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 an MA in International Relations from Yale University and a JD from the University of Texas Law School in 1988. 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.
Lind has examined and defended the tradition of American democratic nationalism associated with Alexander Hamilton in a series of books, including The Next American Nation (1995), Hamilton’s Republic (1997), What Lincoln Believed (2004) and Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States (2012). Lind has also written two books on U.S. foreign policy, The American Way of Strategy (2006) and Vietnam: The Necessary War (1999). A former neoconservative in the tradition of New Deal liberalism, Lind criticized the American Right in Up From Conservatism: Why the Right is Wrong for America (1996) and Made in Texas: George W. Bush and the Southern Takeover of American Politics (2004).
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas is acting rationally on behalf of his constituency—the surburban and exurban white local notables of Texas and other states, whom the demagogic Senator seems to confuse with “the American people.”
And whom the author seems to confuse with “that rabble”.
At least someone is acting on behalf of his constituency!
Instead of following party orders passed down from on high.
So, in other words, he’s yet another Ivy League snob who is making his money by scribbling nonsense and snot for other wanna-be snobs?
And, quite frankly, anyone who worked for _Harpers_ has pretty much told everyone by doing so that he thinks his poop doesn’t stink. What a tedious bunch of pecksniffs those clowns are.
From what I read (maybe I missed it) he never mentioned anything about the tea party’s belief in running the country by its own rule book (the constitution). Never mentioned creeping socialism, crony capitalism, and gov’t control through regulatory agencies. No mention of the second amendment or using global warming as a political tool to make americans subject to more government regulation and making the poor (especially) even poorer. And yet he claims to understand the tea party.....right.