9780684870274. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
  29. ^ "A Score Card for Vietnam: It Was Johnson 1, Nixon 0". The New York Times. October 20, 1999.
  30. ^ "Capsule Review: Hamilton's Republic". Foreign Affairs. March 1, 1998.
  31. ^ Up from Conservatism. Simon & Schuster. July 15, 1997. ISBN 9780684831862. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
  32. ^ Next American Nation. Simon & Schuster. June 15, 2010. ISBN 9781451603095. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
  33. ^ "One Nation After All". The New York Times. June 25, 1995.
  34. ^ "Parallel Lives". Etruscan Press. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
  35. ^ "Bluebonnet Girl". Kirkus Reviews. April 1, 2003.
  36. ^ "When You Are Someone Else". Oak Knoll. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
  37. ^ "La Victoria de Santa Anna: The Alamo". Los Angeles Times. March 9, 1997.
  38. ^ "The 'P' Word". The New York Times. October 20, 1996.

External links edit

  •   Media related to Michael Lind at Wikimedia Commons
  • Appearances on C-SPAN

December 15, 2023
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Michael Lind born April 23 1962 is an American writer and academic He has explained and defended the tradition of American democratic nationalism in a number of books beginning with The Next American Nation The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolution 1995 He is currently a professor at the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin Michael LindLind in 2009Born 1962 04 23 April 23 1962 age 61 Austin Texas U S EducationUniversity of Texas at Austin BA Yale University MA University of Texas Law School JD Occupation s Writer academic Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Views 4 Works 4 1 Nonfiction 4 2 Fiction and poetry 5 References 6 External linksEarly life editLind is a fifth generation Central Texan of Swedish English Scottish and possibly German Jewish descent 1 Born in Austin he was educated in Austin public schools His father Charles Ray Lind was an assistant attorney general of Texas and his mother Marcia Hearon Lind was a public school teacher and principal He attended the Plan II Liberal Arts Honors Program at the University of Texas at Austin graduating in 1982 with honors He received a master s degree in International Relations from Yale University in 1985 and a J D from the University of Texas Law School in 1988 2 3 Career editLind worked for The Heritage Foundation s State Department Assessment Project from 1988 to 1990 4 After working as assistant to the director of the U S 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 He was an editor at Harper s Magazine from 1994 to 1995 a senior editor at The New Republic from 1995 to 1996 5 6 a staff writer at The New Yorker from 1996 to 1997 7 8 9 and Washington Correspondent for Harper s Magazine from 1998 to 1999 10 In 1999 he co founded the New America Foundation now New America with Ted Halstead Sherle Schwenninger and Walter Russell Mead At New America from 1999 to 2017 he was at various times Whitehead Senior Fellow co founder and co director of the American Strategy Project co director of the Next Social Contract Initiative and an ASU Future of War Fellow 11 Since 2017 he has been a professor at the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin 12 He has taught courses on American democracy American political economy and American foreign policy at Harvard Johns Hopkins and Virginia Tech s Arlington campus 11 Views edit nbsp From left to right Michael Lind Ian Morris Lawrence Freedman Philip Bobbitt What Do Lessons from History Tell Us About the Future of War panel discussion at New America Foundation first annual Future of War conference Washington D C February 25 2015Lind 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 American foreign policy The American Way of Strategy 2006 and Vietnam The Necessary War 1999 A former neoconservative in the tradition of New Deal liberalism with the original neoconservatives being anti Soviet liberals who drifted to the right 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 According to an article published in The New York Times in 1995 Lind defies the usual political categories of left and right liberal and conservative 13 In 1995 Lind criticized the systems of jury trials and common law arguing that civil law trials are superior to common law trials and that the civil law model of a mixed panel of professional and lay judges is preferable to juries On the history of trial by jury in the United States he wrote that from independence until the civil rights revolution the jury was a means by which white bigots legally lynched Indians blacks and Asians or acquitted their white murderers Today urban black juries all too often put race above justice in the same manner He argued that among other things the process of discovery was much fairer in a civil law