Every president asserts that the next trade treaty will turn America into an export powerhouse, but that’s just not true.
Michael Lind
Michael Lind is policy director of the Economic Growth Program at the New America Foundation. His most recent book is Parallel Lives: Poems.
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Democracy Without People
Is citizenship possible without nationalism? Following Jurgen Habermas, Jan-Werner Muller argues that “constitutional patriotism” is a viable alternative.
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From Fantasy to Fiasco
The convergence of conservative nationalists and neoconservatives within the Bush administration, and the deadly fantasies it spawned.
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The Imperial Fallacy
Is the United States an empire, a hegemon, or what? And whatever happened to the idea of the U.S. as an exemplary liberal democracy?
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Share the Credit
Why extending income tax credits to payroll tax payers should be the next big idea in American politics — politically unassailable, progressive economics on a grand scale.
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The Alternative to Empire
In the October print issue of the Prospect, James Lindsay reviewed two new books offering alternative progressive foreign policy visions — Michael Lind’s The American Way of Strategy and Anatol Lieven and John Hulsman’s Ethical Realism. Today, those books’ authors reply to Lindsay. Lind’s response is below. See Lieven and Hulsman’s response here. — James […]
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Right to Nowhere
Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed The Reagan Legacy by Bruce Bartlett (Doubleday, 310 pages, $26.00) Even before it was published, Bruce Bartlett’s Impostor had a dramatic effect: It cost Bartlett his job as a policy analyst at a conservative think tank, the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), based […]
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Mapquest.Dem
Is the Democratic Party becoming the New England party? In 2004, the candidates who dominated the Democratic presidential primaries, beginning with the one in New Hampshire, were Howard Dean of Vermont and John Kerry of Massachusetts. In 2004, as in 1988, the Democrats nominated a liberal Massachusetts politician to run against a conservative member of […]
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Spheres of Affluence
The fantasy of free trade still commands broad allegiance despite mounting evidence that it’s not optimal for either economic growth or national interest.
