Michael Lind

A surprising number of America’s most pressing problems can be solved with a single, simple solution: a national ID. So why don’t we have one?

No matter who wins or loses, we can look forward to four more years of Chicago on the Potomac

Working-class Americans say they’re voting for their interests. NPR apostles say they suffer from ‘white rage’ and ‘precarious manhood.’ Who’s right?

From Black Lives Matter, to climate change, to the war in Gaza, the demand to hire more identity studies faculty and consultants is a constant

Unchecked border-crossings, fading churches, disintegrating families, DEI deans and worthless degrees ensure that the American future will be miserable—and that those who will inherit it will be Democrats

The former president’s atomized, placeless definition of who we are is a recipe for national disintegration

For global elites, countries are merely exotic names for trade zones and labor camps, and citizenship has about as much ethical or emotional significance as a gym membership. Most Americans feel otherwise.

New York Times columnist tries to memory-hole his prior views on immigration

There’s a new strategy in town: If American voters don’t like what you are offering, import better voters.

The United Auto Workers are winning the battle, but have they already lost the war?

Our politicians are not too old—but their ideas are

Our antinomian elite’s war against tradition has become a war against the working class

How partisan lawfare threatens democracy

Partisan explanations for why birth rates are falling miss the true sources of a cross-cultural trend, and the possible solutions

The new global conflict with Russia and China is playing out like a game of 3D chess, with the U.S. up in some areas but losing in others

(and why you should be, too)

America needs a broad popular front to stop the revolution from above that is transforming the country

The U.S. is losing its economic advantage in a new era of global conflict

In America today, we have informal labor cartels for the college-educated elite, while private sector unions for the working class are all but annihilated

The midterm elections were a victory for status quo centrists in both parties

How the major institutions of American society all came to sing in the woke chorus, and what can be done about it

Cass Sunstein’s latest TED Talk of a book offers the kind of technocratic whimsy that left and right can agree to hate

The shape of the ark has been a puzzle for millennia. Until now.

The U.S. Census may add a ‘Middle Eastern and North African’ pan-Semitic racial category. What could possibly go wrong?

The two theories of American government—one fantasy, one reality

Who benefited from the obvious nonsense that became post-Cold War America’s trade, foreign, and federal deficit policies?

How the Foundation-NGO complex quashed innovative thinking and open debate, first on the American right and now on the center-left

We are living in a material world, after all

Having converted their own republic into a borderless credit union, Americans have to borrow other people’s national pride

The U.S. immigration system is a farce—and such small portions!

It’s within metro areas, not between the states

The iconoclastic gestures of the woke left bear an alarming resemblance to the excesses of the French Revolution

How a trash-talking neoliberal economist harmed America by vilifying strategic trade and industrial policy

The populist wave is receding, leaving neoliberal elites in charge of both parties and a beleaguered working class out in the cold

It would be a step in the right direction. But more is needed to replace America’s antiquated academic sweatshops with a modern enterprise.

A memo to current and aspiring Republican Party leaders

A memo to current and aspiring Democratic Party leaders

What a newly rediscovered thinker got right and wrong

The threat is private infrastructure, not all big business