system 14 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 American 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 He has 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 15 Lind is an outspoken critic of libertarianism He had 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 16 Works editNonfiction edit 2020 The New Class War Saving Democracy From The Managerial Elite Penguin Random House ISBN 9780593083697 17 2018 Big Is Beautiful Debunking the Myth of Small Business with Robert D Atkinson MIT Press ISBN 9780262037709 18 19 2012 Land of Promise An Economic History of the United States HarperCollins ISBN 9780062097729 20 21 2006 The American Way of Strategy U S Foreign Policy and The American Way of Life Oxford University Press ISBN 9780198042143 22 23 2005 What Lincoln Believed The Values and Convictions of America s Greatest President Doubleday ISBN 9780385507394 24 2003 Made in Texas George W Bush and the Southern Takeover of American Politics Basic Books ISBN 9780465041213 25 2001 The Radical Center The Future of American Politics with Ted Halstead Doubleday ISBN 9780385500456 26 27 1999 Vietnam The Necessary War A Reinterpretation of America s Most Disastrous Military Conflict Free Press ISBN 9780684842547 28 29 1997 Hamilton s Republic Readings in the American Democratic Nationalist Tradition editor Free Press ISBN 9780684831602 30 1996 Up From Conservatism Why the Right is Wrong for America Free Press ISBN 9780684827612 31 7 1995 The Next American Nation The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolution Free Press ISBN 9780029191033 32 33 Fiction and poetry edit 2007 Parallel Lives Etruscan Press ISBN 9780974599588 34 2003 Bluebonnet Girl Henry Holt ISBN 9780805065732 35 2002 When You Are Someone Else Aralia Press 36 1997 The Alamo An Epic Houghton Mifflin ISBN 9780395827581 37 1996 Powertown HarperCollins ISBN 9780060175108 38 References edit Lind Michael 2009 Made In Texas George W Bush And The Southern Takeover Of American Politics Basic Books pp x xi ISBN 9780786728299 Lindependence Texas Monthly March 1997 Power Ego Writer The Baltimore Sun October 2 1996 Heritage urges limit on State Department role in arms control Defense Daily July 6 1989 Not in His Right Mind The Washington Post August 6 1995 A Diehard Revisionist Looks at Vietnam Hartford Courant December 19 1999 a b Zeal of a Convert The New York Times August 4 1996 He Pledges Allegiance to No Party Los Angeles Times September 19 1996 Michael Lind The Weekly Standard July 8 1996 Toal Gerard May 5 2008 The Hamiltonian Nationalist A Conversation with Michael Lind Geopolitical Discourse 13 1 169 180 doi 10 1080 14650040701783425 S2CID 143665226 a b Michael Lind New America Retrieved August 15 2019 Michael Lind The University of Texas at Austin Retrieved August 15 2019 An American Manifesto for a Desirable Future review of Lind Michael The Next American Nation The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolution Bernstein Richard The New York Times July 5 1995 The Criminal Jury Should Be Abolished Encyclopedia com Lind Michael May 17 2015 The Case for American Nationalism The National Interest Lind Michael June 4 2013 The Question Libertarians Just Can t Answer Salon The New Class War Penguin Random House Retrieved August 14 2019 Big Is Beautiful Retrieved August 14 2019 Review Big Is Beautiful Questions the Virtues of Small Business The New York Times April 30 2018 Land of Promise Retrieved August 14 2019 Market Values The New York Times May 24 2012 The American Way of Strategy Oxford University Press July 30 2008 ISBN 978 0 19 534141 6 Capsule Review The American Way of Strategy Foreign Affairs March 1 2007 What Lincoln Believed Kirkus Review May 17 2005 The Really Deep Southern Strategy The New York Times January 12 2003 The Radical Center Penguin Random House The Radical Center Kirkus Reviews October 1 2001 Vietnam The Necessary War Simon amp Schuster July 16 2002 ISBN 9780684870274 Retrieved August 14 2019 A Score Card for Vietnam It Was Johnson 1 Nixon 0 The New York Times October 20 1999 Capsule Review Hamilton s Republic Foreign Affairs March 1 1998 Up from Conservatism Simon amp Schuster July 15 1997 ISBN 9780684831862 Retrieved August 14 2019 Next American Nation Simon amp Schuster June 15 2010 ISBN 9781451603095 Retrieved August 14 2019 One Nation After All The New York Times June 25 1995 Parallel Lives Etruscan Press Retrieved August 14 2019 Bluebonnet Girl Kirkus Reviews April 1 2003 When You Are Someone Else Oak Knoll Retrieved August 14 2019 La Victoria de Santa Anna The Alamo Los Angeles Times March 9 1997 The P Word The New York Times October 20 1996 External links edit nbsp Media related to Michael Lind at Wikimedia Commons Appearances on C SPAN Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Michael Lind amp oldid 1188832299, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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