Michael Lind

Michael Lind is Policy Director of the Economic Growth Program at the New America Foundation and author of The American Way of Strategy


Essays

Security

Beyond American Hegemony

| 05.01.07

The United States should abandon its futile attempt to secure global hegemony in favor of a concert-of-power foreign-policy strategy.

Economics

The Op-Ed History of America

| 09.01.94

Many American policymakers and scholars believe they have learned the lessons of nineteenth and twentieth-century history for U.S. foreign policy. Three such "lessons" dominate discussion: the Lesson of American Development; the Lesson of the Pax

Society

Realism and Its Rivals

| 12.01.93

To see realist strategies adopted even as they are denounced would be, in our view, no small success.

Reviews

Security

America Under the Caesars

| 06.28.10

Anti-interventionists allege our leaders traded a strong, austere republic for a weak and sprawling empire predicated on a military might that could not match our own ambitions. This narrative negates real threats and real victories.

Commentary

Politics

Gridlock with a Side of Activism

| 11.04.10

The Republican majority in the House doesn't mean foreign policy will change—much.

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May 23, 2013