Michael Lind is an American journalist and historian, currently the Whitehead Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation. Ideologically, he has gone from liberal (in his college years) to neoconservative (in graduate school and directly afterward) to radical centrist (present). He went to college at the University of Texas and graduate school at Yale University. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A historian is a person who studies history. ... The New America Foundation is a non-partisan, non-profit public policy institute and think tank located in Washington, DC which is attempting to promote innovative political solutions that transcend conventional party lines - what they call Radical centrist politics. ... Look up liberal on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Liberal may refer to: Politics: Liberalism American liberalism, a political trend in the USA Political progressivism, a political ideology that is for change, often associated with liberal movements Liberty, the condition of being free from control or restrictions Liberal Party, members of... Neoconservatism describes several distinct political ideologies which are considered new forms of conservatism. ... The term Radical Middle refers to a type of third way philosophy as well as an associated political movement, which defines itself by simultaneously affirming both sides of an apparently contradictory issue, whether that be Left-Right politics or a false dilemma. ... The University of Texas at Austin, often called UT or Texas, is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. ... Yale redirects here. ...
Bibliography
The Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolution, Free Press, 1995
Up From Conservatism: Why the Right is Wrong for America, Free Press, 1996
The Alamo: An Epic, Houghton Mifflin, 1997
Hamilton's Republic: Readings in the American Democratic Nationalist Tradition, Free Press, 1997 (editor)
Vietnam: The Necessary War: A Reinterpretation of America's Most Disastrous Military Conflict, Free Press, 1999
The Radical Center: The Future of American Politics, Doubleday, 2001 (co-authored with Ted Halstead)
Made in Texas: George W. Bush and the Southern Takeover of American Politics, Basic Books, 2003
What Lincoln Believed: The Values and Convictions of America’s Greatest President, Doubleday, 2005
Ted Halstead is the founder and president of the New America Foundation and the co-author, with Michael Lind, of The Radical Center: The Future of American Politics. ...
External links
Michael Lind Biography
TNR article: For a New Nationalism, by Lind and John Judis (article 10 of 27)
MichaelLind has always annoyed me. In the early 1990s, because I was so cool, I used to hang out a lot at the offices of The Public Interest, which is still the best hard-core (not in the smutty sense) public-policy magazine in America.
Lind told them precisely what they wanted to hear: that the Right is run by bigots, religious fanatics, and corrupted intellectuals addicted to the filthy lucre of nefarious but media-savvy foundations hell-bent on creating some form of theocracy.
Lind contends that the election’s religious rhetoric was a symptom of the bipartisan political elite’s ignorance of the blue-collar folks Lind knows so well (no doubt this reclusive author of a book-length epic poem on the Alamo hangs out with a lot of Teamsters).
MICHAELLIND: Despite its Western trappings, Texas has always been part of the South, which provided the ancestors of the majority of white Texans as well as the dominant culture into which newcomers of all races tend to be assimilated.
LIND: In my introduction, I note that the historical story I tell is largely one of "dead white males" in order to forestall criticism from the left that I have ignored the struggles of fls, Mexican-Americans and women for justice in Texas.
LIND: As a fifth-generation Texan, I must reluctantly concede that George W. Bush, born in Connecticut but raised in the Lone Star State, is a genuine Texan in his accent, his mannerisms, and his outlook on life.
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