Michael Lind

Columnist at Tablet Magazine

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Trump is governing like an amateurish would-be dictator

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Michael Lind

On the issues of immigration, trade, and national security, US president Donald Trump’s broad objectives are generally the right ones. But in the first 100 days of his second, non-consecutive term, Trump’s approach to achieving his legitimate goals has mirrored his own flawed character in being both amateurish and mean-spirited. Polls show that the top issues for voters in the 2024 elections were immigration and the economy.
Trump is governing like an amateurish would-be dictator

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Michael Lind
Left and Right get equality wrong

3 weeks ago | unherd.com | Michael Lind

DEIDonald TrumpEconomyJobsMeritocracyPoliticsUniversitiesUSWorking class In his second term, President Trump has promised to make America meritocratic again.
With tariffs, Trump wants to restore American industry destroyed by decades of unfair trade

1 month ago | nypost.com | Michael Lind

The Trump administration is set to begin tariffs on "Liberation Day" this week. Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Will “Liberation Day” — Wednesday, when the Trump administration unrolls its new tariff policy — be remembered, like Dec. 7, 1941, as a “day of infamy”?
Michael Lind: Why Tariffs Are Good

2 months ago | thefp.com | Michael Lind

Donald Trump is back—and so is the tariff. “It’s a beautiful word, isn’t it?” the president quipped before the joint session of Congress on Tuesday—so beautiful that he referenced tariffs 17 more times in his address.
Why Tariffs Are Good

2 months ago | tabletmag.com | Michael Lind

Donald Trump is back—and so is the tariff. “It’s a beautiful word, isn’t it?” the president quipped before the joint session of Congress on Tuesday—so beautiful that he referenced tariffs 17 more times in his address. In the short time since his second inauguration on Jan.
Post-racial nations are the future

2 months ago | unherd.com | Michael Lind

American immigrationassimilationEthnic conflictethnicityRacerestofworldSocietyTucker Carlson After a generation in which globalisation was supposed to be the future, nationalism is back — including in its hideous forms that peg national belonging to arbitrary racial categories. Consider a recent rant from Tucker Carlson, in which the Former Fox News host mused: “Every other group in the world has the right to its own homeland, except white people? Like, what?
The roots of Trump's realpolitik Uncle Sam always drives a hard bargain

2 months ago | lucianne.com | Michael Lind

Original ArticlePosted By: Moritz55, 3/3/2025 2:55:38 PMPresident Trump's attempt to end the war in Ukraine has enraged liberal internationalists on both sides of the Atlantic.
The roots of Trump’s realpolitik

2 months ago | unherd.com | Michael Lind

Abraham LincolnChinaChurchillDonald TrumpFDRRussiateddy rooseveltUkraineUSVladamir PutinWarWoodrow WilsonXi Jinping President Trump’s attempt to end the war in Ukraine has enraged liberal internationalists on both sides of the Atlantic.
What comes after liberalism?

2 months ago | thespectator.com | Michael Lind |Stuart Jeffries |Michael Taube |Joel Kotkin

If the nightmare of anticommunists during the Cold War was an endless future of totalitarian terror, the nightmare of today’s critics of liberalism is an endless future of constant social upheaval and atomization as a result of unchecked markets and radical individualism. Not a boot stamping on a human face forever, but a high-tech appliance in need of the latest upgrades — forever.

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