Michael Lind

Michael Lind is the Whitehead Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation. With Ted Halstead, he is the author of The Radical Center: The Future of American Politics (Doubleday, 2001). He is also the author of Made in Texas: George W. Bush and the Southern Takeover of American Politics (New America Books/Basic, 2003). Mr. Lind has been an editor or staff writer for The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, and The New Republic. From 1991-94 he was executive editor of The National Interest. He has also been a guest lecturer at Harvard Law School. He has written for The Atlantic Monthly, Prospect, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Financial Times, and other leading publications, and has appeared on Crossfire, C-SPAN, National Public Radio, and The News Hour with Jim Lehrer.

Mr. Lind’s first three books of political journalism and history, The Next American Nation (1995), Up From Conservatism (1996) and Vietnam (1999), were all selected as New York Times Notable Books. He has also published several volumes of fiction and poetry, including The Alamo (1997), which the Los Angeles Times named as one of its Best Books of that year. Lind’s most recent book is a study of Abraham Lincoln, What Lincoln Believed: The Values and Convictions of America’s Greatest President, published by Doubleday in 2004.