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Over at the Washington Post, he quotes author and scholar Michael Lind, who asks, “If socialism is discredited by the failure of communist regimes in the real world, why isn't libertarianism discredited by the absence of any libertarian regimes in the ...

Michael Lind, the independent-minded scholar, posed one such question last week about libertarianism that I hope will shake up the political world. It's important because many in the new generation of conservative politicians declare libertarianism as ...

A good place to start is the New America Foundation's recent report “Expanded Social Security: A Plan to Increase Retirement Security for All Americans” by Michael Lind, Steven Hill, Robert Hiltonsmith and Joshua Freedman. The authors show that the two ...

A good place to start is the New America Foundation's recent report, “Expanded Social Security: A Plan to Increase Retirement Security for All Americans” by Michael Lind, Steven Hill, Robert Hiltonsmith and Joshua Freedman. The authors show that the ...

This has led some to call the bombing “blowback” for American intervention in the Middle East and South Asia. Michael Lind argues that the Tsarnaevs might best be understood as “sincere Islamist revolutionaries, like the thousands of others who have ...

... to come and still have money left over. Those additional revenues could be used to expand Social Security benefits through a guaranteed, fixed pension, as recommended by Michael Lind, Joshua Freeman, and Steven Hill of the New America Foundation.

“Nothing could be a greater threat to the Southern cheap-labor economic strategy than universal, standardized federal social insurance,” author Michael Lind of the New America Foundation has written. “In order to maximize the dependence of Southern ...

In a sensible proposal released by the New America Foundation, Michael Lind, Steven Hill, Robert Hiltonsmith and Joshua Freedman call for adding a supplement to Social Security that would guarantee all retirees about 60 percent of their average wage in ...

Executive Summary
The conventional wisdom about Social Security is profoundly misguided. According to today’s mistaken consensus, the U.S. as a society cannot afford to allocate the money to pay for the present level of Social Security benefits for retirees in future generations. The solution, it is widely argued, is to cut benefits – either directly by means-testing or indirectly by raising the retirement age or allowing inflation to erode their real value over time. In this narrative, tax-favored private savings vehicles like 401(k)s and IRAs should be expanded in order to compensate for the allegedly necessary cuts in Social Security.

As noted by Michael Lind, formerly of the Heritage Foundation and cofounder of the New America Foundation, 20th-century "utility capitalism" targeted prudent regulation to shape and grow infrastructure sectors including energy utilities, transportation ...

Last month, Michael Lind ordered us to Stop pretending cyberspace exists, calling the concept of cyberspace an idea that makes you dumber the moment you learn of it. The security consultant Alec Muffett has also complained about "cyberspace" for more ...

Michael Lind's review of Charles R. Morris's “Dawn of Innovation” (Feb. 3) shares Morris's blindness to slavery as an engine of American economic development. Yes, Americans were, in Lind's words, “largely born free.” But that freedom included the ...