Michael Lind

Michael Lind
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., 25 February 2015
Born	(1962-04-23) April 23, 1962 (age 54) Austin, Texas, United States
Nationality	American
Education	M.A., J.D.
Alma mater	University of Texas at Austin, Yale University, University of Texas Law School
Occupation	Journalist, historian, author

Michael Lind (born April 23, 1962) is an American writer. Lind is an ASU Future of War Fellow at New America in Washington, D.C., which he co-founded, a contributing editor of Politico and The National Interest and a columnist for Salon. Lind was a guest lecturer at Harvard Law School and has taught at Johns Hopkins and Virginia Tech. He has also been an editor or staff writer at The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and The New Republic. Lind has published a number of books on U.S. history, political economy, foreign policy, and politics as well as fiction, poetry and children’s literature.

Lind was born in Austin, Texas, a fifth-generation native of the state. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with honors in English and History (Plan II). In 1985 he received a Master of Arts degree in International Relations from Yale University and, in 1988, a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Texas Law School. Lind moved to Washington, where after working as Assistant to the Director of the U.S. State Department’s Center for the Study of Foreign Affairs in 1990–91 he became Executive Editor of The National Interest from 1991–94. From 1994–98 he lived in Manhattan and worked for Harper’s Magazine, The New Republic and The New Yorker. In 1998 he became Washington Editor of Harper’s Magazine and moved to Washington, where in the same year he, Sherle Schwenninger and Walter Russell Mead co-founded the New America Foundation with Ted Halstead, with whom Lind co-authored The Radical Center: The Future of American Politics.