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Michael Lind

Michael Lind is a professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, a columnist for Tablet, and a fellow at New America. His most recent book is 'The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite'.

Articles by Michael Lind

A 1911 cartoon showing John Pierpont Morgan, then one of the wealthiest men in the world.
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Will Trump’s Golden Age be a Gilded one?

The claim that Trump represents a resurgence of the ruthless capitalism of the Gilded Age is propaganda, not history. Trump’s blend of economic nationalism and realpolitik more clo..

Michael LindFebruary 5, 2025
Abandoned factory in Detroit
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Globalisation: why it went into retreat

Thanks to cold war, hot war, and the revived quest of many nations for a degree of industrial self-sufficiency, free market globalisation has peaked for the foreseeable future...

Michael LindAugust 4, 2022
A construction worker in Washington, 1962, framed by the Capitol Building
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American democracy can help fix America’s broken society

Political, economic and cultural power is concentrated in a new national oligarchy that creates resentment. Responsible leadership, of the kind seen in the mid-20th century, is nee..

Michael LindJanuary 20, 2021