Lind, Michael (1962–)

A PROLIFIC WRITER and the Whitehead Senior Fellow at the New American Foundation, Michael Lind serves as co-director of the American Strategy Project. Lind's articles have been published in such prestigious publications as the New Yorker, Harper's, and New Republic. Identifying himself as a fifth-generation Texan, Lind spent most of his early life, including his undergraduate years, in the Lone Star State. He first left Texas in the 1980s to study foreign policy at Yale University.

In 1996, Lind received national attention for his scathing attack on multiculturalism and its opponents in The Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolution. Lind's attack on conservatism was expanded that same year with the publication of Up from Conservatism: Why The Right Is Wrong for ...